She was absolutely not selling those tacky designs for the prices that they said she was, literally any person with eyes and 2 brain cells could tell those were fake not even mentioning "luxury customers". 100 percent just trying to make this story bigger she was probably selling them for 75 dollars max
Mario, you nailed it. When I saw the front of that store and then saw the thrift store looking interior floor plan I knew right away the people who came into her store knew exactly what they were buying. No one got scammed here. The media is such a joke these days.
I came here to make that exact point. It looked so tacky outside, you’d expect it to be a place homeless people could get free clothes or something like that.
Yea you’re right. They threw the designer brand’s retail on each item so they could charge her with larger sentences. 30 years in prison compared to 8. Just an example.
I mean you get what you pay for unless its counterfeit. Designers like Chanel and Gucci use good quality materials and don't source their labor from borderline slaves in Asian countries. It's most definitely worth the price tag to support fair labor and good quality long lasting clothing.
I doubt she was selling the products directly from the store, it was most likely sold on the internet and she used the location to create and store the fake products...
Buying “designer” items from a random store is just dumb. Plenty of designer boutiques and high end department stores in Long Island and NYC if they really wanted to buy them. Or simply order online. Gucci doesn’t even make those headbands as far as I am aware. Can’t say I feel bad for the people she scammed…
it’s very dumb. if I have money, why would I buy some high end items from the back of a warehouse? yet I know someone thinks that some warehouse sells high end items for cheaper. I guess if they want high end items but they don’t have money for it, this is an alternative.
@@joypang5458 She isn't selling them from the warehouse, she is probably selling them online. She was making them there but not selling them from the boutique. And those price tags aren't cheap at all.
I mean.... she's basically doing what these "designer" companies do in their factories in her basement. Yeah it's counterfeit fraud but in terms of the actual product I'm sure it's basically identical to the real thing in all but where it's manufactured. Crazy that people hold so much value to brand names when the actual material cost of the product isn't worth more than a couple bucks.
OK the quality of the real products cannot but looked past but quite honestly they do alot to bloat the price up but what actually makes it really expensive is the brand name plastered on their products, you aren't paying for the product, you're paying for the brand name on the product...
I low key respect this hustle so much. Anyone willing to pay thousands for an easily replicated article of clothing for the name brand deserves to get swindled. This scam doesn’t target elderly people. It targets elitist fools. However, I suppose financially insecure people will be vulnerable to an impulse of a “discount.” Meh, money smarts over money speaks.
I wouldn't even bother in persecute her, i mean their costumers where happy, she was making money, the quality was the same since both merchandise come from the same cheap sweat shops 😆 Let the mom make money and let the idiots be idiots
Cheap material. Ppl trusted her. Go to the store or department stores only. You can tell the difference in quality by b a big margin. Someone caught on by comparing the real item with her bull
So what? People can spend their money on whatever makes them happy. If someone's paying that much money for something they would expect high quality and the real thing
It’s more important things for the police to be worried about if it’s not in the actual designer store than you have to know it’s fake or a knock off 💀🙄
@@eddieg6436 That’s the problem with Beverly Hills. There is no way in hell I would spend that much money on a purse for myself let alone some dumb teenager
@@LoveMyBoys3 ……..So I guess the FACT that 6 out of 10 young women (16- say 25) in Beverly Hills drive $150,000-$200,000 Mercedes G-wagon SUVs gifted to them from family would be a problem for you too?!? 😊😂😊😂
She was selling them off as authentic luxury designer clothing and products, so I understand why she’s being arrested. However, if she was selling fake products and telling her customers they were fakes, I don’t think it’s that serious at all.
It's not illegal because the customers know they were fake. It's illegal because she used the real companies trademarked logos and designs on her counterfeit products.
I'm not rich at all, and even if I became rich there's no way I'd be spending all that money on clothes that cost that much. I rarely buy big name-brand clothes anyway. I feel very bad for the children of that mom who sold those false clothing items. If the dad's not around to take care of them while the mom's locked up, I hope they've got good grandparents, aunts or uncles to live with.
@@kittensvsdragons6193 Yes I hope that becomes my reality one day. I've been trying to win some money to become rich, but not by gambling. I also wouldn't be selfish with my money if I was rich either. After all, I'm not selfish with the money I have now.
I mean a lot of boutiques sell these "designer inspired" items...but they sell them cheap. They arent selling them at the real designer prices like this lady...although I'm sure she's not the only one out there..
$5000 for a sweatshirt? That's a few mortgage payments for some people. Insane. I've worn counterfeit brand name t-shirts before. They only cost me like $8 each. Then i came to the realization... why the hell am I making myself a free, walking advertisement for these companies?
I don’t know what to make of this. Am I supposed to be appalled by the counterfeit of a $3 baseball cap or by the markup of designers using the same $3 baseball mass produced at the same place as the counterfeit to $300?
Ikr? Tbh, I'm just relieved it's not a story that enrages and depresses me, so it's kind of a nice break lol. Feels so low stakes with no one really getting terribly hurt.
All the people buying this junk has obviously never seen luxury items in person. Also, to go into a shop like that and see an Hermes anything would be an absolutely massive and unquestionable red flag
Imagine actually being able to spend hundreds on a single clothing item and you don’t even go to the real store or website to buy it. Big brain stuff right there
It's not $40 million worth of merchandise. The investigator even said himself "this is a $3 baseball cap." If she sold everything, sure, maybe she could make $40 million but she probably has less than $1 million worth of inventory there.
The point is the potential product she had and was going to sell was $40 million, so that's it's worth. The funny thing is at the end of the day it's literally what clothing makers do. Slap the brand or logo on it and suddenly you have people willing to pay thousands.
I don't feel bad for people who spend more than $100 on clothing items and even that's a stretch. Society really needs to change how we value things. It's pretty fked.
$100 is not terrible when it comes to high quality clothing. Expensive when compared to a $20 tee from hollister? Sure. But a Ralph Lauren polo will last years if not decades, while the hollister tee will be stretched, wrinkled, and faded after like 3 washes. Prints crack, lose color, or just fall off on cheap stuff. It’s better to spend more on quality items that will last 10x longer than cheap items that you have to keep replacing
If your willing to pay $5000 dollars for fake designer products why not just go to the actual store and spend that $5000. She been hope those brands do come after her for money lost.
1:10 "That's a Typical Baseball hat you buy for $3. They put the Gucci stuff on it, it now sells for $400" Soooo... how's that any different than a regular Gucci product?
@@mytruecrimelibrary yea I feel like that separate ppl who trying to be show off as well. Because at the same time you can still buy a designer that just have it on the collar wear no one can see .
If they sell Gucci everything that isn't from a Gucci store, most likely it'll be a counterfeit. My question is what's the point of hat, purse, etc being over 1k$?
I say she is smart who completely understood the psychology of this generation. If she lowered the price a little, she'd be doing a great favor for the unfortate people by making high end brands alternatives
@@meowiestwo Cloning of items and making it a business is blooming these days especially with the current technology, it is possible to make a clone of nearly everything and even an iPhone is not an exception in this case. Apple product clones like the iphone, airpod... have been in the market for the longest time and many people have been taken advantage of for their desire to buy the famous Apple product. It is of course stealing but they're doing the public a huge favor. And they're very much reasonably cheap.
@@elias6406 okay buddy. Still illegal to sell counterfeit goods in the US. She messed up and got caught. And nobody “needs” Gucci. She wasnt doing them a favor, she was stealing protected IP. It sucks to suck.
Oh they absolutely destroyed everything with a logo on it. Those companies would never let poor people dilute their brand. They will burn good clothing in front of them with zero remorse
@@Xrvh-l5p 😂 noo Ross sells name brand clothes for real cheap. The only thing is there is most likely a defect on it. The one in my city has Michael Kors, Chanel, ect. But no Gucci 🤣
Maybe they should donate all the clothes that aren't branded and destroy the ones that have the product name so nobody else can get scammed again. I guess it depends on where they donate but if it's a non-profit thrift store there is a chance someone will buy it and sell it as an authentic.
Nah, who cares. There's a massive surplus of fake designer stuff in circulation anyway, if it can keep someone clothed rather than going to a landfill that would be so much better. If people wanna buy sketchy stuff they can't verify that's on them and the scammer.
Yeah, as if the original were made out of the materials that you can only find on meteoroid or on the moon and they’re all have been made by leprechauns 😂
🤣 👉Her customers were paying a FRACTION of the prices that man stated. No one is paying full price from an unofficial store. That little guy is nuts! 🙈 Cheers everyone! 😀🥂
SERIOUS QUESTION. What's the difference between what she did and what people sell as "knockoffs"? Is it because she wasn't telling the buyers that it's a knockoff??
What a Crook How ever what type of people pay those outrageous prices for any of this merchandise They need to stop their Greed for Luxury &help people in Poverty !!
Though this woman was running a scam, it could also be argued that she revealed a bigger scam, it's just that her's is "illegal", and the other is "legal".
It's never ok to lie to people. Some people want something nice and save for it. If she told them that's one thing but lying is horrible. Also how on earth did people not know that was fake?
This was an online business that sold fake designer products that customers knew were fake, she sold them for super cheap in comparison to the real stuff.
This is the definition of paying for brand, not usability. I wouldn't feel bad for anyone who messed up their gucci clothes somehow I would just say "maybe just wear a $20 shirt it does the same thing"
If people really know the brand and have shopped at an original store, I am surprised they were duped! They obviously really do not know designer items! Oh wait strip mall in N J???? Um ya, they deserved the dup! 😁
I really want to hear from someone who has shopped there though…like if I passed by Linny’s, it would remind me of the places in downtown LA…where it’s so obvious that they’re knockoffs. Idk…selling “designer” stuff at some random place is already a red flag to me lmao.
People who have never had a real chanel sweater. I think she was selling them online and offering discounts. My question is, how did the cops know to go and search her store? They can't search without a warrant...what probable cause did the have to get the warrant? Some of her customers must have recognized she was selling fakes and reported her.
I doubt much of that was actually donated. Companies would send out a hitsquad before a poor African was caught wearing anything with their logo on it.
@@benclique6276 if you’re stupid just say it 😂 the fact that she’s been pulling this scam for years and her customers couldn’t tell the difference says everything.
She was absolutely not selling those tacky designs for the prices that they said she was, literally any person with eyes and 2 brain cells could tell those were fake not even mentioning "luxury customers". 100 percent just trying to make this story bigger she was probably selling them for 75 dollars max
True
Mario, you nailed it. When I saw the front of that store and then saw the thrift store looking interior floor plan I knew right away the people who came into her store knew exactly what they were buying. No one got scammed here. The media is such a joke these days.
I came here to make that exact point. It looked so tacky outside, you’d expect it to be a place homeless people could get free clothes or something like that.
Yea you’re right. They threw the designer brand’s retail on each item so they could charge her with larger sentences. 30 years in prison compared to 8. Just an example.
@@CJ-cc5jm she lived by that price, she should die by that price. Also she sold A lot online so it’s easy to fool people with pictures
This just shows that designer clothing isn’t worth the price tag
this is not even slightly close to how authentic designer clothing is made 😂😂😂😂
@@samanthacauvin7253 but still the price is outrageous
Best comment here! Capitalism is irrational 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
I mean you get what you pay for unless its counterfeit. Designers like Chanel and Gucci use good quality materials and don't source their labor from borderline slaves in Asian countries. It's most definitely worth the price tag to support fair labor and good quality long lasting clothing.
i feel a presence.. a presence i haven’t felt since… *walks off*
What blows my mind is how anyone could be convinced that a strip mall store like Linny's was giving you the goods.
This!! Especially if she didn't even fake "consignment" the discount. Get your lies together...lazy scammer
I say the same stuff. Ain't no way in hell. Unless she got the hook up but that's never the case
I doubt she was selling the products directly from the store, it was most likely sold on the internet and she used the location to create and store the fake products...
Exactly! Especially, with the name. Never seen a high-end store in a strip mall.
Lmao right!
Buying “designer” items from a random store is just dumb. Plenty of designer boutiques and high end department stores in Long Island and NYC if they really wanted to buy them. Or simply order online.
Gucci doesn’t even make those headbands as far as I am aware. Can’t say I feel bad for the people she scammed…
it’s very dumb. if I have money, why would I buy some high end items from the back of a warehouse? yet I know someone thinks that some warehouse sells high end items for cheaper. I guess if they want high end items but they don’t have money for it, this is an alternative.
Buying designer goods is just dumb...
@@joypang5458 She isn't selling them from the warehouse, she is probably selling them online. She was making them there but not selling them from the boutique. And those price tags aren't cheap at all.
@@joypang5458 Why would you even buy the real stuff? It all looks tacky af with their logo plaster all over the item.
@@RichardWhite50033 I don’t. Just saying why would I buy a fake?
Donated to charity. This is gonna be epic seeing everyone wear branded clothing
i laughed harder then i should have🤣🤣😂
Underrated comment
In all honestly, its hard to feel bad for the people who spend 4000 on a single piece of clothing
Same here
My most expensive cloth is
1$
If some people can afford it, why be mad at them for it?
@@Mister_LRT who said mad .... Just don't feel sorry. 2 different things kiddo.
No kidding!! Jeeze.. my daughter very first car at 18 wasn’t that much… lol
I mean.... she's basically doing what these "designer" companies do in their factories in her basement. Yeah it's counterfeit fraud but in terms of the actual product I'm sure it's basically identical to the real thing in all but where it's manufactured. Crazy that people hold so much value to brand names when the actual material cost of the product isn't worth more than a couple bucks.
Lol.. so true
OK the quality of the real products cannot but looked past but quite honestly they do alot to bloat the price up but what actually makes it really expensive is the brand name plastered on their products, you aren't paying for the product, you're paying for the brand name on the product...
And it's her life too
Still earning money
She’s a fraud no matter what way you bend it
@@johnz1673 shut up
I low key respect this hustle so much. Anyone willing to pay thousands for an easily replicated article of clothing for the name brand deserves to get swindled. This scam doesn’t target elderly people. It targets elitist fools. However, I suppose financially insecure people will be vulnerable to an impulse of a “discount.” Meh, money smarts over money speaks.
I wouldn't even bother in persecute her, i mean their costumers where happy, she was making money, the quality was the same since both merchandise come from the same cheap sweat shops 😆
Let the mom make money and let the idiots be idiots
Cheap material. Ppl trusted her. Go to the store or department stores only. You can tell the difference in quality by b
a big margin. Someone caught on by comparing the real item with her bull
At the end of the day people only buy designer for the logos
So what? People can spend their money on whatever makes them happy. If someone's paying that much money for something they would expect high quality and the real thing
Don’t bother 😊
One of my biggest pet peeves: super expensive “designer” items that aren’t even the real thing. Unbelievable, headbands for $300
"retails" for 300 but you can get it now for an awesome 9.99 and one buy get one free .....
It’s more for money laundering same with art
It’s more important things for the police to be worried about if it’s not in the actual designer store than you have to know it’s fake or a knock off 💀🙄
You realize the police have separate divisions, like fraud and counterfeit division
Exactly
Anyone who spends $5,000 on a shirt needs mental help!
…..Here in Beverly Hills, California $5,000 is a handbag for your 16 year old niece.
@@eddieg6436 That’s the problem with Beverly Hills. There is no way in hell I would spend that much money on a purse for myself let alone some dumb teenager
I fully agree Mental assistance is needed
@@LoveMyBoys3 ……..So I guess the FACT that 6 out of 10 young women (16- say 25) in Beverly Hills drive $150,000-$200,000 Mercedes G-wagon SUVs gifted to them from family would be a problem for you too?!? 😊😂😊😂
@@eddieg6436 Bet your ass!
Anyone remember when Payless made a fake high end shop and people ended up paying about $800 for shoes that were only worth about $20. 🤣
That outlines society's stupidity.
Legendary
Yes!! Lol 'so Chic'
Oh yeah! What was the name of that store,lol? Had a very elegant name to it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
She was selling them off as authentic luxury designer clothing and products, so I understand why she’s being arrested. However, if she was selling fake products and telling her customers they were fakes, I don’t think it’s that serious at all.
it's still illegal to sell fakes
@@zoals1 Yeah, but at least the customers would’ve known.
@@usmzn yes usman in your made up fantasy world but that wasnt her intention, it was to scam people....
@@usmzn "Hey, I just wanna let you know that this designer jacket is fake. Wanna buy it for $4000?"
It's not illegal because the customers know they were fake. It's illegal because she used the real companies trademarked logos and designs on her counterfeit products.
I'm not rich at all, and even if I became rich there's no way I'd be spending all that money on clothes that cost that much. I rarely buy big name-brand clothes anyway. I feel very bad for the children of that mom who sold those false clothing items. If the dad's not around to take care of them while the mom's locked up, I hope they've got good grandparents, aunts or uncles to live with.
Not if when you become rich! 💵
@@kittensvsdragons6193 Yes I hope that becomes my reality one day. I've been trying to win some money to become rich, but not by gambling. I also wouldn't be selfish with my money if I was rich either. After all, I'm not selfish with the money I have now.
Designer clothing is just another way the rich launder money
I mean a lot of boutiques sell these "designer inspired" items...but they sell them cheap. They arent selling them at the real designer prices like this lady...although I'm sure she's not the only one out there..
$5000 for a sweatshirt? That's a few mortgage payments for some people. Insane.
I've worn counterfeit brand name t-shirts before. They only cost me like $8 each. Then i came to the realization... why the hell am I making myself a free, walking advertisement for these companies?
Plus that's the ugliest sweatshirt I've seen. Hard pressed to even pay 5 bucks for it
you’re broke and still want to flex 😂
@@benclique6276 It works. No one will know. Dudes a genius actually lol
i built my house for under 5 thousand
Dont use counterfeit of anything bruh, no need to pretend. Support other brands/businesses doing legitimate work.
Why do people want to buy a piece of clothing that expensive...to look expensive? Do you really need external validation that badly?
it’s called being able to afford it…obviously you can’t 😂
@@benclique6276
its called getting scammed
@@benclique6276Buddy that's so lame, the richest look the simplest. These luxury brands target only those who want to look rich.
@@benclique6276 Ever heard of Steve Jobs? He must be poor too.
@@hamzaalberta8335 yeah tell that to justin jefferson or lil uzi vert.
I don’t know what to make of this. Am I supposed to be appalled by the counterfeit of a $3 baseball cap or by the markup of designers using the same $3 baseball mass produced at the same place as the counterfeit to $300?
Rick Owens did this recently and people were not happy
Ikr? Tbh, I'm just relieved it's not a story that enrages and depresses me, so it's kind of a nice break lol. Feels so low stakes with no one really getting terribly hurt.
they dropped the ball on this article.
Damn they should give her a job and a raise!!!
Anti counterfeit laws have to be enforced as it undermines consumers faith in goods and ultimately hurts the economy.
"Take a 3$ hat and put the logo on it now it's a 400$ hat" That's not counterfeit that's just factory standard.
All the people buying this junk has obviously never seen luxury items in person. Also, to go into a shop like that and see an Hermes anything would be an absolutely massive and unquestionable red flag
Thanks to charity, everyone is gonna be looking expensive out there 😂
Y’a can’t wait to see homeless folks , I hope they stroll by Rodeo Drive
Imagine actually being able to spend hundreds on a single clothing item and you don’t even go to the real store or website to buy it. Big brain stuff right there
haha totally
Ppl think they winning if they buying an item less than the asking price
Exactly
3 years for $40mil? Sounds like a good deal!
Sounds like the American justice system working like it supposed to
@@calvinhodge8422 but she didn't sell all of the 40mil products.
@@mahbubmo What do you think she was planning to do with 40mill worth of counterfeit products. Throw them in the garbage?
@@calvinhodge8422 😂😂
@@calvinhodge8422 ok smartass.
I'm glad they're doing something good with the clothes
Imagine having the audacity to spend $3K on a headband yet you can't distinguish the quality between a fake and the counterfeits. Speaks by itself.
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN QUALITY !! LMAO
Basically she's prosecuted for unauthorized use of a brand/trademark. Just it.
Funny how they went after the seller instead of the manufacturer
It's not $40 million worth of merchandise. The investigator even said himself "this is a $3 baseball cap." If she sold everything, sure, maybe she could make $40 million but she probably has less than $1 million worth of inventory there.
Facts
More like $4,000 worth of merchandise.
The point is the potential product she had and was going to sell was $40 million, so that's it's worth. The funny thing is at the end of the day it's literally what clothing makers do. Slap the brand or logo on it and suddenly you have people willing to pay thousands.
I don’t see how buyers believed that boutique was selling authentic Gucci & Chanel.
By 40 million he meant she was going to sell thousands of dollars worth of merchandise for 40 million….
I don't feel bad for people who spend more than $100 on clothing items and even that's a stretch. Society really needs to change how we value things. It's pretty fked.
100 dollar clothing ? Majority of nice jackets cost that much. They last life time
Tell me you over consume fast fashion without telling me you over consume fast fashion
$100 is not terrible when it comes to high quality clothing. Expensive when compared to a $20 tee from hollister? Sure. But a Ralph Lauren polo will last years if not decades, while the hollister tee will be stretched, wrinkled, and faded after like 3 washes. Prints crack, lose color, or just fall off on cheap stuff. It’s better to spend more on quality items that will last 10x longer than cheap items that you have to keep replacing
Exactly
Dude everybody dibt want cheap clothing and can afford to do better. Stop hating. I value alot ov things
If your willing to pay $5000 dollars for fake designer products why not just go to the actual store and spend that $5000. She been hope those brands do come after her for money lost.
Glad they're donating them rather than destroying them! Good on that!
If you're paying that much for a single item, you deserved to be scammed lol
No they do not deserve it wtf
@@msunje9862 they already got scammed buying it the first place 😵💫🤣🤣🤣
- From a poor person
@@sillycheese301 not wanting to spend $5k of my money on a sweatshirt makes me poor? you're a clown
sorry that you’re too poor to enjoy luxury goods. not our problem that we work harder than you and make more money
so....it's getting donated to fool someone else?
LOL
🤣 HAHAA YOU FUNNY
1:10 "That's a Typical Baseball hat you buy for $3. They put the Gucci stuff on it, it now sells for $400"
Soooo... how's that any different than a regular Gucci product?
It’s due to velbum effect when it comes to economics consumer buy luxurious goods because it make them “feel” good
My question exactly
I don't understand the appeal of guicci stuff? Everything they sell looks ugly to me...
She may get 3 years in prison, but has millions in the bank. It’s so worth it.
Yep
Can't believe she's 31. She easily looks early to mid 40s.
Facts😂
When she finally do Hit 40 she will look 60ish.
YES ! SHE IS VERY PRETTY FOR AN OLDER WOMAN !!
It’s freaky. I’m 35 and I feel like she looks several years older than me.
Tbf 300$ for a real designer headband is also a scam.
Agree
Hell yea . When you talk to those ppl that actually buy those items it's because they want to be exclusive. Ig to each its own
@@Travis73917 so true. I refuse to wear anything that has a logo on it. Makes people look like they don't have a personality .
@@mytruecrimelibrary yea I feel like that separate ppl who trying to be show off as well. Because at the same time you can still buy a designer that just have it on the collar wear no one can see .
If they sell Gucci everything that isn't from a Gucci store, most likely it'll be a counterfeit. My question is what's the point of hat, purse, etc being over 1k$?
Look at me items..
Yeah, only real brand manufacturer have a right to scam 😂
@@zee9709 lol they just poke eyes… lol 1k for a shirt… lol nope
Exclusitivy. Elite don't want to wear the same as normal people Exsotic fabrics and people making these pieces costs
Good for her, providing for her family😌
Dude just explained how the real brands make their actual product 😂
I say she is smart who completely understood the psychology of this generation. If she lowered the price a little, she'd be doing a great favor for the unfortate people by making high end brands alternatives
thats lowkey kind of saying Walter White or anybody else selling drugs, was justified.
they’re patented brands. you’re moronic mind would probably think building a fake mcdonald’s without their permission would be genius 💀
Except stealing the IP of brands like Gucci and LV is illegal lol
@@meowiestwo Cloning of items and making it a business is blooming these days especially with the current technology, it is possible to make a clone of nearly everything and even an iPhone is not an exception in this case.
Apple product clones like the iphone, airpod... have been in the market for the longest time and many people have been taken advantage of for their desire to buy the famous Apple product. It is of course stealing but they're doing the public a huge favor. And they're very much reasonably cheap.
@@elias6406 okay buddy. Still illegal to sell counterfeit goods in the US. She messed up and got caught. And nobody “needs” Gucci. She wasnt doing them a favor, she was stealing protected IP. It sucks to suck.
How can it be worth anything if it's counterfeit?
Haha I see what you did there
yeah
Facts! It must be worth around 20,000 not 40 million.
They’re taking in consideration the amount they’d make for all the stuff at the price they’re selling it for
Because she stole the money from people through fraud
Three years? heck I'm going to start a scam!
Talk about labeling people the wrong way
Wow, gotta admire her creativity.
0:40 well we know who ratted her out lol
And this is why I'm trying to learn to make my own clothing
She could’ve done Gucci inspired items and would have done well
Not really any person could think of those ideas
Gucci inspired? hell no ppl want the real thing lol
There's a lot of people who would've done a knock off version.
I’m so glad the products will go to a good cause.
It is good that it is donated away instead of destroying. But I still that they might destroy the ones already printed with the labels.
Oh they absolutely destroyed everything with a logo on it. Those companies would never let poor people dilute their brand. They will burn good clothing in front of them with zero remorse
it's kinda hard to feel bad for anyone who is willing pay $5300 for a silkscreened sweatshirt ...
$5000 for a sweatshirt with 2 C's on it. Chanel is trippin. I can get that same sweater at Ross for $25. 🙄
Just without the logo🤣 or you just looking at a DC sweater that looks the same bc the DC logo and the Chanel logo kinda look the same
@@Xrvh-l5p 😂 noo Ross sells name brand clothes for real cheap. The only thing is there is most likely a defect on it. The one in my city has Michael Kors, Chanel, ect. But no Gucci 🤣
It's a good thing I don't buy branded things because I can't afford them.
Wow! I can’t imagine paying $300. For a headband! Dear God!
Good for her, she's a business woman!
I’m assuming a customer got angry and reported her 😅.
3 whole years and she made how many millions....? Not bad. She made out very well.
"I'm not even mad, I'm impressed"
Wouldn’t the look of the “Boutique” alone, tell you that stuff isn’t legit. Lol
I’m honestly proud of her
Maybe they should donate all the clothes that aren't branded and destroy the ones that have the product name so nobody else can get scammed again.
I guess it depends on where they donate but if it's a non-profit thrift store there is a chance someone will buy it and sell it as an authentic.
In the corporate designer companies. It's in their by laws to destroy product that doesn't sell.
Nah, who cares. There's a massive surplus of fake designer stuff in circulation anyway, if it can keep someone clothed rather than going to a landfill that would be so much better. If people wanna buy sketchy stuff they can't verify that's on them and the scammer.
Well ain’t that how Gucci, Channel etc operates? They put there logo on a 2$ shirt and sell it for 500?
This is why you get authenticity documents when purchasing these items...
Or just buy them from official stores and not go to a store that sells every brand name..
LOL WHY? WHATS THE DIFFERENCE! ITS ALL OF THE SAME QUALITY.. WHY GET DOCUMENTS? WHO CARES?
@@Xrvh-l5p WHY PAY THAT MUCH EITHER WAY?
Yeah, as if the original were made out of the materials that you can only find on meteoroid or on the moon and they’re all have been made by leprechauns 😂
A 3 year sentence is not long enough for all the scams that this person has done.
"...A typical baseball hat for $3, they put the logo on and sell it for hundreds..."
That sounds like real designer items to me.
She's a goddang genius, could you really feel bad for the fools who buy over expensive things??
Only 3 years max possible sentence for 40 million usd fraud? She deserves 30 years in jail.
So glad the rest will be donated!!!
I mean…these items look obviously fake
How did they know she had counterfeit goods
🤣 👉Her customers were paying a FRACTION of the prices that man stated. No one is paying full price from an unofficial store. That little guy is nuts! 🙈 Cheers everyone! 😀🥂
Source? Or you just assumed??
@@meowiestwo reality.
@@bellad.1274 ah, so you assumed. Thanks girly! 🥰
SERIOUS QUESTION. What's the difference between what she did and what people sell as "knockoffs"? Is it because she wasn't telling the buyers that it's a knockoff??
What a Crook How ever what type of people pay those outrageous prices for any of this merchandise They need to stop their Greed for Luxury &help people in Poverty !!
Fake Gucci, no way!
Though this woman was running a scam, it could also be argued that she revealed a bigger scam, it's just that her's is "illegal", and the other is "legal".
It's never ok to lie to people. Some people want something nice and save for it. If she told them that's one thing but lying is horrible. Also how on earth did people not know that was fake?
Right 😂
Sounds like the wrong person was arrested the owner off that brand name should be jailed for fraud charging those prices 😢
"Many of these clothes will now be donated to charities."
Homeless recieving Charity: ayo im rich now! look at this gucci shirt! and gucci pants!
Absolutely genius
Now that she's a grifter she can officially run for Senate in any red state and get the votes!
Red state? Blue as well.
I really mixed about this one. I mean counterfeit items in China go for way less
This was an online business that sold fake designer products that customers knew were fake, she sold them for super cheap in comparison to the real stuff.
Why y’all stopping her bag ?!!! All y’all stuff knock of too!! That’s what they do anyway
It’s one thing to sell counterfeit items. It’s so wrong to sell bootleg stuff at full price.
This is the definition of paying for brand, not usability. I wouldn't feel bad for anyone who messed up their gucci clothes somehow I would just say "maybe just wear a $20 shirt it does the same thing"
Why people pay obscene amounts of money to rep someone else’s brand/name is beyond me.
Capitalism and social pressure to live beyond our means. Everyone now wants vanity
It’s due to velbum effect when it comes to economics consumers buy luxurious goods because it make them “feel” good
3 years??? that is more like 3 months with good behavior.....lol.
She did what everyone else was thinking 😂😂
If people really know the brand and have shopped at an original store, I am surprised they were duped! They obviously really do not know designer items! Oh wait strip mall in N J???? Um ya, they deserved the dup! 😁
RIIIIIIIGHT. Even I know a fake when I see it. Its all about details and quality
My wife has been in that store 😂oh no the horror!
I really want to hear from someone who has shopped there though…like if I passed by Linny’s, it would remind me of the places in downtown LA…where it’s so obvious that they’re knockoffs. Idk…selling “designer” stuff at some random place is already a red flag to me lmao.
My whole question is tho is who the heck would believe that that is a real channel sweater-💀
People who have never had a real chanel sweater. I think she was selling them online and offering discounts. My question is, how did the cops know to go and search her store? They can't search without a warrant...what probable cause did the have to get the warrant? Some of her customers must have recognized she was selling fakes and reported her.
who falls for that 😭
So there's some rich people in Long Island walking around in fake designer clothes 🤣🤣🤣
While getting fined, she should get sued by Gucci
Boooohooooooo
Even though $400 for a shirt may seem ridiculous to you, we all have a hobby we spend too much and it would suck to scammed
What a legend
Donated to charity, now homeless people can look rich now 😊
Donated to charity literally makes it worth it
I doubt much of that was actually donated. Companies would send out a hitsquad before a poor African was caught wearing anything with their logo on it.
I can't even be mad at her. Its impossible for me to feel bad for anyone who'd drop 5k on a hoodie
if you’re a broke 🥷🏿 then just say that
@@benclique6276 if you’re stupid just say it 😂 the fact that she’s been pulling this scam for years and her customers couldn’t tell the difference says everything.