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How can it be reasonable and not illegal to sell high-quality imitations?

Whether selling high imitations is reasonable or illegal depends on the situation, as follows:

If consumers know about fakes and buy fakes, they should be criticized and educated; however, selling high imitations is illegal and the circumstances are serious Or if the sales volume is large, it is suspected of committing a crime, or reselling high imitation goods is also illegal.

The penalties for selling counterfeit and shoddy products are as follows:

1. Producers and sellers adulterate or adulterate their products, pass off fake products as genuine products, pass off substandard products as good products, or pass them off as substandard products. Anyone who passes off a product as a qualified product and has a sales amount of more than 50,000 yuan but less than 2.2 million yuan shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be fined not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount;

2. Anyone who sells an amount of more than 200,000 yuan but less than 500,000 yuan shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than two years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount;

3. If the sales amount is more than 500,000 yuan but less than 2 million yuan, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years and shall be fined not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount; if the sales amount is more than 2 million yuan, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years and a fine of not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount; Fifteen years' imprisonment or life imprisonment, and a fine of not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount, or confiscation of property.

To sum up, high imitation products themselves infringe on the products of other brand manufacturers, so the manufacturer is violating the law. It is also illegal for a seller to knowingly sell a counterfeit product.

Legal basis:

Article 214 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China

Selling goods that are knowingly counterfeit registered trademarks, If the sales amount is relatively large, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and concurrently or solely with a fine; if the sales amount is huge, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than seven years, and shall also be fined.