Real Canada Goose - The reality is about quality
canada goose jackets, the company that makes those massive red and black winter parkas with the round red badges on the arm, is under attack from a global network of counterfeiters."It's been a terrible year," said Kevin Spreekmeester, vice-president of Global Marketing for Canada Goose. "In the past, we dealt with individual auction sites like Craigslist, Kijiji, or eBay and only on the rarest of occasions would we have rogue websites, but as our brand has grown in popularity, counterfeit or rogue websites are popping up all over the place." sjdiewqy?
From parkas to jackets to hockey jerseys, counterfeiters of brand-name clothing have been widening their presence in the Canadian market and online.Canada Goose, for instance, makes some of the warmest jackets on the planet. They're used by Arctic expeditions and in research stations in Antarctica. Politicians visiting Canada's North wear them. Hollywood films such as The Day After Tomorrow and National Treasure have used them as props to lend an air of authenticity. That credibility has turned the company into an emerging fashion accessory prompting it to launch a line of urban-styled coats and jackets. But with the street fashion popularity, came the counterfeiters.
canada goose canada says so far it's not losing market share because it has more orders than it can fill, but it is worried that poor-quality knock-offs will damage the brand.Company employees recently bought four counterfeit coats and took them to a lab to be tested. They were shocked at what they found: instead of the high-quality goose down filler, they say the parkas were stuffed with mulched up chicken feathers, beaks and chicken feet.
Not only is the filling unable to provide any insulating power, the company says, but it was covered in bacteria and mildew.And it gets worse. Real Canada Goose jackets have hoods rimmed with coyote fur because it is uniquely able to break the wind and create a pocket of warmth around the face.The hoods on the fake jackets, however, were found to come from German shepherds, rabbits and even house cats in an attempt to get the "authentic" look Canada Goose is famous for, the company says.
The Company's Facebook page is littered with complaints from people who appear to have unknowingly bought counterfeit jackets and who end up complaining about poor quality, lack of warmth and feathers poking through the lining.A couple of weeks ago, there were 20 to 30 rogue websites purporting to sell authentic $800 Canada Goose parkas for only $200. That, combined with the negative Facebook messages, prompted Canada Goose to take action.It hired a brand protection company that works to shut down the websites by suspending their Internet service providers and have their PayPal accounts shut down. Some of those sites have been closed, but new ones pop up every day.
Canada Goose sells more than 200,000 jackets globally every year and all of them are made in Canada. The only way to get a real one is to buy them from a registered dealer listed on the Canada Goose website.Auction sites like Craigslist, Kijiji, parkastore.com and eBay are not licensed to sell
canada goose parka.The jackets use goose down, not feathers or synthetic fibres, so if feathers are poking out from the lining, it's a fake.The company also says their coats are hardly ever on sale for the simple reason that they sell out ever year — so if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.