Fashion, Sports and Cosmetic
One of the most common counterfeited products due to the fast moving nature and profit margin. These days counterfeiters would outright priced their product just slightly below the actual product price when sold online. First time consumer would normally not aware of the counterfeits until the inferiority of the product starts to show.
Health and Pharmaceuticals
These counterfeiters are highly sophisticated and be able to create exact replicas of the actual product – and sold and priced according to the actual product. Some of the products can be often dangerous as materials used are not as claimed and can be detrimental to the consumer. At times, control items may also be sold in unauthorized channel or priced differently from the brand’s intended channel and pricing model.
Homeware and Electronics
Homeware and electronics companies often suffers high losses of revenue from trademark infringement and product replicas. These products are often sold at a fraction of the original price and has inferior quality make up. Some infringers even uses the trademark of the brands on their products and sold online.
Industrial products
From tractors to chain saws, industrial products are not spared from trademark infringers especially in the area of replacement parts. The commonly use tactics is to claim association or endorsement to the actual brand or as OEM alternative for replacement. The alternative products are often inferior in quality and can cause damages to the actual product or the consumer when use together. The counterfeits or OEM products causes the original brand it’s reputation and revenue.
Automobile
Like industrial products, the automobile also suffers from replacement parts counterfeits. From engine oil to auto parts replacement, there are numerous large scale counterfeits that are often offering inferior quality product for slightly cheaper price. They often prying on consumers that look for price discount and getting their vehicle damage from using these products.
Software
From games to productive software, these are so rampantly sold online for a fraction of the price by the software companies. Usually sold as cracked or hacked, these software often made it into the consumer computers with the risk of spyware embedded. The downloadable digital product also made it harder to trace and arrest these infringers culprits.
Entertainment
Despite the affordable and widely available online subscription for songs and movies, content infringers are still able to profit from selling aggregated songs or movies on online marketplace. Paddling on convenient, consumer often purchase these products without realizing the risk of spyware or breaking the law.
