parallel imports - Page 13

007point5 · 06-08-2006, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by CD

Yes - PIs are 100% LEGAL!!!

Fakes are FAKES - 100% ILLEGAL!!!

Brands don't like PIs as they can't control them - therefore they can't charge a higher price in certain countries - like here in the UK, as they do normally.

I bet everyone here has been involved with a PI (buying it or actually doing it) - be it clothing, car parts, cans of Coke, fags, alcohol........

BOSSE - you can buy authentic clothing as you've requested by PI (not all of those brands though). Where are you based?

parallels 100% legal

a very niave comment. 75% parallels are 100% illegal

CD · 06-08-2006, 03:50 PM

They are 2 TOTALLY DIFFERENT things!

PIs are PIs - 100% LEGAL.

Fakes are fakes - 100% ILLEGAL.
No matter what people try to dress it up as (stolen, PIs, seconds, new season, ltd ed......)

terri · 11-13-2006, 02:44 AM

i know some guys selling gear pretending its pararllel imports but its really all counterfeit

kristopher9876 · 11-22-2006, 04:50 PM

The biggest danger of illegal pesticides in the UK market is through abuse of the parallel import trade, according to most of the leading agchem manufacturers.

In simple terms a parallel import is a product currently being marketed in another country but is identical to an existing UK product.

"Parallel trade is perfectly legal," DuPont's Tom McHale stressed.

"But people are abusing the laws."

Until recently the imported material must have been manufactured by the same company or an associated company to the UK approval holder's product, as well as being sufficiently similar to a UK approved product

BASS · 11-23-2006, 06:16 AM

IT SEEMS A LOT OF SPIVES CLAIM THEIR FAKES ARE PI'S TO GIVE THEMSLEVES SOME CREDABILITY WITHOUT HAVING OFFICIAL PAPERWORK

insomniax · 11-26-2006, 01:51 AM

80% of so-called pis are just fake crap :x

honcho · 11-26-2006, 09:35 AM

apart from italy (to the uk) where do real parallel imports come from? do any brands go the other way, from the uk to italy?

Hugos_Loss · 11-26-2006, 05:50 PM

Not that I know of. In Europe England is called treasure island by many compaies because they charge you much more than the continent.

honcho · 11-26-2006, 07:56 PM

what about brands like burberry, aquascutum, hackett, pringle, henri lloyd, smedley, mcqueen, westwood going the other way into italy?

fashionfreak · 12-01-2006, 06:39 AM

so are there many grey market garments sold on ebay?