Originally Posted by underpressure
Take one trip to Itewon, South Korea..... it's out there.
At the shop where I bought some "legitimate" Tumi and Bree, The guy told me that the manufacturer has a contract and they automatically write off x% as scrap and that is where it ends up.
A son of a friend was in China for a year. He bought a load of first class goretex brand name jackets. He said the exact same thing. The factories write of x% as crap and sell it cheap still making a profit.