This is a hot take on the recent chorus from US makers and brands about not buying knockoffs.
Let me start by stating the obvious—don’t buy knockoffs. If you want to be a smart consumer, support good ideas, designers and companies, buy the original. Vote with your This is the very essence of the idea of voting with your wallet. Buy from a trusted retailer and if something seems too cheap to be real that is because it is not. Buy originals. Duh.
But there is more to this than “Don’t buy knockoffs.” Counterfeit goods have been around for a long time—watches, handbags, and designer clothes have been ripped off for decades. The thing I think makers need to know is that this can’t be a one way street. If they want support for original work, they need to do original work. I don’t want to direct this criticism at any one person, but the trend of making a custom, selling a few, then making a production run with the help of a Chinese OEM is over. If you want loyal customers push the limits of what you can do. Phoning it in with a run with different fat carbon inlays doesn’t count.
An interesting take on the current state of the knife economy.
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