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Caveat emptor: China’s ‘personal shopping services’ may get you a quality fake, not a quality brand

June 24, 2015 by adminficci News 0 comments

Personal shopping services offering to help buy designer goods at lower prices have mushroomed on popular messaging app WeChat in China, but users would do well to heed the time-honoured Latin phrase caveat emptor: let the buyer beware.

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