Week 6 EOC: ILLICIT: What do I think about it?

I think Illicit is a new and improved way to make a quick buck in the black market. It ranges from bags to kidneys. It use to be that we bought fake glasses and hand bags, but we knew they were fakes. The fake bags and glasses did not have the same logo or emblem, or changed enough so that we knew they were fakes. Now the fakes are so good we can’t tell that they are fake, they are getting top dollar for the fake merchandise. What’s so bad about a few fake bags being made and smuggled across the globe? Well those same fake bags that are harmless at first sight may contain drugs or weapons being smuggled inside the fake products being transported around the world. The people smuggling the bags illegally don’t follow the same rules as the rest of the hard working population of business. So if you can smuggle a fake bag why can’t those same bags be filled with human kidneys or drugs or weapons. You wouldn’t want to buy a bag that contributed to human sickness or even death. The company that make these original products are losing money from these knock offs. It will ruin the reputation of that particular brand name, the knock offs are not as durable, the colors fade, there made with cheap material, so when these knock offs start to break down and fall apart the average consumer can’t tell that it’s a knock off and then they assume the product is not worth buying. I think this is terrible, because Illicit material is hard to determine that they are knock offs. They are even making fake medicine, and this is dangerous because they could kill the consumer that has no idea why they got sick from a brand they took all their life.