GILLETTE Mach 3 Turbo/Mach3 blades

pin wrote:

What happens if they are bought from abroad, where they can be cheaper?

That is the infamous 'grey market' that hit the press when supermarkets like Tesco took on the cartels. In that instance Tesco wanted to sell amongst other items, replica football kits, ladies perfume and electrical items but the manufacturers refused to supply them on the basis that having their item sold in Tesco would devalue the brand.

Tesco managed to source some of these items, brand name jeans for instance, in Europe where the goods are sold cheaper than in the UK, they then offered them for sale in their UK stores at a lot less than RRP. If I recall some of the manufacturers tried to take Tesco to court for breaking some terms of sale or other, but Tesco won.

In those cases, and possibly in th ecase of razor blades on Ebay, the goods were 100% genuine but just from an unofficial source. However, I have absolutely no way at all of knowing where certain items on ebay are sourced, so could not be sure whether blades for instances are real or fake.

However, as has already been said, all suspected fakes should be reported through the official channels. Also, where manufacturers guard their sales it is worth seeing if they are part of the VERO scheme on ebay and if you feel strongly enough about it, refer them through that to the manufacturers.

Soo