Fujian Public Security Cracked Many Cases Of Selling Shoes And Clothing Online

Recently, the public security organs in Fujian have cracked many.

It is understood that the use of Internet trading platform selling is becoming a new trend of infringement of intellectual property rights and crime, showing a trend of multiple interests, forming a chain of interests: small businesses and small businesses in some cities along the southeastern coast produce large quantities of infringing products of counterfeit well-known brands, and sell them to all online stores through first and two wholesalers.

Internet sales are booming

Since this year (2011), the shoe market of Jun bamboo village in Mawei District of Fuzhou, which was originally depressed, suddenly ushered in a blowout of business volume, thanks to the rapid development of online shopping.

Active and shuttling in the more than 1000 square meter small shoe market is usually not the consumers who buy shoes, but the wholesale shop operators and express company employees. Here, there are more than 1000 shoe express orders sent to all parts of the country every day.

Lin Liang, chief of the Fuzhou economic and Public Security Bureau's Mawei Branch Economic Investigation Group, said: "a lot of fake and famous brand sports shoes and clothing are sold here, including Nike, Adidas, CONVERSE and other brands. Online trading has become a new channel for selling fake products. The sellers have set up online stores on some websites to sell infringing goods at a low price of 100 yuan to 300 yuan."

Police found that the police investigation found 3 counterfeit criminal gangs. They bought a large number of fake brand of sportswear and shoes in Guangdong, Fujian and Putian, and registered dozens of "merchants" on some websites. They sold fake Nike, Adidas, Lining, Puma, CONVERSE and other brand sports clothing and shoes through QQ, telephone and other contacts.

Most of the online stores sell mostly brand new shoes and apparel such as Nike and Adidas. The simulation is very high and the workmanship is fine. It is hard for ordinary consumers to find the true and false. One of the Adidas sports shoes with a market price of more than 1000 yuan is priced at only 300 yuan Online, and buyers come from all over the country and abroad.

Online shop operators pfer goods to higher level wholesalers or producers according to the number of orders received every day, and then deliver them through express channels.

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The root is lack of supervision.

Through interviews with many public security organs in Fujian, it has been learned that compared with traditional physical shops, the threshold and cost of setting up online shops are much lower than those of traditional physical stores. There is no need for shops, rents, or even registration of business and taxation.

In recent years, online shops are favored by more and more entrepreneurs, and online shopping is also in the ascendant.

At the same time, due to the low threshold of online shops and the lack of effective auditing mechanism, some lawless elements use loopholes in supervision, take the network trading platform as a selling place, collude with small workshops, small businesses and middle wholesalers and distributors in some coastal areas, forming a profit chain of offline fraud, wholesale distribution, online shop sales and express pportation.

From Fujian police seized the case, the counterfeiting enterprises are located in the coastal areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong.

Putian is an area where the footwear industry developed along the southeast coast is relatively early and its technology is relatively mature. From the case of Internet sales, police found that many producers of infringement products, wholesalers and online shop operators concentrated here.

Wang Dechun, Secretary General of Putian Footwear Association, said that since the 80s of last century, the footwear industry in Putian has been developing rapidly, mainly by export.

The profit of foreign trade is thin, and a pair of shoes can only earn 3 to 4 yuan. In pursuit of high profits, some small workshops and small business owners take risks. Under the background of the current online shopping boom, the production of counterfeit and counterfeit famous brand products has seriously affected the healthy development of the industry through Internet sales.

Putian City Public Security Bureau Economic Investigation detachment commander Wu Jiangshan, Li Cheng sub Economic Investigation Brigade leader Lin Bin said, from the police seized the case, the network sales of infringing products mainly include counterfeit well-known brands of luggage, shoes, clothing, etc., producers, wholesalers, distributors, shop operators and other levels of profits, forming a crime.