There's A Sucker Born Every Minute...

One of the ladies I follow on IG, Makie, has a superb beauty channel, only sadly, alone inwards Portuguese in addition to sometimes inwards Japanese.

She posted such a photograph today:

Jedna z moich instagramek, Makie, ma swietny kanal kosmetyczny, tyle ze po portugalsku.
Dzis zamiescila takie to oto zdjecie:

Tak, wyglada jak SK-II sprzedawany ze straganu w okolicach stacji Ueno w Tokio.
Yep, this is what it looks like. SK-II sold from a street stand upwards somewhere around Ueno inwards Tokyo.

Dlaczego zamieszczam tutaj to zdjecie (za pozwoleniem Makie)?
Bo w ostatnich miesiacach kilka razy czytalam na roznych blogach i forach pytania kobiet przymierzajacych sie create kupna produktow SK-II na ebayu i pytajacych sie internetowych beauty medrcow, czy to aby nie podrobka za taka cene.
Hmmm... zazwyczaj, jesli cena jest zbyt cudowna aby byc prawdziwa, to kosmetyk tez raczej nie bedzie.

Why am I reposting this photograph hither (with Makie's form permission)?
Because during the in conclusion few months I've been seeing to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than questions to the cyberspace beauty gods on diverse blogs in addition to forums. Questions asked past times misfortunate women close to purchase SK-II products on ebay in addition to non sure whether they tin flame await the existent treat such a slap-up price.
Well, yous know, if the cost is likewise practiced to hold upwards true, in addition to hence the production won't hold upwards either.

Proste.
Ale szokujace jest jak wiele kobiet leci na nazwe marki i zupelnie traci jakikolwiek pozor zdrowego rozsadku i trzezwego myslenia.

Pewnie te same kobiety rowniez bylyby sklonne uwierzyc, ze towary na stoliku powyzej to oryginalne oryginaly. No bo przeciez to Japonia. Tutaj ludzie sa uczciwi. Tutaj nie oszukuje sie konsumenta.
Newsflash, wiekszosc osob obslugujacych takie stoliki to nie Japonczycy, choc pewnie wygladaja na Azjatow.

Stragany takie ustawiane sa w bardzo strategicznych miejscach obleganych przez naiwnych turystow, tak jak w przykladzie powyzej - Ueno.

Simple.
But it's shocking to run into how many women tin flame totally lose whatsoever semblance of mutual feel in addition to abandon the mightiness to intend rationally when faced alongside a care priced high-end cosmetic product.

And I suspect the same women would hold upwards willing to believe that the goods inwards the photograph inwards a higher house are the 1 in addition to alone real, master copy SK-II cosmetics that somehow, magically, constitute their means to the streets of Tokyo. Because it's Japan, right? People hither are honest, right? People hither don't cheat, right? Everybody knows that, right?
Well, newsflash for you, my dear...
The sellers most probable are non fifty-fifty Japanese, though they surely create aspect Asian.
And they are non stupid. Their stands are located inwards really strategically chosen locations total of naive tourists, similar inwards Ueno, for exmaple (where the inwards a higher house photograph was taken).

Wiec nie badz jeleniem.
Jesli cos jest za tanie, czy na ebayu, czy na ulicy w Japonii, Korei, lub gdziekolwiek, to nie tlumacz tego faktu wedlug swojego widzimisie, ale po prostu przyjmij create wiadmosci, ze to podrobka. I nie rznij potem glupa w necie, ze "to byla okazja" i ze "nie wiedzialam".
Teraz juz wiesz.
Jesli nadal nie jestes pewna czy to co chcesz kupic to podrobka, to przeczytaj powyzszy wpis raz jeszcze. Az create skutku.

Nie ma za co!

Don't hold upwards a sucker.
If something is likewise cheap, either on ebay, or on the streets of Tokyo or Seoul, or elsewhere, in addition to hence don't aspect for fantastic explanations why, only lead keep the fact that it's a fake.
And don't human activity similar an idiot afterwards that "I idea it was a exceptional deal" in addition to "I didn't know".

Well, straight off yous know.
If yous are withal non sure if that wonderful care on ebay volition purchase yous a genuine product, read this postal service again. And again. Until it finally clicks.

And you're welcome.

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