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Even bridal shop owners feel bad when a consumer gets cheated by China. I have hundreds of friend nation wide who own bridal shops and have posted a few of their recent comments regarding Fake Chinese Dress Copies.
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"Knockoffs seems to be a common occurence anymore. Last year a girl came
into the store and wanted to purchase a tony bowls dress that retailed
for a little over $700. Her mother had sticker shock, and did not
purchase the dress from me. A few months past and she came back,
desperate for the dress she tried on, and unfortunately we had already
sold the sample. Her mother then told me she ordered it directly from
china, 'to cut out the middle man'. It was hard not to laugh at this
statement, but I let her continue with her story. She said she was able
to get the dress ordered for $150. She asked me if I could check the
order for her, because it had not arrived and prom was in two weeks! I
told her I was unfortunately not able to do anything because it had no
been placed under my account. I told her the best I could do was check
hanging stock, and see if there were any left in her size, so we could
order her one from our store, but she would have to pay our price.
Luckily there was one left in stock! The dress arrived from Tony
quickly and we did a few minor alterations. The knock off arrived a
month LATE, and was sewn with purple, red, green, and blue threads, made
of organza instead of silk/taffetta, and to top it off the sequins were
glued on! I don't understand what people think they are going to get
for $150. Why does the red flag not go up in peoples' minds?"BR
"I had a girl come in a couple of weeks ago with a really bad knock off.
Dress was glued together and sequins were glued on. It looked AWFUL!
Money was not the issue (her dad is a local plastic surgeon) she just
had to have THIS dress and couldn't find it in any store. She bought
something from me to replace it but was still upset it wasn't "THAT"
dress!" DS
"Had a pageant girl and her mom in on Wed. with two eBay specials that
were supposed to be Tony Bowls knockoffs. The mom had ordered the
gowns, spent over $600 and had two pieces of trash. Mom had the
printout from the eBay site and both gowns plainly had the TB logo. The
dresses were hideous. Nothing was salvageable and she ended up buying
another pageant gown from me. Ka-ching! You just CANNOT educate people
about these knock-off gowns!!!" Tricia
