weather it be a football shirt or a pair of trainers someone somewhere in the world will be able to make a 1:1 copy of it regardless of materials used BUT its one thing copying the mod in every way and actually branding it with engraving and a serial number as that is actually duping the customer into thinking its the genuine product which is very wrong.
i own £1000s worth of genuine GG products which i have collected over the 4 years ive been
vaping and i also owned/tried some of the recent copys/snides that are available to buy which in reality is my choice to own and try if i so wish and to be fair to some of the chinese the quality of some of this is remarkable, not 100% GG quality but very good all the same.
i recently tried the ithaka clone and could not tell the difference in use and could only tell it was a copy as it had no engravings of any sort but putting it side by side with 1 of the 6 GENUINE ithakas i own it was very hard to tell the difference as even all parts fitted each other.
my point here is not to criticise anybody or take sides but not everybody can afford or want branded goods and im sure imeo should also feel very flattered that his brand is out their for the world to see and has been copied the world over and im also sure that those who like to buy genuine GG products (myself included) will continue to buy them weather the copys continue or not but what i must say is it is very wrong for the copiers to pass their goods off as the genuine article with the engraving when their is no life time guarantee plus it will make it a nightmare for anyone buying anything GG related second user as its very hard to tell if it is genuine or not.
one last thing is i need 2 x SS vented bottom caps for a couple of my GGTS which i have not been able to get new as all sellers are out of stock so i have had to put an add up in various forums and now ive been inundated with offers but i dont know if im going to be buying genuine or fake