Can You Tell the Difference Between the Real and the Fake?
China is a manufacturers dream, electronics factories left right and centre and cheap labour to boot. It seems though that these factories are less willing to work for the big companies as they are for themselves.
Fake phones in China are being made at a rate far greater than even the real manufacturers can cope with. In some cases fakes appear on the market before the original has even made it to Asia or even onto the market.
This presents problems for the bigger phone manufacturers such as LG. When the LG Chocolate was launched in China in May 2006 fakes had been available for some time. The phone had been released in Korea the previous November but LG had wanted to develop the phone for the Chinese market.
When the real phone finally did come out many people thought that the official LG phone was the fake. It shows how fast and efficient the manufacturers of fakes can be.
Its becoming a real problem for companies such as Sony, LG, Nokia and Samsung as their reputation and brand names are being damaged. In 2006 US Customs and Border Protection estimated that 21.3 million dollars worth of fakes were seized, Its big business. 81 percent was shipped from China.
If an item is popular it will most probably be subject to counterfeiting. MP3 players, games systems, mobile phones, portable hard drives and even batteries. The price of a counterfeit is usually less than 80 percent of the recommended retail price.
The big problem with fakes is safety, quality control and testing. Many of the interfaces are littered with poor translations, even the branding on the product is spelt wrong, somy, sumsang, nokla. A quick glance and you can be forgiven for thinking their the real thing but when you look closely the fake becomes apparent.
The main concern with counterfeit phones is safety. Counterfeit batteries have been known to explode, injuring and even killing people. LG has also been a victim of counterfeit batteries being sold under their brand. In some cases their almost indistinguishable from the real thing. Their sold as spares and replacement batteries.
Manufacturers of fakes are generally unwilling to spend the time and money on quality control and testing for safety issues. Its all a money making venture. 10 to 15 percent of goods in china are estimated to be counterfeits. This equates to tens of billions of pounds.
Patrick is an expert Research and Travel consultant. His current interest is in Birmingham airport parking, Birmingham airport hotels and Gatwick hotels.
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