Re: Wang Hai, a Consumer Advocate in China - It all started on a bit of a lark.

On Jul 29, 1:24 pm, PaPaPeng <PaPaP...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:30:26 -0700, rst0wxyz <rst0w...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

If he is sure they are fakes, and the law says the store must pay him
double what he paid. Why not? That's 24 times the amount he paid.
You gotta be good to do this for a living.

And who is going to enforce the "Law"?
The customer has to go to some court to get satisfaction. Is he
willing to go that route if it was ever possible in the first place.
Consumer product claims is tort, not a criminal offence. Secondly
only large stores in the central business district may be concerned
about their reputations enough to entertain a claim after eight
months. But large reputable stores don't carry cheap fakes. To do so
is business suicide as there is no way they can compete against the
peddlar selling the same fakes from the sidewalk. Therefore our
"consumer advocate" bought his stuff from some samll business or even
a sidewalk peddlar. Try collecting from them will will be risking
his life and limb. The more we argue about this the more ridiculous
the story is.

Have you ever heard of the term:

Where there is a will, there is a way?

He's doing this for a living. Besides, how far can a vender go?
China is not like in America, where people are:

here today, gone tomorrow.

This article shows how much China has changed.

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