The start of the festive season marks the beginning of huge discounts, alluring deals, cashback offers and a lot of other perky things. These enticing offers instantly catch your attention and motivate you to avail them at the earliest. Seeing a huge slash in prices you are tempted to buy your favourite items. However, many times these offers are too good to be true and you may receive a counterfeit or spurious product in the garb of a festive offer.
So before making the purchase you must consider certain points, let’s discuss the same.
Look closely at the labels and packaging
Look at the labels, packaging, printing and the text closely. If you notice any flaw in the spellings, grammar, print quality or any other discrepancies then it could be a sign of counterfeit. Also, be cautious of products that include a ‘Made in China’ unless and until the product is merchandise manufactured in China, perform a web search for it.
Buy from an authorised dealer
Always go for an authorised dealer while purchasing or replacing products. This is highly important in a scenario where you are purchasing or replacing spare parts for automobiles, aeroplanes and other items.
Are there no taxes?
Always be cautious of deals which allow you to purchase without value-added tax, sales tax etc. This is usually in case of counterfeits which evade huge amount of taxes every year.
Purchase from a secure e-commerce website
Try to avoid purchasing from websites that do not have https in their domain. The ‘s’ in https stands for secure which is generally used by authorised and credible websites. Legitimate retailers will always ensure that their customers buy through a secure setting and are not duped with counterfeits.
Is the deal too good to be true?
One of the biggest giveaways for consumers is that ‘a deal is too good to be true’. Seasonal discounts or factory prices are fine but if the prices are too low compared to the regular price of the product then there are high chances that the product is a counterfeit. Take a cue from this and thoroughly check the labels and tags of the product.
Look for holographic and digital authentication
Last but not least is to visually identify security holograms or digitally authenticate QR codes and bar codes printed on the product. Due to the rise of counterfeiting companies are using security holograms and QR codes on their products. Security holograms are 3D holographic devices with optical properties and show different images or features corresponding to the angle of viewing. Try to view the holograms from different angles and you will be able to notice the different colours and images in it. There are also other covert features which can only be viewed with special instruments. For QR code authentication you will require a QR code scanning mobile application which will determine the genuineness of the product.
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