An unfolding criminal case offers a rare glimpse into how a group of Chinese immigrants turned knockoff Michael Kors bags and Jimmy Choo shoes into a multimillion-dollar business, allowing them to snap up luxury cars, Rolexes and real estate in New York and Florida.
For $2 a pop, they imported plain handbags from China, along with jackets, boots, sunglasses and other wares, and brought them to a Long Island City, Queens, warehouse, where the items were transformed.
Embroidery machines, replica buttons and badges, decals, logos, symbols and manufacturing plates that were used to make the imports look like items from Prada, Coach, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Tory Burch were all recovered from the Queens warehouse, authorities said.
They sold the "luxury" products at too-good-to-be-true prices in Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Georgia, Queens and Long Island, where authorities caught wind of the scheme after street sellers began badgering customers in beauty shops and nail salons, peddling the goods for $18 to $25 ($20-$27AUD).
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And the moral of the story is, if it's too good to be true, it usually is.
