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Old Aug 16, 2015 | 4:39 am
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UltraRant
 
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Originally Posted by Steve_19
I knew someone on a few of my trips to Asia who would buy fake designer headphones to sell in the US - besides the ethics involved with doing this, they did not make a huge amount of money even passing them off as real.

I may be in the dark about this topic, but would be surprised if this is possible to do with a lot of items. From my travels I have never run into many products that are significantly priced differently then in my home market (my home market being the US) to make this strategy work (unless of course you buy a huge amount of that product - but then getting it back home may be an issue). I think the easiest way would be to buy fake products and then try to sell them as real to get the best return, but I would not say a very ethical thing to do
That'd be straight criminal behavior. If you get caught you can get into some serious trouble. I don't think (at least I don't hope) this is what OP meant...

What would work is region bound things that are small and have no weight, like coins, stamps, spices like saffron, et cetera. And even then you should be aware that there technically may be limitations and applicable customs regulations.
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