HOW TO DETERMINE AN ORIGINAL ITEMS

Many items sold in the market today are not original when manufactured. Our trading market was full of fake items. If you don't know how to detect the real items, you'll become the next victim:

In buying flower vase for your living room, look at the texture around it. They have a beautiful design but look carefully if the design was not pasted to the flower base. The design of the original item was mixed to the vase itself.

In buying pottery, look for any fix in job, a crack that hidden in a sealant. Dip it in the water to see if there's any visible lines appearing. Pottery was made of clay and hardened by smoking method. If it smells smoke then its real.

In selecting your furniture, check the kind of wood they used. There are furniture that look like molave, one of the hardwood trees, but if you scrutinize it carefully you will see that it was made of soft wood but the price was of molave. One way of determining the hardness of the wood is by pressing it in your fingernails. Feel it if it is hard or not. Another section of the furniture that you have to look is the joint. Most of the furniture sold in the market had some patching to the surface to economize the usage of wood. They sealed it with wood cement to erase the visible line by retouching. With the use of sanding, the lines will disappear and look fresh and new. But visible later in how many months of use because the shellac and wood cement peeled off then by this time you will see the difference.

There were also a trick to sell a look-like original cellphone battery. The lettering indicated in the battery was different from the original. They used the logo of a quality brand so that consumer can be tricked believing it is original. You found it later when the battery was short-lived. It damaged easily because it was substandard. There were incidents that it exploded and leaking. The same thing happened in the cellphone housing made of ordinary plastic. The surface was rough and the letter marking was fading; the stroke of the label was different but the brand were the same.

These were only portion of the many tricks used in the trade. Using labels of high-quality brand but the durability, neatness, and design can be detected easily as fake.

As a consumer, keep watch. Buy only those products that you think branded as original and not imitation. The difference is visible to the eye if you scrutinize it carefully. Don't allow to be trick to a product that did not pass in the quality standard. You are only wasting your hard-earned money if you cannot even used it for a longer period. It hurts.