Fake chinese electronics selling better

Found on IT Wire on Saturday, 25 November 2006
Browse Pranks

It's a funny old world. Chinese manufacturers are copying the circuit boards and designs of products from Japan and Korea, and they're doing it so fast that by the time the originals arrive in the marketplace, they’re seen as the fakes!

Everything from designer clothes, handbags, Mont Blanc and other brand pens, expensive cars, golf clubs, jewellery, sports shoes (sneakers), many modern toys including many of the robots in the 'Robosapien' series and plenty more including CDs and DVDs is freely available from 'markets' all over China, and if you know where to look, at markets in Hong Kong, too.

Samsung is said to have been so concerned by seeing its phones copied on the Chinese market that it tracked the distribution channels back to the source and discovered the electronics guys responsible for copying their latest products.

After offering them a job with Samsung and a chance to go legitimate, they are reported to have declined the offer, saying that they were able to make more money by simply continuing in their pirate ways. What Samsung did next is not known.

Try that anywhere else in the world. You fake something so perfectly that the original manufacturer offers you a job instead of sueing you into the ground; and you simply refuse.