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i use to work for a cosmetic company and we purchased tooling/moulds from china to manufacture various jars/lip stick barrels etc.Originally Posted by edmtl
Originally Posted by 1man2lives
I believe nike is doing this to us. AR might have a major connect. IMO NIKE is probably selling these bgrade pairs to them for a good penny wholesale price. There is no way that nike has been giving away there mold plates or design plans away like candy. Its just a dumb idea because Nike is really strict about copyrights. If these shoes were fake and people are buying em like hotcakes than NIke will be sewing butts off! excuse my spelling. no time for spell check. Just think guys NIKE! They dont let copy cats get away.
It could be. It's like way back when an Apple employee lost an iPhone 4 prototype in a bar. It was to hype up the new iPhone 4 at the time[font=arial, sans-serif]. [/font]
tooling/moulds start as low as $5,000 USD. With higher grade moulds costing up to triple this amount. So its not a huge cost up front for these guys to get started.
plus, Asia/china has different laws against copyright/piracy, as in, there are no laws against it. Shops in huge shopping malls selling counterfeit/black market dvd's in plain sight of police etc. Im sure the store owners have arrangement with the law so they dont get hassled.
It would be extremely difficult for Nike to shut these operations down in Asia. They would never get non-reputable businesses to sell their product.
It would devalue the brand.