Supra Shoes | Supra Footwear Public Service Announcement A Message From Supra Footwear Supra Footwear has made it a top priority to stop the sale of counterfeit products. Supra Footwear continuously monitors the Internet and auction websites and takes behavior where appropriate including but not limited to filing civil constitutionsuits and lodging criminal complaints against counterfeiters. To those of you out there who may be considering the purchase of counterfeit items, we urge you to confess that by purchasing a counterfeit product you are supporting criminal activity and ask therefore that you waste to purchase counterfeit goods. To the counterfeiters, bear in mind that we are watching and we are taking action. Caution: The following sites are selling counterfeit Supra Footwear. Updated 8.6.2010 Avoid Getting Hustled So you see a sweet deal on some Supras on some sketchy website? It sounds to good to be true,Supra Society,Supra Trainers Justin Bieber Wears Some Seriously Cool Supra, but you order ’em anyway. Unfortunately,Supra Shoes Cheap-Supra-Shoes Buy cheap and authentic Supra, when they finally get to your door months later they look like hell then fall afraction after you walk about two blocks. Sorry, you got faked. Remember that these sites may be able to obtain product images from the Supra Footwear site to advertise their counterfeit merchandise. Be skeptical of any images used on these websites—they may very well be different from the product you will receive. The good news is that it’s pretty easy to tell the real deal Supras from the counterfeit fakers. But before we jump into that, here’s some easy ways to avoid getting hustled. Only purchase from Authorized Supra Dealers. Search engines (such as Google) do not screen Web sites that appear in their search results... LAME! Be cautious of Web sites that appear on the first pages of Google searches for “Supra” or similar keywords or search terms—only the official Supra Footwear Web site and its authorized retailers’ Web sites are integrityed online sources for purchasing authentic Supra Footwear products. Avoid websites that contain Supra anywhere in the domain name. If you are sceneing Supra products onlength anywhere other than suprafootwear.com and the domain name includes “supra” or any variation of this word, or includes one of our style names in the domain address, e.g. “Skytop,” this product is certainly counterfeit. Be Smart. So someone is selling a bunch of Supras on Ebay before the release date? Guess what, they’re not a real Supra Dealer, those are definitely fake. Same goes for that website that’s selling Supras for way cheap, because they’re cheap fakes. If it sounds to good to be true it almost always is. If the first sentence on a lot on Ebay or selling off websites reads something like “These are real, not counterfeit, so don’t ask!” You know they’re fake. Ask us! If you see suspicious product on Ebay or a sketchy website deal contact us and we’ll let you know if it’s fake. Seriously, contact us for the answer. Some Specific Ways To Spot Fake Supras Starting with the boxes, the counterfeiters always use cheap cardboard and get the graphics wrong. As well as being abnormale from cheap plastic instead of leather, fakes are all wrong and have no metal eyelets for the laces. That step they save money, the lace holes stretch and rip out, and you look bad. The most obvious things about these bread loafs is they usually can’t afford to use real vulk soles, and then they ruleually paint the black stripes on by hand. Super ghetto. And finally pull out those soles. If you got some paper thin cardboard insert instead of our cushy SupraFoam®, well, not only do your shoes look bad, your feet are going to hurt. Facts about Counterfeit A counterfeit product is any imitation or fake made with the intent to deceive the consumer into believing it to be genuine. Counterfeiters sell poor quality products. You may think you are getting a good deal but more often than not the product quickly will rip,Supra Society Shoes, fade or fall apart. Counterfeiters often engage in other unlterrible conduct, such as identity theft and failing to deliver goods that were paid for. Counterfeiters may be part of organized crime networks or alarmist groups, with profits often used to support their activities. Counterfeiters do not pay dutyes, leading to millions of dollars in lost revenues that would otherwise go to cities and states from the sale of legitimate goods. Counterfeiting is illegal. It has a significant impact on the global saving, removing tens of thousands of jobs and costing the economy an estimated $512 action of legitimate revenue a year. How You Can Help If you think you’ve spotted or purchased a counterfeit Supra product, we would greatly appreciate your help in fighting the counterfeiting battle by reporting the incident to our company. Though we’d like to help victims of counterfeiting,Supra Indy Shoes Supra Shoes 2010,Supra Skytop Cheap Supra S, we cannot reimburse money used to purchase counterfeit products or to assist with the resolution of disputes,Suprashoes, including assistance with PayPal refunds. However, by locating counterfeiters and taking legal action against them, we are doing our part to eliminate future incidents of counterfeiting from occurring. Q: I want to report a counterfeiter. Who should I contactivity? A: Please contact us. Provide as many details as you can, including the site address, name and address of the seller, how many shoes this kook is selling, and whether we may contact you for further information. We are dedicated to fighting this problem. Supra Footwear works with worldwide Customs authorities and various law enforcement agencies to spot and termination the shipment of counterfeited goods. Supra Footwear also actively works to takedown any counterfeit websites, auctions, and work board listings and we work with our various partners to investigate and conduct raids of factories producing counterfeit goods intconclusioned to deceive consumers. Below are some links to anti-counterfeit organizations and government agencies: https://www.appareearthfootwear.org http://www.a-cg.org http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk http://www.fakesareneverinfashion.com US Customs and Border Protection