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From: Giant Rock
Good for you! However, I don't see the need for you to post all this information other than to make your own head bigger.
Now I'm not saying that you are a loser, but nothing that you have listed proves that you are not. One can certainly be a millionaire, be successful, but still be a loser.
I guess your need to post how successful you are is the same as your need to put an AMG badge on a non-AMG vehicle.
Now I'm not saying that you are a loser, but nothing that you have listed proves that you are not. One can certainly be a millionaire, be successful, but still be a loser.
I guess your need to post how successful you are is the same as your need to put an AMG badge on a non-AMG vehicle.
As a matter of fact, I am very interest in de-badge my vehicle. I think it looks much cleaner that way. Furthermore, I do not care what people think about my vehicle or me. I am enjoying every minutes driving my CLK.
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'85 190E 2.3-16 '99 C280 '11 GLK350
If imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery, what's the big deal? I sense a lot of "holier than thou" attitude on the issue of badging and counterfeit goods, but owing or displaying such does not make any person "a loser" except in the eyes of the person casting that stone of a one dimensional judgment.
About the only time I've ever heard of an actual injury due to mis-badging, was a Canadian owner thought he was buying a 2.3-16, but after he bought it, it turned out to be a 2.3 8 valve.
BTW, design houses like Hermes, Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, etc. may rail against the sale and distribution of "knock offs" but they are also deeply hurt when their designs aren't copied and sold in the streets of Seoul, Taipei or NYC.
About the only time I've ever heard of an actual injury due to mis-badging, was a Canadian owner thought he was buying a 2.3-16, but after he bought it, it turned out to be a 2.3 8 valve.
BTW, design houses like Hermes, Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, etc. may rail against the sale and distribution of "knock offs" but they are also deeply hurt when their designs aren't copied and sold in the streets of Seoul, Taipei or NYC.
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EFF YOU JACKIE
BTW, design houses like Hermes, Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, etc. may rail against the sale and distribution of "knock offs" but they are also deeply hurt when their designs aren't copied and sold in the streets of Seoul, Taipei or NYC.
I am not disagreeing with you at all, I am applying your logic to the same scenario.
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I seriously doubt that Daimler has a problem marketing all the AMG models it can produce . . . just as the other designer houses have no problem marketing their wares since neither of them sit on inventory and infact keep prices high by limiting production. So, to say that counterfeit goods hurt the bottom line of the makers . . . highly unlikely, especially where distribution is not through an independent retail chain.
Are Mercedes dealers hurt? They'll still sell C, E and S class cars to be faked badged, in addition to the handful of real AMG cars they'll sell, so there's no apparent harm. Perhaps if AMG were being sold by Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales, then fakes might affect their sales like knock off Pradas, but that's not the model in play here. Rather than diminishing values, having the real deal in a world of copycats makes them that more valuable.
Are Mercedes dealers hurt? They'll still sell C, E and S class cars to be faked badged, in addition to the handful of real AMG cars they'll sell, so there's no apparent harm. Perhaps if AMG were being sold by Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales, then fakes might affect their sales like knock off Pradas, but that's not the model in play here. Rather than diminishing values, having the real deal in a world of copycats makes them that more valuable.
