Would You Buy a Black Market Bag?
10.08.10
," One of my friends told me last week while I was in New York. "They'll near you on the street and take you to their back room. My friends say it's a little weird, but to not be scared when they take you inside a building, because it's totally safe."
I undoubtedly would have tried my luck while I was there if I could have found the time, more for the experience of doing it than anything else. I mean, the whole thing sounds like something straight out of a spy story.
Yet when my Chanel-toting friend recounted her story to a group of women a few weeks ago, the opinions were mixed.
"Designer bags are like diamonds," one better half said. "Sure you can get a fake, but it's only special if it's the real thing."
"Besides, when you buy those bags, you're funding sweatshops and child labor and frightful working conditions in general," said another.
You could also be rewarding outright burglary. My friend noted with dismay that when she was perusing the backroom bags, while some Hermes Birkins were under a hundred dollars, others were priced in the low thousands. Simply, those bags were real -- and stolen.
Source: The Stir (blog)