I'm gonna drop some real shyt on this topic. There are levels to the knockoff game. The way to really get it is to either know Cantonese or Mandarin or know someone that does. Shyt now is so underground that to really get good stuff you have to know a Chinese plug and conduct business through WeChat.
Some of the high quality shyt that people say is 1:1 ain't even knock offs though ,it's actually just smuggled out of the factories so you are actually just buying hot goods, but like I said those are the WeChat vendors. TaoBao, iOffer, etc. those are regular knockoffs. The high end fakes aren't that much cheaper than retail for obvious reasons. I knew a few guys that did tours of factories in Guangzhou China as a startup and they said there's all types of corruption that goes on and they spend a lot of time trying to keep their intellectual property from hitting the streets and also correcting manufacturing errors. They had to fly out there twice a week because the Chinese factory managers be on some "It's good enough" mess when the workers put in some halfass work
I don't mess with the knockoffs myself now, but sometimes you ain't got any options if you want something that isn't produced anymore like previous seasons, if there isnt a secondhand market for it
Yeah those stolen good connects are hard to come by one dude i know who was a mod for a defunct forum now had that hookup cause he was promoting one seller only and the seller was making bank the mod got kickbacks in the form of item and cash.the guy knew mandarin very well too and he kept talking about how he was gonna move over to guangzhou to work for the guy.Let me tell you them sellers is making bank yo lol.Dude posted a screenshot one time of the chinese seller with 2 brand new lambos and when we translated the text he said both of em was his that he bought off the money he makes selling fakes
