Gabriela Margall

How To Spot Fake Cosmetics?

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• 28.04.2023
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Our advice on how to spot a counterfeit cosmetic

1. Uneven fill levels e.g. in eye-shadow palettes.
2. Faded packaging.
3. Misspelling on the packaging or in the information leaflet.
4. Slight differences in the name of the product or shade.
5. A different print (font or style) on the container.

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Is it OK to buy fake brands?

Stop Buying Fake Goods! These are 5 Reasons Why You Should Buy Original Products The production and the spread of fake goods are easily found in our society, from fashion to technology products. Financial aspects become one of the reasons why people like to buy fake goods which are considered far cheaper than the original.

Although buying fake goods is not illegal, such action should highly be avoided. Purchasing and using original brands will not only make you feel proud but also get the best and guaranteed quality. There are other reasons why you should consider buying the original, as described below. A Gesture of Appreciation for Artists In general, fake goods are counterfeit of the original products.

Creators of fake goods imitate the original products to make them look very similar. In fact, the creation of original products has involved a lot of thinking, creativity, and effort in order to produce the best quality products. Try to put yourself in the creator’s shoes, and imagine how does it feel if someone imitates your work and sell the products on the market to gain money.

• Whereas, you were the one who created the original work to be sold on the market.
• So let’s show our appreciation to the original artists or designers by purchasing the original products.
• Quality Comes with A Price In general, price is the common reason why people prefer to buy fake goods.
• People think that original products are too expensive compared to fake ones.

However, in determining the price of a product, the creator considers a lot of aspects. The high price behind original products comes with a lot of effort to produce the best quality. Starting from brainstorming, researching, production, quality control, to distribution, these phases are conducted to produce the original products with the best quality.

Therefore, customers can use the products for a long period of time. Let’s compare it with fake products. Although the price is more affordable, the quality is usually low, and you will not be able to use it for a long time. Hence, you will need to spend more money to buy a new one. In the end, using original products will save you money and time as you do not need to buy the same product more than once.

Collecting Items with An Investment Value Considering that original products have better quality and can be used for a longer time, people usually buy original products for their collection. Some of the original products even have investment value that can bring you profit in the future.

The original products that are considered as vintage goods can be sold at a higher price, for example, sneakers Yeezy 2 Red Octobers. In 2014, a pair of sneakers was sold for USD 250 or IDR 3,600,000. Now, it costs about USD 5655 or about IDR 82 million. The Price Gap is not too High Compared to the Fake Goods People usually buy fake goods that are considered to have a similar look and quality to the original ones but at a lower price.

If we look closely, the price gap between original and fake products is not too high. By adding a little bit more money, you can get the original products with way better qualities and can be used for a longer time. Avoid Illegal Action The production of fake products in Indonesia is still considered acceptable.

You can easily find counterfeit products both offline and online. The production of counterfeit goods can be regarded as a violation of copyright because they plagiarized other people’s work. In other words, when you buy or wear fake goods, indirectly, you are doing something illegal. If you wear fake goods abroad, there is a chance you will be punished.

The law against counterfeit goods is severe in foreign countries. Offenders can be subject to sanctions in the form of imprisonment for up to three years or pay fines of up to tens of thousands of dollars. After considering all the above, it is now time to stop purchasing fake goods and buy the originals instead.

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Is wearing fake products illegal?

Counterfeit goods – fake products deliberately made to seem genuine – have been produced and sold for many, many years, but the growth of the internet has made it easier for more counterfeiters to sell more goods to more people. Many are so skilled that it is almost impossible to determine a fake from the real thing.

Fake goods commonly sold online include designer garments and bags, watches, electrical items and cosmetics. The availability of pirated CDs, DVDs, games and software has declined as downloads and streaming become more popular. The manufacture and sales of counterfeit goods is illegal. Buying counterfeit goods, however, is not illegal, even if you do so knowingly.

However, there are many reasons why you should not do so.

Can a fake product have a barcode?

How Credible Are Barcodes To Assess Genuineness Of Products? Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You’re reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. Automated coding systems are becoming more and more prevalent in today’s technology, and the barcode has become an essential tool for scanning and tracking product information in the retail world.

The barcode, a series of black lines and numbers typically found on all products and on shop shelves, was introduced in 1974 and in no time became one of the most popular forms of data storage and retrieval for products across industries. When using barcodes to track goods, it can be difficult to know if the code is for a genuine product or not.

So, what makes a reliable, possibly trustworthy barcode? Read on. How does a barcode work? Barcodes are generated using software and the seller decides the information of each barcode such as name of manufacturer, date of manufacturing, date of expiry, price, quantity, etc.

This information is keyed into the software and a unique machine readable barcode is automatically generated. Each number from 0 to 9 is assigned a different set of black and white bars and the barcodes are generated according to the numbers assigned. Why is a barcode valuable to retailers? A barcode is a type of machine-readable code that can be used in retail to track inventory and track sales.

A barcode is unique to a product, so it can be used to track its movement throughout the supply chain. By knowing what products are in stock and which have been sold, retailers can make more accurate decisions about their inventory and marketing strategies.

1. In addition, scanning a barcode with a computer can help retailers determine which products are being bought and how much money has been spent on those products.
2. The innovation of barcodes was designed in a way, to communicate with scanners and printers.
3. But due to ever-changing technology innovation, many standards were developed, and the commonly accepted language for barcodes was termed, ‘symbologies’.

Out of this, there are two types of linear barcode—Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode in the US and European Article Number (EAN) in Europe—and, one type of matrix barcode: QR code. The UPC barcode consists of bars and spaces to represent, 12 digits of data and, EAN represents 13 digits of data.

• These digits of data are not randomly numbered, the string of numbers mentioned in the barcode adheres to the global standard which ensures authenticity and prevents falsely duplication of the product.
• The company obtain GS1 prefix from a GS1 member organisation as these create identification keys for trade items, logistical units, locations, parties, assets, coupons, etc.

GS1 is the only official provider of GS1 GTINs and EAN/UPC barcodes globally and these are necessary for most online and traditional retailers including Amazon, eBay, Alibaba, Google, Carrefour, Tesco and Walmart. How do barcodes help consumers? The unique digits on a barcode can fetch the product history by assuring the consumer and third-party seller of the genuineness of the product and the brand, which helps to build trust and maintain a reliable pace of selling them to the end consumer.

With the ever-growing smartphone market, it has become easy for most consumers to scan these barcodes or QR codes using a simple application on their smartphone. For example ‘Smart Consumers’ app by GS1 that empowers consumers to connect digitally with brands. Within seconds all the relevant information, product name, name of the manufacturer, place of the manufacturer, product description, ingredients, date of manufacturing and expiry, net content, etc.

This helps consumers check the genuineness of the product but is also a great comparison tool between the same product lines. This app also allows you to register complain about the product. However, there may be times when barcodes do not relay the required information.

These may be due to incompatible barcode scanner, printing on uneven packaging or transparent packaging or damaged or blurred packaging wherein the codes cannot be scanned. At such times consumers have to check the other details such as logos, packaging, form, colour of the product, invoice, receipts, labels, etc., to assess the authenticity of the products.

Are barcodes always reliable? Generally companies aim to have at least 99 per cent success rate in barcodes as any errors in barcodes can cost the company significantly. GS1 barcodes are scanned over 6 billion times each day, driving commerce around the globe.

And even 1 per cent error (approximately 6 million) in scanning is likely to have a huge cost impact on businesses. These would be cost of efficiency, cost of returns due to errors, cost of inaccurate invoicing, inventory tracking, customer dissatisfaction and more. Hence, businesses generally aim to have accurate barcodes.

In addition to barcodes, buyers should also check the packaging, logos, product detail before purchasing to gauge the genuineness of the products. Although with technological advancement it is difficult to generate fake barcodes, there have been instances where barcodes have been modified to a lower cost or to increase the quantity of products.

How do I know if a barcode is original?

UPC barcode numbers are not random numbers chosen by a brand owner, but a string of numbers which adhere to a global standard which enable products to be sold worldwide. To ensure authenticity and to prevent duplicate UPC barcodes from being assigned, the data in a UPC barcode must contain a UPC (GS1) Company Prefix issued by GS1 to a specific brand, an Item Reference Number assigned by the brand owner, and a Check Digit which is mathematically calculated.

What is the difference between fake and original ordinary products?

The Ordinary Products – texture and smell – The Ordinary often updates their formulas, so sometimes even the authentic products can differ. Another way to check if The Ordinary product you have is authentic is by the product itself; colour, texture & smell.