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well ignorance is everywhere and the only way to not be duped is to educate yourself but even educated people will fall for these pairs sometimes, but... most consumers do not buy shoes to collect them, they wear them into the ground and move on to the next so i would actually hope that they receive the GM pair because of them being better quality and they will enjoy the product more.This is your personal choice, which is perfectly fine.
The point I am making is that people should be aware if they are being sold an unauthorized pair. If we just call them all authentic, how do we tell them apart? Then we end up with a resell market full of them, which is beginning to be the case. You might be ok with buying an unauthorized pair, but lots of people buying them assume they were authorized to be produced by Nike and would not be happy to find out they weren't. Not everybody is aware that unauthorized pairs are even out there.
If you go FL and the only shoe left in your size is the display shoe. The store isn't just going to sell you the shoe without letting you know it was the display shoe. Same thing should apply for unauthorized pairs.