Why should anyone purchase brand name electronics these days, when there are so many knock offs widely available? While many people are busy looking for signs that a MP3 player or DVD player is the real thing, there are many other people who really could not care less whether they are getting the real thing. It's all about the price, right?
This attitude is actually very wrong! Saving money is great and you should always try to get the absolute best deal possible when buying expensive electronics, but there are some good reasons to make sure that those deals are on real name brand goods, not cheap knock offs.
1. Knock offs purchased online sight unseen usually turn up looking nothing like the real thing. Often, colors are not quite right and there are buttons or pieces not quite in the right place.
2. In the case you do actually get a good knock off that looks just like the real thing, you may be thinking no one will know and you got a great deal. Then you go to turn it on and realize it doesn't work quite right. Many fake electronic products do not work as they should or some may not work at all.
3. There are also usually little annoyances with knock offs that do work. A music player may have a slight static noise. A DVD player may have inferior voice quality that makes it sound as if the people on TV are shouting through a tunnel. Picture quality may be lacking as well, or may go out rather quickly.
4. So, what if you get a good knock off that looks like the real thing and has decent quality? When you are satisfied with the quality, you are still very likely to feel the sting of the purchase in the long run. This is because knock off goods simply do not last as long as the real thing.
5. Since most knock offs do not have a long functional life, you will have to replace them more frequently than you would the real name brand item. If you have to continually replace the product, what happens to your savings? They go down the drain, that's what!
6. Finally, you have to understand that purchasing fake electronics rips off the real companies producing high quality goods to consumers who do want the real thing. If you hurt a company just to get a lower priced good, you are hurting the economy and your country as a whole! In fact, if more people would just buy the real thing, the consumer demand would lower the price eventually.
If your mind continues to trail back to the super low prices that you can purchase the knock off for, consider where those savings come from. Purchasing knock off or fake electronics is not the same as shopping selectively between two different name brands that offer products of similar quality. You can get great deals by shopping between brands, but when you buy products falsely claiming to be one of those brands, you are no longer comparing goods of similar quality. You are comparing a lump of gold to a lump of coal.
