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Ok so a few months back i put a posting on here advertising the perfect Hermes bags. In the end i ended up selling all of my stock (15 bags) within two weeks!

So now i am looking for the perfect replica bags. I know the source for ultimate Hermes replicas, after months of searching, but i do not know where to get other Perfect Reps.

I can get reps that are darn close, the only difference being the dustbag and the colour of glue used is a slightly darker shade than the original.

Now there is something called a Korean Super Copy - obviously bags made in Korea.

These bags are the exact matches to their authentic partners. I mean everything is the same. There is no difference. Not even an Louis Vuitton worker could tell the difference. I have been doing a lot of digging around for a supplier of these bags with no luck.

Can anyone on here point me in the right direction?

Or rather, does anyone know someone who goes by the alias of Charles Han...?

Looking forward to your replies!

Jaymoi

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Ok so a few months back i put a posting on here advertising the perfect Hermes bags. In the end i ended up selling all of my stock (15 bags) within two weeks!

So now i am looking for the perfect replica bags. I know the source for ultimate Hermes replicas, after months of searching, but i do not know where to get other Perfect Reps.

I can get reps that are darn close, the only difference being the dustbag and the colour of glue used is a slightly darker shade than the original.

Now there is something called a Korean Super Copy - obviously bags made in Korea.

These bags are the exact matches to their authentic partners. I mean everything is the same. There is no difference. Not even an Louis Vuitton worker could tell the difference. I have been doing a lot of digging around for a supplier of these bags with no luck.

Can anyone on here point me in the right direction?

Or rather, does anyone know someone who goes by the alias of Charles Han...?

I,

Looking forward to your replies!

Jaymoi

I am not sure where you can find them but I have seen them on other sites and I have friends who have made the purchase.. The big difference with the Louis Vuitton is the way the leather trim ages... The leather on the rep is not of the same quality so where the trim on the LV bags tend to darken over time, the reps do not. Otherwise it is almost impossible to tell the difference.

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I am not sure where you can find them but I have seen them on other sites and I have friends who have made the purchase.. The big difference with the Louis Vuitton is the way the leather trim ages... The leather on the rep is not of the same quality so where the trim on the LV bags tend to darken over time, the reps do not. Otherwise it is almost impossible to tell the difference.

There are also factors such as the number of stitches, the colour of the glue used and so on.

I must find these Super Copy replicas! :g:

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Jaymoi, read my post again: I only said that Tse was the (italics) contact.

Tse's own bags are manufactured in China and have long been considered the top-end of the Chinese copies (which is to say a notch below the Korean bags) but he can and does access the Korean products. Possibly through your man Han....

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definitely keep us informed of your findings :)

Found this too .. interesting read .. I like the bit "the only difference is that some of the

counterfeits are better made than originals."

From The Star, Malaysia

Issue 21 March 2002

Bags of Trouble

Brand names are an addiction for Asian consumers, but now many have

found a cheaper way to get their fix. Meet the 'super copy'-so good it

fools even the experts

By Velisarios Kattoulas/SEOUL and TOKYO

FOR SOME TIME BEFORE leaving for vacation in Paris, Katie Kim had been

in a dilemma: Should she travel with her favourite "Chanel" shoulder

bag, a counterfeit bought in a Seoul market? Taking it with her, the

South Korean university student risked being collared by customs

officers and losing it-no small matter since she planned to carry it

sightseeing and shopping. In the end, she threw caution to the wind.

But Kim (not her real name) soon came to regret it. Although she

sailed through customs, the day after she arrived in Paris her bag

started causing her problems: Its shoulder strap broke.

At home in South Korea-where lawyers estimate counterfeiters produce 1

million fake European handbags and wallets a year-Kim might have been

more cautious. But she was bored. For all its history, Paris lacked

Seoul's gritty verve. So, on the home turf of the $54-billion-a-year

luxury-goods industry, Kim decided to create her own excitement: At a

Chanel store in Paris she buttonholed a clerk, and asked Chanel to

repair her bag under warranty. "I was curious," she said afterwards.

"I wanted to know whether the counterfeit I'd bought was any good."

Answer? Yes. Despite examining the bag closely, Chanel employees

failed to recognize it as a fake and-with profuse apologies-repaired

it for free. Luck was no doubt on Kim's side. But there was another,

more important reason why her brazen prank succeeded: Her bag was what

counterfeit connoisseurs call a "super copy."

Since about 1997, such high-quality fakes have been turning up in

increasing numbers at counterfeit markets-and in police busts-in

Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Los Angeles. Of course, illegal copies of

famous French and Italian brands are nothing new; there's been a

thriving trade in them since at least the 1970s. What makes the super

copies different and more worrying, however, is that even experienced

employees of companies like Hermes, Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and

Prada find it hard to spot them. "Sometimes," says David Campbell, an

expert on counterfeit luxury goods and director of operations at

Pinkerton Korea in Seoul, "the only difference is that some of the

counterfeits are better made than originals."

In any event, for about a 10th of the price of the real thing,

top-notch counterfeits are openly on sale in South Korea day or night.

In Seoul, probably the most popular place is Tongdaemun. The high-rise

mall seems constantly packed, stays open late at night and boasts an

entire floor crammed with some 50 stalls selling counterfeit

brand-name bags and wallets.

Typically, to thwart efforts to crack down on their illicit trade,

counterfeit dealers shy away from putting super copies on display, or

even keeping them at hand. But if shoppers spot something they like as

they leaf through glossy 500-page catalogues featuring every

conceivable brand-name handbag, wallet and belt, store clerks rush off

to fetch one from secret stashes nearby.

No less troubling for Europe's luxury-goods makers, South Korea's

counterfeiters are busily exporting their wares worldwide. Korean-made

copies account for the largest number of counterfeits seized in Japan,

while in the U.S. they consistently place in the top three. On both

sides of the Pacific, counterfeiters sell super copies by word of

mouth, on the Internet, at discount stores and sometimes even by

placing suggestive ads in small local newspapers. A Korean

counterfeiter based near Tokyo says he sold 100,000 super copies in

Japan alone last year. At the same time, working with overseas Koreans

in Los Angeles, he has now started shipping his forgeries to the U.S.

In many respects, Europe's luxury-goods makers are victims of their

own supercharged advertising campaigns. The ubiquitous leggy models in

their glitzy magazine ads have helped create a demand for brand-name

handbags that at times appears to defy logic. At an International

Herald Tribune conference in Paris late last year, Christophe Girard,

director of fashion strategy at luxury giant Louis Vuitton, Mo't

Hennessy, or LVMH, argued that even in bad times people sought the

validation and reassurance offered by luxury goods. "The quest for

pleasure" is timeless, he said. "It even happens in war. People want

to enjoy themselves." True enough: In Japan, which has suffered a

decade of economic gloom, the lust for brands has seen women

continuing to buy luxury goods in phenomenal numbers. In 2000, Louis

Vuitton sales in Japan rose 16%, topping the ¥100 billion mark for the

first time.

But shoppers also seem increasingly happy to get their brand fix in

other ways, too. And the super copies are only fuelling that

inclination, says Hidehiko Sekizawa, executive director of the

Tokyo-based Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living, the research arm of

a Japanese advertising agency.

"Japanese shoppers have always been very fussy about quality," he

says. "Now that the counterfeits are hard to distinguish from

authentic products, they no longer mind buying fakes, even though they

probably own a couple of authentic bags. They save the genuine

articles for formal events like weddings and parties, and dinners and

dates, and use counterfeits on rainy days, or to go to the supermarket

for milk." By contrast, in places like China and Korea, where

$500-plus handbags are out of reach for all but a tiny minority, women

simply ignore the real thing altogether and buy glossy counterfeits.

In other words, whatever the size of their purses, consumers no longer

seem to regard buying counterfeit luxury goods as a crime. According

to a survey of 500 Japanese schoolteachers by the government-funded

Consumer Education Help Centre, 20% had bought counterfeits. Of those,

63% bought them because they were cheap, 36% for fun

and-significantly-25% because they were of high quality.

It's impossible to know whether such attitudes are widespread, but a

South Korean journalist (who asked not to be named) suspects they

might be, at least in Korea. "Every woman in Korea owns at least one

counterfeit bag, even my mother," says the journalist, who happily

carries a fake Gucci bag to interviews with politicians, police

officers and officials.

"You can tell women on the subway are carrying fake bags because any

Korean who can afford genuine European luxury goods doesn't take the

subway," the journalist adds. "She drives or is driven." If she's

right, then almost one in two women on some subway lines in central

Seoul is carrying a counterfeit.

In all likelihood, the "Chanel" bag Katie Kim took to Paris, was made

at a factory like the one run by Charles Nam (not his real name) in a

converted farmhouse south of Seoul. From the exterior it looks like

every other building nearby. Inside, state-of-the-art machinery and

skilled workers churn out super copies by the thousand. In one room,

50 women sit hunched at sewing machines assembling super-copy wallets.

In another room, 50 more women add the finishing touches to super-copy

bags. Half of what the women make is Louis Vuitton counterfeits, with

the rest split evenly between Hermes, Gucci and Salvatore Ferragamo.

Nam, who says he runs six other counterfeit factories nearby, is coy

about how he ratcheted up the quality of his products. The

accumulation of skills over years helped, he says. He also benefited

from the Asian financial crisis that rocked the Korean economy in the

late 1990s. By destroying hundreds of small Korean leatherwear

factories, it left him with a larger pool of workers to hire from.

Yet, he says, the main reason for the sudden increase in quality was

Europeans; in particular, rogue individuals in Europe's luxury-goods

industry effectively running training courses for counterfeiters.

European artisans are also helping modernize China's counterfeiters,

says a New York-based intellectual property rights lawyer.

Law-enforcement officials in Korea and China have yet to uncover hard

evidence of such collaboration, but the New York lawyer has no doubt

it takes place. "The Italian brands are all supplied by

subcontractors," he says. "Some of them have technicians who have been

hired from time to time by companies in China-often to work in joint

ventures involving Italian investors-and no doubt they have shared

'secrets' with Chinese companies that have ended up making

counterfeits."

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