Examples of rip off/knock off items...

[Cougar_ml]

Here is one that just came across a local overlanding group.

 

 

So if you can't tell, it's supposed to be a 65 amp hour sealed battery.

What it actually is looks to be about a 9 amp hour battery, and a battery case filled with concrete.

[Batesmotel]

What you bet it wasn’t made in the USA. 

[Batesmotel]

My first introduction to knock-off products was when all my friends got the first GI Joe’s. My cheapskate parents bought me a GI Hero from a discount store. We had the money for the real thing, they just wouldn’t spend it on us. 
 

It was a piece of junk. None of the accessories fit and it fell apart. Tough lesson for a little kid. A lesson well learned that has served me well. Buy quality and take good care of it. 

[railfancwb]

Just now, Batesmotel said:

My first introduction to knock-off products was when all my friends got the first GI Joe’s. My cheapskate parents bought me a GI Hero from a discount store. We had the money for the real thing, they just wouldn’t spend it on us. 
 

It was a piece of junk. None of the accessories fit and it fell apart. Tough lesson for a little kid. A lesson well learned that has served me well. Buy quality and take good care of it. 

They taught you a lesson, but I doubt it was the one they had intended. 

[Batesmotel]

1 minute ago, railfancwb said:

They taught you a lesson, but I doubt it was the one they had intended. 

You would be correct. Mom had “Issues”. 

[gwalchmai]

2 hours ago, Batesmotel said:

My first introduction to knock-off products was when all my friends got the first GI Joe’s. My cheapskate parents bought me a GI Hero from a discount store. We had the money for the real thing, they just wouldn’t spend it on us. 
 

It was a piece of junk. None of the accessories fit and it fell apart. Tough lesson for a little kid. A lesson well learned that has served me well. Buy quality and take good care of it. 

Army Pete. He was made of wood and in the rain he would swell up and then split.

[Duluth]

[railfancwb]

[Fog]

Anything Amazon Basic, total knock-off chicom imitation shaped **** with paint on the surface.

[Batesmotel]

21 minutes ago, Fog said:

Anything Amazon Basic, total knock-off chicom imitation shaped **** with paint on the surface.

A relative wanted my recommendation on a camera tripod. I recommended a Manfrotto. She gagged at the price. She bought an Amazon Basic that looked similar. One of the leg joints failed immediately. Luckily they saved the camera. Had to return the POS. Waisted a week and still bought a different POS from China. It won’t last long. 

[Huaco Kid]

I got a bootleg "Levi" blue-jean jacket from amazon.  (the price should have been a big red flag)

It's, kind of,  perfectly ok, so I decided to not care.  It's a pretty good knockoff.

It's got the red tag, on the chest pocket,  but just a tag,  no words.  Somewhere in the middle of making it,  they switched from yellow thread to white thread; looks funny.  The buttons and rivets just say "original".

I think the tag in the collar-neck is authentic.

[railfancwb]

When a company turns its designs and tooling over to a dishonorable entity for cheap it shouldn’t be surprised to see knockoffs appearing. 

[Batesmotel]

Back in the day of “White Van” speaker sales, we had one set up shop in our parking lot. We ran them off and they abandoned a nice looking knock off of some JBLs. 
 

At first glance the badges looked like the standard square JBL badge but it actually said JPL. When you looked through the grill it looked like the speaker had a tweeter, midrange and woofer. Pop the grill to find a small full range driver where the mid should be and the “tweeter and woofer” were just plastic discs stapled onto the cabinets. The box was real light. Made of 1/2 inch particle board in front with 3/8 sides and back. The only good component were the binding posts. They were actually pretty high quality but that’s something a buyer would see without  close examination of the rest of the speaker. 

[Hauptmann6]

Stanley tools made after 1955.

[pipedreams]

I have a Benchmade Infidel that is a knock off. It came in a Benchmade box with the mfg pamphlet and the black carry case.  This is a perfect match to the real thing until you take it apart. They even went as far a putting locktite on the screws.  Once you take it apart the insides are completely different than the original thing.  The price is the only clue unless your a Benchmade expert.