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Speaker 1: Get fortune Yo to the Gray and Jordan album. I

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wrote this for the world and my enemies, of course

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from okay, I give him a Martians like that stra

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mart inside jump on the beat and not like some

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portious post like horses for rock beets like engines up

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rob that ship up fencing. I get the spinning spinning

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like for spind Time. Make that bitch god sy Sis two,

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the one finished sad bitches like my name for trasy No,

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I do not save her her loves no album, Oh

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mar birth beat at your throwing ten tan dumps like

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y m c MB talk for the food chain see

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your fortunes into you.

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Speaker 2: That's my w y'all. And Man's is out there fighting

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for their lives. The luxury brand is freaking out and

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hidden back with lawsuits against the very Chinese factories that

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just pulled the curtain back on one of their biggest

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kept secrets. And let's be real, the fashion world is shook.

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Here's the kicker. These aren't random counterfeit operation. These are

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the actual manufacturers who've been crafting the same Berkins and

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Kelly's that air Mez turns around and sells for twenty

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thousand dollars in up and now they're spilling all the

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behind the scenes tea about how those fancy made in

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France labels might not be telling the full story. From

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sneaky production shortcuts to leak documents and tiktoks go on viral,

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this whole situation is exposing some major cracks in the

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luxury game. Air Mez is in major damage control mode,

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but it might be too late. The truth is out

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and it's not looking pretty. So let's unpack this mess.

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All right, Let's rewind to the big lie that kick

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this whole mess off. For years, air Mez has been

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selling this dream of luxury bags delicately handcrafted by elite

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French artisans and charming little Parisian at Elie's. Sounds fancy, right,

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but here's the real tea. New reports in some damning

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receipts are saying that up to eighty percent of those

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iconic bags aren't being made in France at all. Nope,

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they're being produced in China. Not just piece together everything,

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we're talking cutting the leather, stitching threadings start to finish.

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Then once the bags make it to France, er Mez

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allegedly adds a little hardware or stamps on them and

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slaps on a maide in France because technically it was

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made in France, just not ninety percent of it. So

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when those Chinese factories decided to spill the beans and

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back it up with receipts, am Mez absolutely flipped. Now

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let's talk about Tanner leather sign. You know the guy

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luxury brands probably wish would just go away. He's not

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some random TikToker trying to stir the pot. He's a

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legit leather expert with a solid following, and his whole

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thing is buying designer bags and literally cutting them open

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on camera to show what's really going on inside. Tanner's

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been exposing the truth about these so called high end

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brands for a minute now. He was the first to

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call out Chanelle for ditching real gold hardware and using

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them classic coated leather. He's taking shots, said Louis Vatan,

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Botega Venetta and yup Airmez too. According to him, the

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leather in these bags isn't much better than what you'd

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find and a one hundred dollars due and the kicker

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he broke down that making a burken actually costs around

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six hundred dollars, including legit leather and solid hardware.

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Speaker 3: I have spent over one hundred thousand dollars of my

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own money dissecting luxury bags, cutting them open, analyzing every stitch,

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every layer. Why because I had to know what made

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those bags.

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Speaker 2: Now imagine air Mez watching all this blow up, with

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viral videos everywhere, people talking, and the truth spreading faster

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than they can control it. The wild part is that

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those Chinese factories weren't just making knockoffs. They were allegedly

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producing the real bags for Airmez and then turn around

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and expose the whole operation. Rumor has it, air Mez

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is now allegedly threatening to sue some of these Chinese factories,

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talking about intellectual property and defamation. At this point, it

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feels like less protecting their brand and more like trying

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to clean up a mess they didn't expect to go public.

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Let's break it down for a second. Air Mez pulled

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fifteen point two billion in revenue in twenty twenty four.

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That's a lot of bad. Now if it supposedly takes

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two full days to handcraft just one burkin, where exactly

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is this magical army of French artisans quietly churning them

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all out because the math isn't math. Something's not adding

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up at all, and Airmez isn't the only one playing

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this game. Brands like Prada, Chanelle and Louis Vatan have

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been doing the same thing for years. They'll make the

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bulk of a product, like ninety eight percent of it

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in China, then attach a zipper or or sew on

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a button in Italy just so they can legally slap

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a made in Italy tag on. It's all marketing, smoke

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and mirrors, and people buy into it because there's this

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prestige that comes with European labels, But behind the scenes

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it's just a very expensive con Who is.

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Speaker 4: The Chinese supply by product based off of sitol haaback

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in congensity pros. It's a factory specializing headbags for fifty

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four years and you produce this eighty percent of the

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world luxury backs.

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Speaker 2: Now that people are starting to catch on, resale prices

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are starting to drop. Folks are realizing they pay twenty

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five K for a bag that came from the same

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factory as a four hundred dollars due and Tanner pans

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are showing us exactly what's inside these bags, ones that

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claim to be full calf skin but are actually made

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with cheap PU coded leather. It's got collectors second guessing

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and buyers straight up mad because if Airmez isn't really

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about quality or craftsmanship, then what exactly are we paying for?

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Just the brand name, the illusion. Here's the thing. For years,

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Western luxury brands have sod us this idea that made

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in China means low quality, but that's just outdated. Chinese

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factories today are making world class leather goods. They've got

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the materials, the skills, and the machines to do it.

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In fact, a lot of luxury brands are having their

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products made in the same factories as mid range brands

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and knockoffs. The only real difference is the label they

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slap on at the end.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 2: Western media has really drilled it into people's heads that

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made in China equals bad and made in Europe equals

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high class. But when you take a closer look, it's

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all just clever marketing. These brands aren't about craftsmanship, their

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private equity owned machines cranking out over priced goods for

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people who don't know any better. And now that consumers

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are starting to catch on. The whole industry is freaking out,

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and we have Tanner leather Steen to think. See, he's

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not out here working for any brand or trying to

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sell you anything. He's just showing his process, breaking down

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materials and giving it to a strait. He even cut

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open his eighteen hundred dollars wallet collection to show us

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exactly what we're really paying for and what did he

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find disappointment over and over again.

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Speaker 3: Most of those bags I cut open just expensive, nothing special.

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But if you truly exceptional.

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Speaker 2: Let's keep it real. These designer brands wouldn't be where

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they are without celebrities flexing their bags like status symbols.

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You think they're just buying Burkins and Chanelle for fun.

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Note most of the time those flags are either gifted

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or they're getting paid to wear them. It's all part

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of a strategy. The brand sends Kim Kardashian a sixty

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thousand dollars bag and she posts it on Instagram. Suddenly

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every influencer and fashion obsessed person out there is scrambling

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to get one. You think you're buying luxury, but what

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you're actually buying is that celebrity seal of approval. And

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it's not just celebs anymore. Now, influencers are in the

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game too. TikTok and Instagram are flooded with unboxing videos

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showing off luxury halls. But what they don't tell you

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is that most of those bags are pr drops or

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brand partnerships. These creators are making serious money promoting bags

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they didn't even pay for, pushing the idea that you

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need a designer bag to be anybody.

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Speaker 1: This my first bag I got this year. Are usually

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get one bag a year, and this is the one

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for this year, and I'm really excited about it.

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Speaker 2: Let's dive into this Burken game for a minute. At

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some point, only one became the ultimate status symbol. But

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here's the thing. Ever, Mez doesn't just let anyone walk

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in and buy one. It's not that simple. You have

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to earn the right by spending tons of money on scarves, belts,

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and whatever else they sell before they'll even consider offering

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you a Burkin. That's not luxury. It's more like a

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VIP club with a heavy price tag, and for some reason,

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people are still lining up to get in. Let's not

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forget about the resale aspect. A few years back, people

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were flipping Burkens like they were hot properties. But now,

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after Tanner's revelations and those factory leaks, prices are dropping quickly.

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If the so called exclusive civity is just a marketing trick,

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the quality is up for debate, and the bags are

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coming from the same factories as knockoffs, why would anyone

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pay top dollar anymore? Now people are starting to panic,

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restellers are getting nervous, and investors are waking up to

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the fact that luxury bags might not be the cash

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cow they once stop. And honestly, this couldn't have come

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at a worse time for them. Ever, since the US

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hit China with those hefty tariffs on imports, global brands

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have been forced to come clean and guess what. Airmez

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is one of the brands that could feel the most impact,

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Because when the majority of your French craftsmanship actually comes

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from sin zen factories, you've got a serious problem on

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your hands. Child. This is a hot mess, and y'all

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best believe that fans are eating air Mess up. They've

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been leaving comments like ladies finding out they can get

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the exact same bag as Aramez burking from China for

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fifteen hundred dollars and not the thirty eight thousand dollars

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charge in America, the trade war between China and the US.

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I'm sorry, but all these expose as have me Like

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all the luxury brands you people obsessed over, even Burken

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bags are made in China. Capitalism is wild. My question is,

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now that you know they're made in China, does it

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on luxury them? And the Chinese spilling tea on luxury

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brands as wild? Imagine buying an Ermez burkin for thirty

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eight thousand dollars when it actually costs fourteen hundred to make.

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The Chanel bag that costs five thousand dollars is made

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in China for fifty so satisfying to see the Chinese

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exposing these luxury brands.

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Speaker 3: This is wild.

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Speaker 2: But y'all let me know what you think in the comments.

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Would you still spend thirty thousand dollars on a burkin?

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Your happy thoughts in the comments?

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Speaker 1: Get forty yold to the Great for Jordan album. I

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wrote this for the Wok and my enemies of course

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slept me, okay, I get my martianus like that'stra ma

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inside jump on enough beat not go portious hold on

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like horses for Rod Beetz, like engines up rob that

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shit opensive. I did the spending, spending like aspendis make

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that bitch good seas just two in the one. Benis

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sad bitch like my name was jazy No, I do

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not save her her loves no album oh my birth

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behavior though attention tantrums like y m c MB top

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for the foot chain, see your fortunes int, that's my

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name