bootlegs vs. originals

[FRANCO VESCOVI]

Oh I know. Just crazy to see someone called out after they go off on morals. And their machines are sold to the public.....that's all.

I don't feel called out one bit. Just an ignorant off topic comment by whatever his name is. I know plenty of reputable companies that have distributors that sell quality name brand equiptment, along with inferior and bootleg products whether it be machines, stencil goo, fake thermo fax paper, bootleg tubes, re modified power boxes with their brand on it and many other products.

How many of you know that tattoo ink is one of the most copied/bootleg products? Same recipe, just packaged differently. Whether 2 partners split up or the chemist does a backdoor deal to his tattoo artist friend. Now not all ink but a good amount. Then theres the black n grey wash systems? Every company now has their own bootleg version you could justifiably say were copied shortly after silverback launched.

At the end of the day it's not up to me or any other company to monitor each distributor or their morals because if that was the case, I'm sure each distributor is in violation of selling one or more items that fit our concerns. As for the general public, let's not fool ourselves, it's not hard to trick a company to getting an account and ordering product. I certainly don't agree with that but I'm not here to monitor the world, there are way too many distributors and too many tattoo artists.

To stick to the topic of this thread, at the end of the day each artist has a concious and moral choice of buying fake machines to save a buck and hes responsible for his choices. The worst part is that the fake machines don't ever work the same and in time it's not worth the hassle.