How does ebay sell lowepro bags 50% below BH?

brianl

Free shipping from china. 100% rating. Are they clones likely? Must be a catch right?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lowepro-Flipside-400-AW-DSLR-Camera-Photo-Bag-Backpack-amp-Weather-Cover-Black-/261581881861

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Well, it is fake bag and it is Chinese store.

brianl

I naive. Silly me thought ebay had some concept of piracy abatement.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Silly me thought ebay had some concept of piracy abatement.

It is not piracy, just little shady business. You can report it, and may be they will remove listing.

fatpig

I bought a lowepro bag for about 30% of the market price from ebay somewhere in asia. it is genuine. it is really good. :) It was the Lowepro Trekker Mini for AU$ 53,50 incl. shipping. seller: bulessky. they dont seem to be in business anymore, but I think one could contact them.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@fatpig

It is good to remember that China also makes very good bags themselves under their own brands. No need to search for Lowepro with huge amount of counterfeit items.

fatpig

I am inclined to believe you, but I would not know where to look, except for this board's sale section. :)

jleo

could be fake or stolen :) [could be the lighting, but the sewing on the camera inserts looks a bit rough compared to Lowes]
could be seconds, slight defect
could be genuine, but factory overrun. Manufacturers have to make more than what is amount specified in contract to cover imperfections, damage etc. And might dump them cheap in local market.
could be realifeit. A realifeit is when a manufacturer deliberately makes extra genuine units for unauthorized resale.
could be genuine but bought slightly above cost. The markup on goods shipped to US has several levels, importers, shippers, distributors, etc. Deduct all that and its cheap!

http://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-lowepro-400-aw.html

http://www.dhgate.com/product/2-colours-black-green-lowepro-flipside-400/161879960.html

babypanda

actually, it's better to support the manufacturers who innovate and create new products than manufacturers that create nothing new except copy.

anyway, these bags are not that expensive and how many bags are you going to buy in one lifetime?

brianl

Anyone have links to some good chinese bags?

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@brianl

Fancier make very good ones (Weifeng also has some under E-IMAGE brand as I remember).

haribabis

I have also bought a lowepro at half price from china. It is genuine and it was so cheap because it is a 2009 model

Vitaliy_Kiselev

It is genuine and it was so cheap because it is a 2009 model

Well, it can be genuine, but with very low probability. Most probably it is amazingly good copy. You can check some forum about clothes.

brianl

2009? But hasn't there been amazing breakthroughs in Bag technology since 2009? Or no.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

But hasn't there been amazing breakthroughs in Bag technology since 2009? Or no.

Well, huge industry work to prevent people to use old clothing. why not to make same for camera bags? :-)

brianl

Right Vitaliy, refrigerators and TV's last about 5 years now. Consume Consume Consume.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Right Vitaliy, refrigerators and TV's last about 5 years now.

You mean yours? As mine work for long time :-) And 5 years for modern TV is very big time.

DrDave

It's just a bag. Anyway, if you look on Amazon you will see the 300 is the same price, more or less, plus you can return it if you don't like it. $59.99 on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Lowepro-Flipside-300-Backpack-Black/dp/B000YA33DC

brianl

I emailed the company. they said they're high quality copies. Not originals. Btw, I end up buying this bag: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/889716-REG/ruggard_pbb_235b_thunderhead_35_dslr_camera.html Highly recommend. Good quality, padded straps give great support. good size, not too big or too small.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

I emailed the company. they said they're high quality copies. Not originals.

:-)

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