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...Young shoppers are increasingly cool with counterfeits. That seems to be the message from TikTok trends, which show fake luxury products gaining a life of their own....
...It’s now easier to buy a counterfeit Rolex online than it is to try to romance an authorised dealer....
...Called Office 39, it was one of several entities created by the regime to bring in billions of dollars a year from schemes ranging from producing and distributing counterfeit cigarettes and US dollar bills...
...“You smell a lot; there is a lot of glue in counterfeits.”...
...The price tag: £2m....
...It may have failed because it came with a high price tag, partly to assist insurers with the transition....
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...On this occasion, they sit at numbered tables, wear name tags and grapple with the problem in breakout sessions....
...As fine wine prices have soared, so has the temptation to sell counterfeit wine. Examples are legion....
...His paper aims to put a price tag on various EU policies, set according to the level of ambition....
...Despite the trilogy’s “Berlin” tag, only “Heroes” was made there....
...Beyond Brexit, for example, one can disappear into a rabbit hole of Brexiters, Remoaners and assorted other new tribal tags....
...One counterfeit watch website operating today purports to be a family-owned business with professional images of TAG Heuer and Breitling watches alongside its own blog, Twitter feed and Instagram page....
...This includes examining assorted red herrings and police failures to gather forensic evidence....
...“We don’t do that,” they say, in slightly the same tone they would use if I were letting seven-year-olds play tag in a needle-strewn crack den....
...(FT) In the news Alibaba sued for counterfeits Kering is suing Alibaba for encouraging buyers to look for fraudulent goods....
...Like all struggles for democratic rights, so too this historic rejection of the Eurogroup’s 25th June ultimatum comes with a large price tag attached....
...The tag should look clean and stamped properly. Also you shouldn’t see or smell glue.” Salembier says that in the past two years a new class of “super-fakes”has emerged....
...Protecting the wealthy from buying counterfeit examples of bottles with five-figure price tags is not going to win her a Nobel Prize, but it is notable that the FBI now has a counterfeit wine division....
...It even aims to build the world’s biggest hydropower dam, with a $5bn price tag, which the country refuses to believe it cannot afford....
...Assorted other costs push the price up to £6.2bn, with further rises anticipated. Kiran Stacey...
...But what’s in it for Verizon to match Vodafone’s $130bn price tag after all these years?...
...In the nearby Gap outlet store, where hooded sweatshirts are offered in every conceivable colour, their price tag of Rmb399 is hardly a bargain....
...One model carried a briefcase with a large luggage tag in the shape of a hula girl attached. The oversized tailored trousers were all fastened by a casual D-ring web belt....
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