2007
Bootleggers and Counterfeit denim traders beware
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Investigative Consultantsof Lawndale, California is hired by most of the leading premium denim companies to crack down on these denim trading bootleggers. Some of the companies under their umbrella include Rock & Republic, 7 for all Mankind, Citizens of Humanity, and Joe’s Jeans.
Chief investigator of operations Kris Buckner a retired LAPD sheriff handles most of the investigating and has closed down or crashed everything from small time vendors, to knockoff denim parties to websites who buy and sell counterfeit products of his designer jeans?clients.
Even with services like the above the apparel counterfeiting trade shows no sign of slowing down with businesses losing as much as $200 to $250 billion dollars a year on bootleg or counterfeit goods sold by small time retailers or websites. If you’re ever in need of their services contact them through there website.
What do you intend to do about bootleggers or counterfeiters of your clothing brand or is it only a big problem on a large scale and wouldn’t affect your clothing business as just one brand?
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June 17th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
its kind of a double edged sword….nobody bootlegs a failier…U have to have some measure of success to even get bootleged….so in a way your not really successful UNTIL you get bootleged…if that makes any sense…..I dont really think it effects small brands or brands just coming out…because they would have to do just as much work as U or more to get it to sell…and most bootlegers want easy money…something that sells it self….as far as detering bootlegers of my brand…it more about the consumer then the bootlegers themselves…it amost like a drug…you have to convice the cosumer that your product is that crack…and any thing less would be uncivilized…
June 18th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
You’d think it doesn’t affect small brands until it happens to you. I had received a tip from a customer about some people selling my shirt designs on ebay. Several of my designs were ahem..’Repurposed’ and printed on shirts along with their hideous logo slapped over the whole damn thing and then retailed on Ebay.
I filed a report with Ebay and they shut them down. But I think the original bootleggers were coming out of China.
My operation is pretty small and I would have never imagined in a million years someone would’ve bootlegged my work. But it happened.