Hermes CEO: 80% Online Sale Of Hermes Is Fake.

Recently discovered in France. Hermes The "fake Gang" has greatly damaged the reputation of Hermes. What is more serious is that in the Chinese market, there is no "judge" to decide whether it is true or not.

Hermes may be a fake if they spend a lot of money? How should consumers identify it? For the identification requirements of Chinese consumers, the Hermes store emphasizes that the shop does not have the inspection service, and the French headquarters of Hermes also refused to respond to the fraud Gang found.

The amount of money involved is 140 million.

Legal media said: in Paris and Lyon, 12 arrested suspects were also arrested, including 2 dismissal. Hermes brand Employee. The announcement of the Hermes brand shows that there may be other incumbent employees involved in the fraud case.

According to a recent announcement issued by the French prosecutors, in the manufacturing workshop of secret fake and shoddy products, the "cottage" Hermes package and raw materials stacked together with 20 cubic meters were seized by the police, and it was difficult for ordinary consumers to distinguish the authenticity from the fact that they were made by the Hermes and manufactured in France, and the raw materials of the products were exquisite. French police also seized tens of thousands of euros in cash and some bank accounts, including 22 accounts opened in Hongkong, China and 3 accounts in Cyprus. "The book amount has reached hundreds of thousands of euros."

The industry believes that the "cottage" hermes It has gone through the official channels of Hermes to Europe, the United States and Asia. The French prosecutor said, "the survey shows that this is a complex and perfect international criminal organization." Paris prosecutors estimate that the total value of the counterfeit goods is up to 18 million euros (about 144 million yuan).

It is difficult to distinguish between genuine and fake.

Hermes CEO Patrick Thomas recently interviewed French media and said, "80% the goods sold on the Internet in the name of Hermes are all counterfeit goods, which is absolutely a disgrace."

In fact, similar incidents are not rare for Hermes. As early as April 2010, the bunny court of Senna Saint Denis, France, sentenced the former staff of Hermes to 3 years' imprisonment for counterfeiting hermes handbags. The court also issued an arrest warrant to arrest a Japanese couple who were suspected of selling these counterfeit products.

After the news came out, some consumers were nervous, worried that their products might be fake, and hoped that the store would provide inspection services. However, the reporters found that Hermes stores did not provide inspection services through interviews.

Several sales outlets in the interview said that Hermes has not yet established a unified after-sales service hotline in China, so if customers have doubts about the products, they can only negotiate directly through the counter.

Reporters at a Hermes store asked consumers whether they could provide inspection services as consumers. The salesperson said that the products purchased by customers in the shop were "no problem". They could not sell fake goods. The reporter asked for inspection again and again, and the clerk said no. The salesperson said that as long as the products purchased at the exclusive store are guaranteed to be genuine, each product will receive a special invoice from Heron store. The salesmen emphasized that their Hermes products were sourced from France.

A related person of Hermes company told the Morning Post reporter that the store asked "real or fake" more than two days ago, and the company is still in further confirmation, so it is not convenient to give relevant reply. This time, the news of Hermes fake went crazy on the Internet, and some netizens said, "the image of this brand in my mind is sharply reduced."

Suing the Chinese enterprises for "counterfeiting" for 100 million dollars

It is reported that Hermes and another luxury brand won the lawsuit in the Manhattan court in New York, the United States. At the same time, the two companies also prosecuted some Chinese factories to illegally copy their trademarks and imitate two companies' commodities. For these reasons, the Chinese companies paid 100 million dollars (about 636 million yuan) to the two luxury brands respectively.

France has an international leading position in the luxury and cosmetics industry. Over 131 thousand Frenchmen are employed in these industries. However, according to the French national anti counterfeiting Committee, because of the rapid development of counterfeit luxury goods, the impact on the legitimate market has been continuously impacted, resulting in the loss of 30 thousand to 40 thousand jobs and 6 billion euros (about 48 billion 115 million yuan) economic losses in every fiscal year of the country.

Hermes stores do not provide identification services.

Reporters also learned about the Hermes store in Guangzhou. A staff member of Libai square store told reporters that the brand does not provide identification services, "because we have not received any professional training." The clerk said so.

According to the reporter, at present, Hermes has not authorized the sale of its products to the website. Now, only the few countries in the United States, France and other countries have provided the sales service for the official network of Hermes, "only genuine products purchased from official channels."

In fact, it seems that consumers who buy luxury goods find it difficult to identify agencies. Apart from exclusive stores, some businesses that offer second-hand luggage repurchase services also do not provide identification services.

To this end, the reporter visited the Milo station on Tianhe Road, a company claiming to be the main operator of recycling, selling, consignment, and cleaning luxury goods. The staff at the station told reporters that "if there are bags sold, they can be taken to the store for special inspectors, but they do not provide external identification services." The appellant company reporter, if the invoice of the relevant entity store is easier to sell, the online shopping bags will not be excluded. Therefore, if there is a physical shop invoice or sales document of course is the best, but it is best to undergo professional identification.