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Jean Paul Gaultier - Male - Purchased from B&M is a fake
Cronton
Posts: 3 Newbie
I have worn JPG Male for over 20 years and sometime last year I was doing a shop at my local B&M - when I got to the checkout, the woman asked me "Would you like some JPG cologne that we have on offer this week?" ... it was a good price (from memory, about half price) so I accepted the offer - thinking that I would keep it on-stock as my bottle at home was still quite new.
I have just come to open the new bottle, as I plan on taking on holiday in a few days time, but when I removed it from the presentation "tin" and used it, I found that it's clearly a fake - almost no smell and what smell there is, is nothing like JPG - which, after 20 odd years of use, I know extremely well.
As I bought it from a well-known store, not a street market or online seller, it never occurred to me that it wouldn't be the real item. Unfortunately, I no longer have a receipt.
Is there anything I can do?
I have just come to open the new bottle, as I plan on taking on holiday in a few days time, but when I removed it from the presentation "tin" and used it, I found that it's clearly a fake - almost no smell and what smell there is, is nothing like JPG - which, after 20 odd years of use, I know extremely well.
As I bought it from a well-known store, not a street market or online seller, it never occurred to me that it wouldn't be the real item. Unfortunately, I no longer have a receipt.
Is there anything I can do?
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Half price in a bargain shop and didn't think anything wrong?0
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unforeseen wrote: »Half price in a bargain shop and didn't think anything wrong?
I wouldn't expect a reputable retailer to be selling counterfeit goods. They are breaking the law.
Perfumes are ridiculously overpriced, and if I saw them at half price I would expect the retailer to still be making a profit.
OP should complain to the Head Office to try to get a refund, and/or report the retailer to Trading Standards.0 -
I would contact them. Whatever the rights and wrongs of it a goodwill gesture of some money or replacement product would be a likely result
on the other hand if you wanted to punish them then police or trading standards, but they may not take it seriously for £20.I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine0 -
I wouldn't expect a reputable retailer to be selling counterfeit goods
https://www.derryjournal.com/news/b-m-pie-face-toys-are-fakes-says-manufacturer-1-7109441
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2860378/Stores-Britain-selling-fake-bottle-Head-Shoulders-shampoo-containing-sex-change-chemical.html0 -
shaun_from_Africa wrote: »
Indeed, I doubt the stores are in any way complicit though. I would think discount stores are probably a easy target for selling one off shipments of fake goods. Show them the real thing, delivery and get the money. Probably takes people ages to realise and by then the company no longer exists.
And then the bargain company has to remove the product and they are the big loser.0 -
I have worn JPG Male for over 20 years and sometime last year I was doing a shop at my local B&M - when I got to the checkout, the woman asked me "Would you like some JPG cologne that we have on offer this week?" ... it was a good price (from memory, about half price) so I accepted the offer - thinking that I would keep it on-stock as my bottle at home was still quite new.
I have just come to open the new bottle, as I plan on taking on holiday in a few days time, but when I removed it from the presentation "tin" and used it, I found that it's clearly a fake - almost no smell and what smell there is, is nothing like JPG - which, after 20 odd years of use, I know extremely well.
As I bought it from a well-known store, not a street market or online seller, it never occurred to me that it wouldn't be the real item. Unfortunately, I no longer have a receipt.
Is there anything I can do?
With no receipt can you prove you bought it from the B & M shop?0 -
Is it possible that it is genuine but in the past you have bought cologne/perfume and this time it was eau de cologne or eau de toilette which are both much lower concentrate and are not a patch on the the better quality versions.0
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Old stock?
Don't perfumes lose their smell after a time, especially if they have not been stored correctly??0 -
Is it possible that it is genuine but in the past you have bought cologne/perfume and this time it was eau de cologne or eau de toilette which are both much lower concentrate and are not a patch on the the better quality versions.
No, because all Jean Paul Gaultier - Le Male - is Eau de Toilette spray. It's just the size that varies.0 -
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