Fake guitars seized

Of course - China was the source.
I once turned in an auction house that was selling some very nice Chibsons as Gibsons. The county sheriff told me they were also selling counterfeit Rolexes and fake DeBeers diamonds.

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ICTGoober said:
Of course - China was the source.
I once turned in an auction house that was selling some very nice Chibsons as Gibsons. The county sheriff told me they were also selling counterfeit Rolexes and fake DeBeers diamonds.

https://imgur.com/6uI3jdk
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Well, of course.
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That's a lot of Gib/Martin/Fender to be arriving at Dulles on any given day me thinks....

That said not would have been MORE interesting to see where they were going first.
 
One of those customs officers must be a guitarist! :)

We have a family friend that flies internationally to China and Hong Kong. Without fail she returns every time with some knockoff goodies for her friends. Must be easy to get hold of them since she has only a few hours before flying back. I'll ask her to bring me a Les Paul next time.
 
Aceman said:
That's a lot of Gib/Martin/Fender to be arriving at Dulles on any given day me thinks....

That said not would have been MORE interesting to see where they were going first.
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According to CBP, the guitars were addressed to 21 different U.S. states, and one was destined for Australia.
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I think that the signature on the les paul signed by 'slash' might have been a giveaway:
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Is it bad that I kinda want to play the purple and blue 335 at the front? :P
 
Dang

The only reason anyone gets the company name on the headstock is to deceive people
whether its fool folks at a show
Or a buyer at a sale

Those are pretty instruments
And probably play fine

i doubt they get destroyed
 
The one I bought played terrific and sounded like a dream. But when I opened it up it was fake as hell. Which is why I turned them in. Got my money back, too.
 
I would like to point out that fakes coming from Asia are a product of labor costs -fakes were coming from primarily inside North America for many many decades until the costs got too high to where only high end fakes make economic sense now -except from Mexico.

It's not a moral indictment of Asian countries as some would imply -it's the economic opportunity of criminal enterprise regardless of location.
 
It's not a moral indictment of Asian countries as some would imply -it's the economic opportunity of criminal enterprise regardless of location.
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Yeah, it is. Not the person on the line (who is working for pennies a day), but the American importers and the owners of the factories KNOW it's illegal. And they should suffer the consequences (which they seldom have to do).
 
ICTGoober said:
Yeah, it is. Not the person on the line (who is working for pennies a day), but the American importers and the owners of the factories KNOW it's illegal. And they should suffer the consequences (which they seldom have to do).
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And those pennies = $10 an hour here. Show an appropriate economic comparison or don't say that. we work for crap compared to people in Dubai.

And illegal is also relative.
 
And illegal is also relative.
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According to how it's written, no. But in the real world - slippage.


I have a good friend who is a lawyer. I told him life would be so much simpler if law was cut and dried. He smiled and said, "We write law to be ambiguous for a reason.... to be interpretable....". And then I said, "Shakespeare was right - Kill all the lawyers". The bastards make it messy so they will always have jobs.
 
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People will always buy fakes looking for a deal. To some, it doesn't bother them that they are giving money to a company that rips others off. I can't do anything about that. I can, however, choose not to do it myself.
 
ICTGoober said:
I have a good friend who is a lawyer. I told him life would be so much simpler if law was cut and dried. He smiled and said, "We write law to be ambiguous for a reason.... to be interpretable....". And then I said, "Shakespeare was right - Kill all the lawyers". The bastards make it messy so they will always have jobs.
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There's a lot of profound truth in that statement.
 
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