That fake LP you bought on Temu....

[PunkKitty]

may have been confiscated....

U.S. customs officers seize 3,000 counterfeit Gibson guitars

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on Saturday announced the largest seizure ever of counterfeit Gibson electric guitars. Working with U.S. Homeland Security and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, agents recently seized more than 3,000 counterfeit guitars at the Port of Los...

triblive.com

 

[jp_nyc]

I want to know who these were going to. 3,000 guitars is more than any one person could unload. Even in a big city you couldn’t unload 100 fake Gibsons on Craigslist and Facebook in a year without people noticing. There has to be a network of criminals unloading these nationwide and that means organized crime is in the counterfeit guitar business. But the Feds got tipped off by somebody, so maybe they know what’s going on.

 

[GilmourD]

I want to know who these were going to. 3,000 guitars is more than any one person could unload. Even in a big city you couldn’t unload 100 fake Gibsons on Craigslist and Facebook in a year without people noticing. There has to be a network of criminals unloading these nationwide and that means organized crime is in the counterfeit guitar business. But the Feds got tipped off by somebody, so maybe they know what’s going on.

Possibly mentioned in another thread in a different subforum?

 

[PunkKitty]

I want to know who these were going to. 3,000 guitars is more than any one person could unload. Even in a big city you couldn’t unload 100 fake Gibsons on Craigslist and Facebook in a year without people noticing. There has to be a network of criminals unloading these nationwide and that means organized crime is in the counterfeit guitar business. But the Feds got tipped off by somebody, so maybe they know what’s going on.

You wouldn't believe how many fake Gibsons I find in pawn shops.