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People frequently make the mistake of thinking that their moral compass points in the correct direction when discussing replicas and this leads to the topic degrading rapidly.
The important thing to remember about your moral compass is that it only points in a streight line when you don't konw how lost you are!
If you think Its OK to go down to Wall Mart and fill your cart to the top with Human rights violations, Industrial espionage, child and slave labor violations, Industrial waste and polution violations (otherwise known as "Made in China") goods and then draw the line at replica watches you are sadly mistaken.
Copyright and trademark law was inteded to protect an individual so that he might profit from the fruits of his labor ie inventions intelectual propertly rights etc. And it was intended to protect him from other individuals and more importantly corporations who would otherwise just steal it and mass produce it!
Do I think it's ok for China to just do whatever the hell they want.. no but they are in the process of committing mass suicide by industrial polution and waste so I am pretty sure they will get what is coming to them.
Certainly even corporations are entitled to some level of protection but it's people like D. Freemont who copyright and trademark law was intended to protect and it's corporations like Rolex and Swatch and Richmont that the copyright and trademark law was intended to protect D. Freemont from. You will have to excuse me from not crying when billion dollar corporations who are often guilty of the same thing cry when someone is stealing their goodies.
Trademark and copyright are the least of the reasons why you shouldn't be buying a replica and for the more important reasons I listed above we are all guilty by the fact that we are all participating in this conversation on a keyboard made in China.
You want to talk about respect in the same sentence as replicas look me in the eye and tell me the only thing from China you own is the replica on your wrist! That guy has my respect at least what little I have to go around.
Oscar if you have some Invicta's with 7750's you are willing to sell me for 200.00 shipped you know were I live. Until then I would prefer the replica with the Chinese 7750 which other than price is exactly the same as the Swiss and is much more forgiving on my pocket book when I screw it up.
It’s only been in the last six months that the Chinese 7750’s have become common enough to buy in Germanese models on eBay but a used rep with the Chinese 7750 is still cheaper.
Replicas are representative of bigger problems that you can't solve just by not buying replicas it doesn't mean its OK to buy them but I'm going to hell for much more serious reasons than buying a replica so I sleep just fine.
The short and honest answer is I don't think replicas are OK but I own a couple in spite of my feelings.
Last edited on Mon Oct 1st, 2007 05:40 pm by OldeCrow