I just read few bits of info re fakes - and few are not accurate.

Buying of fake item, at the markets, from Ebay, from overseas.... etc - will not get you prosecuted. Can you imagine how many people on any given day would be carted off by the police and charged for carying those awflul fake LV bags? And that's just from one shopping centre! Multiply for nation wide.

I spoke to someone from LV some time time ago, and that subject came up -  and you'd need to be found manufacturing and distributing them before they would  lay charges.

Likewise, saying it's illegal to post them is meaningless, who is going to decide weather something is fake or not (and for that, every parcel would have to be opened first  so the PO guy can check what's in it) and even then, he wouldn't know a fake if you hit him in the head with it! Nor is that part of their job - to be experts in every brand that can potentially be a fake.

And, just looking on the boards,  all those who receive one through the post never reported parcels being tampered with - they arrive to their address just fine.

But with all this - fake anything is never OK, even for those who can't afford the real thing and don't mind in the slightest being decked out in fakes.

It is stealing, making money of someone else's designs.

Just wandering while I think about it - where does that leave certain company from Spain with stores worldwide - world's biggest copycat - and making a forune out of it. As soon as something hits runways, almost identical item is mass produced, without the labels of the designer, of course, but the style, colours and fabrics are unmistakenly similar (same).