China trip

[USER1999]

Another glorious day in down town Dong Guan. This photo was taken from my hotel room, at 8.30 in the morning, and the visibility is already down to less than half a mile. To think we worry about pollution over here. Why do we bother? It's not us who are poisoning the world.

Downstairs in the hotel was a shop selling various branded clothes and shoes, mainly Gucci. My Chinese colleague was saying that the prices were extortionate, and that if we saw any thing we liked he could get it way cheaper. It was dirt cheap, and fake as.

They also sold golf clubs. I looked at a Vokey wedge, (which looked ok, but I am not hugely familiar with their current line up). This had the hugely expensive price of £15. New.

They had an RBZ driver, no price tag, a few TM burner drivers (the white one), no price tag, and some TM irons. These all looked pretty good, but again, I am not familiar with the real thing. The RBZ especially looked very real.

They did however have a few Titleist 909 drivers. This is a club I used to own, so I know it well. The fonts were slightly out, the paint fill was wrong, and so although they looked superficially ok, they are clearly fake. They also had a 906 fairway, which again, I have owned, and that really was a poor copy.

I would guess it's all fake. And cheap. I was going to go back in the morning and take some pictures, but they were not open. Shame. Can't believe they can copy an RBZ so quickly, and it really did look the bizzo.

 

[SyR]

It amazed me when I went to China, I honestly couldn't tell what was legit as there was so much fake stuff being sold. It made me doubt everything. I nearly bought some Nike trainers as they 'dike' in big letters on the sides...

The second time I went to Beijing I could really taste the pollution in the air. China may be polluting the world but it's to make the worlds products cheaply.

 

[CMAC]

they should produce without poisoning us all- we did it!

Anyone remember SMOG in our cities? I do, a thing of the past now in the UK but that polution in China is ridiculous.


Reminds me of Sean Locks skit about cleaning out Marmite jars to do our bit for the environment when you have China and the US polluting like crazy!

 

[Heidi]

oh man - that smog looks rank!
i thought their fakes were made in the same Callaway/Nike/titliest factories - they just have a night shift that comes in and continues where the day shift left off - but then sneak the clubs out the side door?

 

[shewy]

You sure thats not Billingham lol!

 

[Imurg]

Ooh Murph - the life you lead....!!

Sad thing is, they probably had RBZ fakes on the shelves before the RBZ was even released.....