10 Million Baht Raid Of Shop Selling Counterfeit Branded Items In South Pattaya

[Rimmer]

10 Million Baht raid of shop selling counterfeit branded items in South Pattaya

PATTAYA: -- Pattaya Police conducted a raid on a shop containing 10 Million Baht’s worth of counterfeit branded items on Thursday evening. Armed with search warrant number 602/2554 issued by the Pattaya Provincial Court, Police Colonel Tirapon, Deputy Commander of Chonburi Provincial Police, led a raid of a shop unit located on the ground floor of the Baywalk Residence, located at the southern end of Pattaya Beach Road. Inside the shop were three employees and the reported owner of the business, Khun Tanat aged 44. Items seized included counterfeit branded handbags and wrist watches which they sold to mostly foreign patrons. However Police indicated to the owner that the search warrant was issued on the strength of complaints received by foreign customers

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-- Pattaya One 2011-12-09

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[Orac]

copy goods worth 10m baht - how big was the shop?

[Jingthing]

So it's OK to copy but don't try to sell fake as real? Makes sense to me actually.

[TheWalkingMan]

Shops on the Baywalk have customers? Many shops have opened and many have closed. There are a lot of open spaces on the 2nd and 3rd floor of that complex.

[thaimate]

We keep hearing about these raids but i still cannot believe that you can buy counterfeit goods in Pattaya ,next you will be saying that hard core porn is for sale on beach road.

[bobo42]

So it's OK to copy but don't try to sell fake as real? Makes sense to me actually.

Not sure if you're being facetious or not, but actually seems like a fairly sensible policy to me. I don't think you could ever stop all the copies being sold as copies - and anyway, you're getting what you're paying for, a cheap knock-off - as you are well aware. On the other hand, selling a cheap knock-off as the genuine article is a whole other ballgame.

That said, I hope these counterfeits are of much better quality than any of the copy articles I've seen on offer. I don't think anything I've ever seen on offer could pass for "real".