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Originally Posted by StylinRed
one of my close friends buys lots of watches but he keeps it @ a low budget he'll get fakes too and when someone says "nice watch" the first thing he says is "thanks, its fake though" he just doesn't care
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I'm really interested in your friend's reasoning.. He just buys fake watches for no reason? Or to collect.. but why would someone collect fake watches along with authentic watches.. That kind of ruins the credibility of your authentics..
Judging aside, I'm genuinely interested in someone's pure reason for buying a fake other than for showing off to people who don't know watches, and/or a false sense of pride.
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Originally Posted by Energy
He only says that when he is found out but is happy to take compliments from people that do not know anything. It cannot be that he bought it just because it looks good as there are cheaper options that have the same look but without the brand like others have mentioned. I think that even if I just assume that people that buy fakes want respect it is still a pretty accurate assumption.
I think PJ was saying exactly what I was saying too and not the other way around... These people know that they bought fakes and it isn't as bad if they "got it as a gift". What they are doing is directing the shame away from themselves and playing innocent.
Now if they actually did get it as a gift then that's a bit different but they still have the choice of whether or not to wear it.
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This really summed up everything.
Saying "it was a gift" is an easy way out for when you get called out. I'm sure more often than not, they would tell the gift story, rather than "I bought a fake."
For the sake of argument/entertainment.. I thought of a farfetched legit scenario to wear a fake watch...
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If someone received a fake watch as a gift, and was in a situation where he had no other watch but NEEDED to wear one, so he had no choice but to resort to wearing the fake.
