https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn Types of Evidence en-us 2017-11-14 11:49:58 UTC 2025-11-14 14:33:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206743787 2017-11-14 14:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206743787 paulkip9317 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206744105 "There is a kind of obsession with bags. It's so easy to make money"]]> 2017-11-14 14:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206744105 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206744369 "most people think that buying an imitation handbag or wallet is harmless, a victimless crime"]]> 2017-11-14 14:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206744369 dheerajped1339 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206744984 "Most fakes today are produced in China, a good many of them by children. Children are sometimes sold or sent off by their families to work in clandestine factories that produce counterfeit luxury goods."]]> 2017-11-14 14:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206744984 ryleesto1795 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206745009 ¨The average luxury bag retails for 10 to 12 times its production cost¨. 
¨... to pick up knockoffs for one-tenth the legitimate bag's retail cost...¨.
¨...two-thirds of British consumers are ¨proud to tell their family and friends¨ that they bought fake luxury and fashion items¨. 
¨Sales of counterfeit T-shirts may have helped finance the 1993 World Trade Center bombing...¨. 

]]> 2017-11-14 14:54:49 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206745009 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206745045 Interview with Prada
"It's so easy to make money"]]> 2017-11-14 14:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206745045 gracebuc1329 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206745187 ¨Counterfeiters agree. As soon as a handbag hits big, counterfeiters around the globe churn out fake versions by the thousands. And they have no trouble selling them.¨ The author is observing the actions of the counterfeiters and explains what and how they are doing what they do. Would now be more of a current event because these are facts and this is what is happening, not really a story and they do not know these people personally. ]]> 2017-11-14 14:55:04 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206745187 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206745406 "At least 11 percent of the world's clothing is fake, according to 2000 figures from the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group in Paris."]]> 2017-11-14 14:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206745406 paulkip9317 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206745642 "Profits from counterfeiting are one of the three main sources of income supporting international terrorism"]]> 2017-11-14 14:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206745642 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206745686 Trip to China to experience production of fake luxury items "I have seen it myself... we found two dozen children... gluing and sewing together fake luxury-brand handbags"]]> 2017-11-14 14:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206745686 gracebuc1329 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206747071 The author is getting direct information from the investigator, they are writing what they hear and write down the observation.]]> 2017-11-14 14:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206747071 hannahser1212 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206747096 "most fakes today are produced in China"]]> 2017-11-14 14:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206747096 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206747255 "The average Chinese factory worker earns about $120 a month; the counterfeit factory owner earns half that or less."]]> 2017-11-14 14:57:31 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206747255 makennagre0798 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206747660 "Profits from counterfeiting are one of the three main sources of income supporting international terrorism" ]]> 2017-11-14 14:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206747660 paulkip9317 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206747941 "Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys shop here... affluent people from Newport Beach"]]> 2017-11-14 14:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206747941 oliviajau1018 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206748521 "As we made our way back to the police vans, the children threw bottles and cans at us"]]> 2017-11-14 14:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206748521 paulkip9317 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206748972 "Most people think that buying an imitation handbag or wallet is harmless, a victimless crime. But the counterfeiting rackets are run by crime syndicates that also deal in narcotics, weapons, child prostitution, human trafficking, and terrorism."]]> 2017-11-14 14:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206748972 cameronmit0813 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206749105 ¨Luxury fashion designers are busily putting final touches on the handbags they will present during the spring-summer 2008 women´s wear shows¨]]> 2017-11-14 15:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206749105 nolanfal2092 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206749458 2017-11-14 15:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206749458 yashelkha0803 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206750156 "counterfeiters buy the real items, take them apart, scan the pieces to make patterns and produce almost perfect fakes"]]> 2017-11-14 15:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206750156 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206750516 "...the average American woman was buying two new handbags a year in 2000; by 2004, it was more than four."]]> 2017-11-14 15:02:08 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206750516 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206750625 "Luxury brands also need to teach consumers that the traffic in fake goods has many victims."]]> 2017-11-14 15:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206750625 nolanfal2092 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206750814 "Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys shop here."  "Affluent people from Newport beach... proud to tell their family and friends."]]> 2017-11-14 15:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206750814 gracebuc1329 https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206751591 There would have been an anecdote is there was a story within what the author is saying. If the author had mentioned a child they met on the trip to China, that would have been an anecdote. It would build off of something that has already been said. ]]> 2017-11-14 15:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_mccarter/yl0huqumarqn/wish/206751591