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counterfeit Pinarellos online? (or are they - IDK)

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Old 03-20-13, 04:23 AM
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They take credit cards.....so an adventurous sort might want to order something, and if it's counterfeit, you could always do a charge-back. If they were getting more than a few charge-backs for counterfeit stuff...they'd be unable to process credit cards......
Until they opened a company the next day under their cousin's wife's name...
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Originally Posted by Bob Dopolina
Ask them to show you their independent EN certification...
In fairness, Jack Chen from Miracle Trade sent me the independant EN 4.8.2-4.8.5 certification (conducted by SGS in April of 2012) of my ICAN-manufactured MC053 unprompted.

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Old 03-20-13, 08:38 AM
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If their production frames are as good as their samples you should be good to go.
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Originally Posted by Bob Dopolina
Until they opened a company the next day under their cousin's wife's name...
The real scary thing is: These clones end up on Ebay.....being sold as the real deal.
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I did a lot of searching on the net about the quality of these Chinese Frames and there are lot of negative comments and stories of them breaking. However there are only 4 such photos available.
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I'm impressed that you were able to get to the end of the internet to determine that only four such photos exist.
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Link went to a homeland security seizure page. Must be legit.
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