Anyone know a place aside from the science and technology center to buy really good quality imitation watches and clothing particularly branded Men's Shirts / Polo's / Longsleeves (overruns or imitation)?

A few workmates from home are flying in next week and they've been to the Xiang Yang market already before it closed down and wanted to see where the good vendors went off to.

They also asked if they could find overrun/imitation premium branded jeans like Rock and Republic , 7 jeans , Tru Religion, Evisu ?

thanks !

there are a lot of stores who sell branded jeans with overruns along changle lu and julu lu. you just got to be patient and shop like a real lady if you really need to find one. Also you can try 580 Nanjing lu but the choices are very limited. For watch and bags, try to walk near Parkson in Huaihai lu corner Shaanxi lu and some local vendors will ask you like this, "hello lady/friend, watch, bags? look-a-look!" Good luck...

Are you guys naive to believe is "overruns" ? The fakes has NOTHING to do with originals except the logo. Material is inferior low quality (you will see after few washings). You can buy same for half price and stick the logo there by yourselves.

I thought there is no sucker who buys from those "DVD/Watch/Bag" scum on the streets, I was probably wrong. Well there is born one every minute or so...

didn't try to buy one though, but old enough to know the differences bet a real from a fake one. just making a friendly suggestion based on my stay here.

i thought there are no einstein-wannabe/sucker these days. i guess there is one born every minute or so...

didnt really get that burn but this topic reminds me of the copper rollexes and fake bags/clothes they have in xiang yang with enormous logos everywhere who buys that crap for any reason other than novelty

seph_07 wrote:just making a friendly suggestion based on my stay here.

1.
You misinform people. There are NO overruns, its just myth/urban legend/lie so suckers will buy the SHlT
2.
To suggest someone to make business with those "Watch/DVDBag" scum is NOT friendly, I would suggest this only to my enemy

i am not misinforming nor misleading people. i am just making a friendly contribution. and i am answering a person who is interested. you are taking this very far and very seriously. this forum can be fun if you can just put your shoes on others sometimes. people have different ideas, i know some can respect this and i know others won't. hope you can belong to the first group sometimes. this thread is not created only for you. so to react in that manner that is a baseless and a nonsense thing to do is just like a kid wanting a balloon.

i am not suggesting a person to buy. from my previous post i didn't even type the word "buy" or anything synonymous to the word...

the topic is "best place for replicas" not "buy a replica!"

i suggest before you make a post, try to analyze first if this topic is really for you or you just want to be recognized for your nonsense arguments.

i didn't know that you can make your enemy suffer or make a revenge by suggesting him/her to buy fake "Watch/DVDBag".

Enemy: ouch, you hurt me a lot by asking me to buy those "Watch/DVDBag". "My life is worthless now!

I insist I am the only person giving here friendly meant answer - do not buy that SHlT, its not worth it. Period.

Its same like someone would ask here: "Someone can tell me how to make suicide" and I am saying "Hey do not kill yourselves" and you are saying "Well, You can jump from JinMao, eat a lot of sleeping pills or cut your artery". And than argue with me you are giving friendly answer.

well talking about senselss answers. this thread is really informative, now i know that "Watch/DVDBag" can also mean "suicide". hahaha.

this is what you think, but as i have said the one who created the topic is interested. he is asking for "best place for replicas" which is related to "where". not "what do you think about replicas". if that is the question, you can bark anytime you like, i would understand because the topic suggested you to. but wake up, it is not!

he's alive! einstein have risen from the dead!

Enemy: "you make me feel like i'm jumping from JinMao, eat a lot of sleeping pills and cut my main artery by telling me where i can buy replicas". wow, this make sense to me now! thanks einstein...
cheers!

Let me go back to your answers:

there are a lot of stores who sell branded jeans with overruns

Not true, there does not exist any overruns, "overruns" is just myth for suckers


try to walk near Parkson in Huaihai lu corner Shaanxi lu and some local vendors will ask you like this, "hello lady/friend, watch, bags? look-a-look!"

You advice people here to seek one of the Shanghais biggest scum, get cheated, overpriced, maybe even robbed.
Now you definitely are NOT an Einstein fo sho...

Now you definitely are NOT an Einstein... let me explain that i am scolding someone here who happens to know everything about overruns. this does not mean that i am the einstein, einstein! hahaha.....

i didn't advice people, besides i believe everyone here can do things in thier own free will. not everyone are the type who does everything they hear without their own decision. this are just posts nothing more. don't take it too personal. once again i am just suggesting to the one who made the topic which is obviously interested and i happen to share a place or two. anway overrun master, hope this ends here.

dear posters/moderators, i would like to say sorry for these posts which are obviously out of the topic. being the one who undertand, i give up to our friend here.

einstein is suppose to be me? take a look around? woof woof... some people just type and type. let me remind you that sometimes we can also think and think! he's alive...

i am not impressed with the new einstein... can't even recognized who is who... peace!

someone here who happens to know everything about overruns

You are still not getting that: "Brandname overruns" does not exists, it is a myth, a hoax, an urban legend used to sell overpriced fakes to suckers.

So let's summarise: there are no good quality replicas available in Shanghai. Sorry. The crap you buy at 580 Nanjing Lu, Cheap-u Lu, or former French Concession is of poor quality & high price tag. If you settle for rip-offs and poor quality go to any of the places mentioned above.
Enjoy your stay in Shanghai (and on shanghaiexpat).
Angie.

Lol, thanks for all the replies guys, I appreciate all your advice, I've been in Shanghai for a year now and don't really buy fake stuff, it's just that my other colleagues are just dying to score imitation stuff probably for their families back home.

I don't know why people fight in those forums...
Everyone already had buy some fake stuff here...or you never watch a dvd movie at home?
and about clothes: I bought a lot of shirts for my husband at former XM and the quality was great, after almost 3 years, he can still wear it!Looks like new!
For jeans, don't know because it don't fit us...
For watches: you can buy a 20rmb watch in the street, will work for a few days maybe, but you also can buy a 200rmb watch that after almost 3 years is still working...
My point is: we all know everything is fake here.Sometimes we have luck and buy something that worth every cent.Sometimes we just come home and put in the trash.
The good point is: is cheap
The bad point is: the real logos owners aren't happy...ok, then why they don't lower their prices a bit, so we can buy real stuffs??
And, I think everyone agrees: is very fun to go out and bargain, and see how we became happy buying for a "real cheap"price, and then we see how the vendors are happy selling us stuffs for a "real good price"...it's a game, and we like it!

this thread should be titled
best place for quality (sic) ripoffs
followed by a disclaimer
do not try this at home

People wearing the XiangYang clothing look like scarecrows, people having fake Rolexes on the hand scream "look I am poor but I want everyone think I am rich".

Factory overruns do exist for non-luxury brand items. This is because the production contracts allow for a 3-5% margin for QA, testing, samples, etc. Manufacturers are allowed to keep this and sell it, although they need to destroy the label (hence the cut-labels you sometimes see)

However, I doubt premium brand jeans would allow overruns to leave the factory. I would expect them to monitor the fabric usage very tightly and destroy all overruns.

was gonna say too, there ARE overruns in china and i say this with confidence. denny you argue with a very personal opinion with nothing to back you up with. chill out!

denny007 wrote:People wearing the XiangYang clothing look like scarecrows, people having fake Rolexes on the hand scream "look I am poor but I want everyone think I am rich".

Or they might be saying that they find brands are simply marketing methods of getting people to pay more for a product than it's really worth. After all, I've never met anyone daft enough to try to pass off a fake Rolex as a real one - everyone I've met who's ever bought a fake Rolex just shows it off as a novelty item.

siesta wrote:was gonna say too, there ARE overruns in china and i say this with confidence. denny you argue with a very personal opinion with nothing to back you up with. chill out!

So you are saying that the brand owners are stupid and can not control it. Hmm. And there are also the 4th secret shifts - how many times I got an offer like "Full container of Adidas, 4th shift, same as original, for 30% of factory price".

greenmark wrote:After all, I've never met anyone daft enough to try to pass off a fake Rolex as a real one - everyone I've met who's ever bought a fake Rolex just shows it off as a novelty item.

Everyone who has it on its hand has already expressed intention (with wearing it) to lead people to believe its real. Everyone can buy replicas WITHOUT Rolex written on it. That would be "show as novelty item". Whoever buys replica with the actual brand written on it has intention to show it as real ones.

brand owners can control it but in reality there are individuals who wanted and manage by chance to slip several items outside for a reason i don't know. possibility of making an extra income.

i've seen a number of cut-labels before but the damage to the label has a very low percentage to recognize when worn because of the fact that it's from the inside. also it is just a straight one-inch cut diagonally, just enough to play safe and make a self-defense when questioned by the authorities.

seph_07 wrote:brand owners can control it but in reality there are individuals who wanted and manage by chance to slip several items outside for a reason i don't know. possibility of making an extra income.

i've seen a number of cut-labels before but the damage to the label has a very low percentage to recognize when worn because of the fact that it's from the inside. also it is just a straight one-inch cut diagonally, just enough to play safe and make a self-defense when questioned by the authorities.

Thats the TRICK ! They make it it looks like cutted label but always leave something to recognize the brand. 'Bout one year ago someone talked me into HOTWIND, swear is real overruns. And really - they have cutted label but you can see i.e. buttons or something. I bought "Guess" trousers, looked good. After first washing it got 2-3 numbers smaller and did not look like Guess anymore. I have for comparison reall "Guess" trousers, washed lot of times, still looks like new. The "overruns" rumors is their (succesfull) kind of marketing.

Am going to have to throw in against Denny here (you're either with him or against him...joke!)

There are most definitely overruns and even more prevalent - rejects. As someone who works with a lot of factories making clothing for big US and Euro brands I have seen the piles of rejected items (bad stitching usually) go onto truck out the back door as soon as the audit guys are out the front.

Added to this, the factory then uses the remaining material - there is always loads left over - and the same patterns, etc to run off another few thousand.

Nike started to fight this by only producing left shoes in one factory and right shoes in another. no doubt the factory owners were one step ahead.

Anyway, there most definitely is overruns.

so you have bought fake stuff before? Seems as if everyone has bought one thing or other at sometime during thier stay here. I don't think it's something worth getting too upset about. There really are much worse things that can happen in life.

hmmm, someone here has been fooled for sure. well lucky for those who doesn't just believe what they are told. you can look and compare from there, if you know something about genuine and fake products you can deal it by yourself not just acting like a puppet.

i seldom meet poeple selling stuffs that will tell you that their product is not good. it's up to you as the one who will purchase the product to decide. afterall it's your money...

you can also think sometimes not just type and type. peace bon jovi!

Anyway, there most definitely is overruns.

Now why is that those "overruns" are 10 times worse in quality then...

KevinS wrote:so you have bought fake stuff before? Seems as if everyone has bought one thing or other at sometime during thier stay here. I don't think it's something worth getting too upset about. There really are much worse things that can happen in life.

Thats what I am doing - warning others to do not repeat mistakes. Do not buy at those markets, do not buy from street wendors. I would put accent on street wendors - if nobody would buy from them, they would stop to be bothering us on the streets. But because some suckers buy from them, they keep bothering us whenever we go for a walk. Same goes with beggars - if nobody would give them nothing they wouldn't be there either.