Confused-Montblanc Online Outlet Store?

[kuli1961]

Sitting in front of my PC, searching the Web re my new baby-Greta Garbo ballpoint pen, and found this website:

http://montblanc.outletonline.us/

 

Looked the prices, and it looks to good to be true...Greta Garbo fountain pen for 116 dollars? Boheme Doue Platinum fp for 119 dollars? Intriguing is the fact the price range for any Boheme, GG,Brahms, Etoile,,, is between 100-150 dollars? Isn't it enoguh to run away, as faster as possible? Or, am I sooo wrong?

(Can this page be considered as legit MB sale page?)

[jar]

No, of course it is not a Montblanc site.

 

 

Name:

Billups Dawn

Street:

10970 international blvd apt 211

City:

Oakland

State:

California

Postal Code:

94603

Country:

China

Phone:

+86.8084691485

Fax:

+86.8084691485

Email:

@hotmail.com

Edited January 26, 2017 by jar

[Tom Kellie]

~ Hmm...

A hotmail address as opposed to a regular Montblanc e-mail address?

A close look at the grammar in the “contact us” sentence reminds me of how students write where I work.

Tom K.

[kuli1961]

Thanks Jar, for clearing.. thought the same, especially when have read "Terms & Legal" posted on official MB site (.com, .de), but wanted to share my confusion. The site I mentioned is designed in a way it's quite easy to fool average person, right?

[kuli1961]

Thanks Tom K., as well

[meiers]

I would not give them a penny or a moment of my attention.

[Tom Kellie]

~ In heavily visited tourist areas in major cities where I work and live, it's commonplace to find vendors offering fake luxury goods.

Quite a few are upfront about their trade, posting signs in English of this sort:

“Highest quality fakes”, “No finer fake watches”, “Look like the real ones”

It's widely perceived here as sport, caveat emptor. If buyers don't do adequate due diligence, they're thought to have deserved having been fooled.

There's a surprising level of sympathy for counterfeit product sellers, who tend to be regarded as clever entrepreneurs using their wits to feed their families.

For that reason in this country I've only done business in official Montblanc boutiques which I've confirmed on Montblanc's international Web site are, in fact, genuine boutiques.

Pity. They never seem to fake OBBB nibs...

Tom K.

[jar]

Thanks Jar, for clearing.. thought the same, especially when have read "Terms & Legal" posted on official MB site (.com, .de), but wanted to share my confusion. The site I mentioned is designed in a way it's quite easy to fool average person, right?

I would certainly hope it would not fool the average person yet I have found that these days average seems way below average. This is not Lake Wobegon.

[kuli1961]

"Lake Wobegon"- I am thankful that Wikipedia exists...

[cattar]

And NPR.

In Lake Wobegon, the children were above average, the adults had other qualities.

[AGxM]

Ahhh the famous Chinese AAA versions......many a happy shopping day in Shenzhen

[Parker51]

As a person who has academically studied anthropology, economics, history, psychology and sociology I am equiped to analyze the behavior of creating and selling fakes. I can understand it. I can describe it. What I can not do is accept it. To me the creation of and selling of fakes is of such a high level of dishonor as to invite comparison with direct theft, but with the direct theft being more honorable as they are not trying to deceive, but rather simply to take from another what they want; typically not done with glee, but with shame, or at least desperation.

Additionally, even if one is never caught, even if no one is harmed by the fake..., If it is an item in which the fake has the same utility as the original, and the theft is of the creativity of the origonal maker and of their reputation, there is stillino personal honor in taking resources from another through theft by deception.

And the truth is many fakes are not only thefts of the intellectual work of the origonal creators, they are also inferior and sometimes faulty or dangerous products which lead to harm and in extreme cases death.

My only hope is that eventually someone develops a nice little machine which can tell the difference between fakes and real products, perhaps through a system of secure product identification and a data base of where the real products can be found and when and the little machines are not simply hand held devices in the hands of prospective buyers, but are integrated into a full suite of detecting equipment so that every single shipment of every single item from any place which has fakes being produced due to the lack of honor and the toleration of this dishonor by the communities in which they are produced is screened with every single fake being destroyed after as much information as possible is obtained on the originators and profiteers of the items so that they can be identified. And then, they and every member of their family who has benefited from this theft should have every single bit of wealth taken away from them in any way that can be done. Maybe if a few hundred students far away from their homes find their studies ended due to empty bank accounts and some people having nice vacations find they can't buy dinner and are turned out of their hotels for non-payment and some far away Condos, homes and other distant businesses are all confiscated, maybe then the profiteers, the dishonest fakers will take notice.

[TheRealMikeDr]

I once bought a fake Rolex from a person selling them on a street corner in Singapore. This was back in 1990 - they called them "copy watches" and you were engaged by vendors as you walked past asking (over and over) if you wanted a copywatch. I think it was something like 20 clams and it was a great souvenir - my wife still wears it for fun on occasion. You would never confuse it for a real Rolex but it's actually a nice looking watch.

Edited January 27, 2017 by TheRealMikeDr

[BillH]

Fake Rolexes, fake Roseville pottery, MontBlack fountain pens, Elvis impersonators... everybody wants a 1 ct diamond for $75.

 

Actually, a collection of that stuff might make a very interesting pursuit. But that's a different forum I think.

[RoSpectre]

Oddest to me are "replica watch enthusiasts" who try to get the highest quality fakes, still look down on lesser fakes, and discuss them as earnestly as we discuss pens here. I wonder if the same exists for pens; people swapping tips on what little shop in Asia can be relied upon to produce the best replica pens... "You pay more than you will at the street vendor but when you write with this fake, you will understand where the extra money goes. Quality is at least half as good as the real thing, and it costs a mere 4 and a half times the amount of your entry level knock-off!"