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10 Amazing Chinese Knock-Offs That Could Fool Your Grandmother
These days you better know for sure what you're buying, because knock-offs are more prevalent than ever.
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When you can recognize what the street vendor is selling is not authentic, you can walk away or go ahead and make the purchase. Replicas aren't always a bad thing, so long as you know you may get what you pay for.
In fact, some of these replicas are pretty sophisticated -- it helps that China produces half of the world's manufactured goods in the first place. For brands including Apple, Trojan and Google this represents a not-insignificant threat to sales.
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