The Fair Trading Act
Section 13. False (or misleading) representations -
No person shall, in trade, in connection with the supply or possible supply of goods or services or with the promotion by any means of the supply or use of goods or services,
(a)(make a false or misleading representation) that goods are of a particular kind, standard, quality, grade, quantity, composition, style, or model, or have had a particular history or particular previous use;
Section 26. Importation of goods bearing false trade description -
(1) This section applies to any goods to which a false trade description is applied.
(2) All goods to which this section applies are hereby prohibited to be imported into New Zealand, and shall be deemed to be included among goods prohibited to be imported under (section 54 of the Customs and Excise Act 1996) and the provisions of that Act shall apply to such goods accordingly.
(3) In this section, "false trade description"' means any representation which if made in connection with the supply or possible supply of goods or with the promotion by any means of the supply or use of goods would constitute a contravention of section 13(a), (d), or (j) of this Act.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, a false trade description shall be deemed to be applied to goods if -
(a) It is woven in, impressed on, worked into, or annexed or affixed to the goods; or
(b) It is applied to a covering, label, reel, or thing in or with which the goods are supplied.
(5) For the purposes of this section, a trade mark is not a representation.
Only the courts can decide if the Act has been breached. Breaches of the Act may result in prosecution in court. Companies found guilty of breaching provisions of the Act may be fined up to $200,000 and individuals up to $60,000.
I think that's pretty clear. Although there is some argument that they are 'genuine' in the fact they may be made in the same factory, but not under licence or perhaps to the same standard that paying a proper supplier would guarantee.
Try being on a tour bus going through Italian borders - they are not forgiving regarding counterfeit stuff. To the degree that they will confiscate it, while detaining you until you pay the difference between the full price of the genuine item and the fake item. Good deterrent huh?
The thing is that they most likely ARE made in the same factory, with the same parts. Bar one or two minor differences.
Alpinestars have the same issue with some of their gloves (GP pro maybe?). They are almost identical, however the knock-offs do not have a yellow kevlar lining on the inside of the glove. Would the knockoffs do as good in a crash? Depends on what sort of crash you're planning to have...
Yea guys, sorry I jumped the gun a bit. My mate from work said they are either $249 or $189 each for 10 or more, I thought they would then be legit, but I looked at some of the stuff he's previously imported and it doesn't seem to be authentic. He is Korean so (not to be racist) I should have picked up on them being shoddy imports. A bit embarrassing that I've already advertised them to you guys (and put them on trademe).
I ended up ordering a few items (the ones on trademe), and will check their quality to see how good they really are if anyone is still interested.
Fuckin' cagers.
I hope your mate at least knows two broke girls so you get something out of the deal!
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It is easy to figure out. 'Entrepreneur' numbersixteen16 sees some cheap name brand stuff like Dainese and Alpinestar on Aliexpress, figures that no one else on trademe or KB has seen it yet, offers it up for a couple of hundy on KB and $329 on Trademe. Gets nobbled and blames it on his Asian friend, Mr Snuffleupagus. Can't really blame someone for make 250% margin, that is the kind of thing retailers do. Except, he isn't too clever and leaves the Trademe ad up.
Of course, I could be completely wrong and the asian mate is genuinely importing this stuff from the good old US of A and trying to help us out....
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