IMITATION

Trader data speaks for themselves: Greece has for years been sadly pan-European first in confiscation of imitations, with about 22 million seizures per year. About 25% of these products are clothing and shoes. Reasonable to worry about whether the sneakers you are preparing to buy (especially if you are shopping online) are authentic or if they will ask for a banana with the one you take out of their box.

Although in recent years the level of counterfeiting has risen and many times even experienced buyers find it difficult to distinguish a "monkey" from an Oriental couple, the signs are there and are waiting to be discovered:

1. She has the inner nameplate, it writes its official code, the shoe number, has the model barcode, etc. This mark can be either a different year from the production year or an irrelevant code or whatever it is in its digits barcode (eg 999 9999) or its font is different from the classic font used by the company in its products.

2. It may seem odd to you, but the new shoes have a specific smell, so ... smell them! It's like the new cars. When you enter inside you smell something that is difficult to describe, but you know it's "new". E, the same as the shoes. The quality materials used to make them have an odor that is impossible to confuse with any other.

3. He carefully observed the label in the box. In most imitations, the label will be too long or too small compared to the original. Also, the color shown may be different to the order or even missing words from the model name (eg, you have ordered "Adidas Superstar" and the box is "Adidas Star").

4. Search the box itself. Those containing imitations are likely to be too thin or their sides to be torn apart or too small or too large in relation to the pair that contain or lack specific labels or all of them together sometimes.

5. Far from where you see the description "variant", e.g. "Roshe One Variant". It's basically like telling you it's imitation, they just do it using a more "user-friendly" word.

6. Be suspicious if the site you are buying will say that your order will be shipped in more than 10 days. This is a powerful fact that this is imitation. Authorized representatives of companies, on the contrary, have stock and in most cases can serve your order in 1-3 business days.

7. The site from which you plan to purchase must have clear contact information in a prominent position and be able to respond to any of your emails in up to two working days. If there is no evidence or mela is fake or slow to answer ... the lame man did not ever cry!

8. Observe the shoe. See, e.g. somewhere vinyl or leatheret instead of leather? Is he tougher than he should? Is the sole showing plastic instead of rubber? Has double or single seam?

9. Wear the shoe. Do you feel ok at your feet? Are you sure you have ordered the right number, do you feel small or narrow? Is it "good"? Does the shoe smell intense sweat after the first few uses? It should not…

10. Important: Do not fish as before when you see the shoe being "made in China" or "made in Indonesia" or "made in Vietnam" and so on. They are not mufa, because most major companies are making it there and not in America or Germany. With their own raw materials, of course, but with the production line being based there.

10 + 1. After all, if you have a bad feeling about a site, if something does not stick to you even though you can not specify it, look for more. find the reviews that other buyers have left behind. Your money is down, you do not want to throw them away.

In any case, to have your head calm that what you order is the right shoe and will not ... get down from the tree to send it, it is wise to buy from e-shops that carry the official authorization of the company to sell your products. The best thing to do is to address existing stores such as Marinospor.

According to Directive 2013/11 / EC, which was incorporated in Greece with JM 70330/2015, the possibility of electronic settlement of consumer disputes with the Alternative Dispute Resolution procedure (ADR) is now provided throughout the European Union. If the customer has the status of a consumer (ie a natural person acting outside the professional capacity) and has any problem with a purchase made from our Website, he can initiate the ADR process through the single all-union platform for electronic dispute resolution (platform ADR) available at https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/odr/main/index.cfm?event=main.home.chooseLanguage.

Finally, we present a photo of imitation products: