All about Online “Chrome Hearts” Retailers: Real or Fake?
Punksilver: Online Retailers of Chrome Hearts jewelry: Real or Fake? Our lowdown on unscrupulous online sellers.
Punksilver.com occasionally receives emails from our treasured customers asking us to determine if some Chrome Hearts jewelry on sale at a particular website is authentic Chrome Hearts jewelry, or whether they are replicas or fake Chrome Hearts. Many of these items claim to be authentic.
Our short and simple answer is that 100% of such items sold on the internet, and in fact also at physical bazaars and non-Chrome Hearts retail stores are FAKES. The only question one should ask is whether they are the best good quality Chrome Hearts replicas/fakes/inspired alternatives manufactured purely from 925 sterling silver, or those Chrome Hearts replicas/fakes that are made from alloys but merely plated with silver, or are they some cheap poor quality Chrome Hearts replicas made from some metal!
It is all too easy to be fooled by online sellers offering Chrome Hearts jewelry on the internet claiming to be authentic. There are way too many sellers around the globe selling fake Chrome Hearts necklaces, fake Chrome Hearts bracelets, fake Chrome Hearts earrings, fake Chrome Hearts rings, fake Chrome Hearts cufflinks, fake Chrome Hearts moneyclips, fake Chrome Hearts pendants, fake Chrome Hearts skull accessories (a popular replica item), and a wide variety of other fake Chrome Hearts accessories on blogs, classified advertisements, auction sites and pretty much anywhere you might be on the internet! Most have a single trait in common: they are selling Chrome Hearts replicas, and passing them off as the real McCoy.
Simple common sense should expose the entire set of lies: Chrome Hearts exclusively distributes its jewelry through its own physical boutiques. Chrome Hearts has no affiliates, co-retailers, distributors or sales partners. Therefore, the only way any retailer can sell you real Chrome Hearts is by buying direct from the Chrome Hearts boutique, and then re-selling the product at a higher price. That is completely unrealistic, given that Chrome Hearts is a luxury brand. An online retailer would have to charge you thousands for a single item in purchasing costs alone just to break even; a price no online customer would be willing to pay.
Why then do such sellers misrepresent that they are selling authentic or original articles when they really do know that what they have are Chrome Hearts replicas? There are 2 reasons why sellers claim that the jewelries that they sell are real Chrome Hearts items and not fake Chrome Hearts items. Firstly, many independent websites such as classified ads or auction sites such as Ebay have rules prohibiting sellers from selling Fake or Replica branded products on their website. Therefore, most sellers circumvent this rule in the worst possible way, and claim that the Chrome Hearts jewelry they sell is genuine.
Secondly, many sellers of Chrome Hearts replicas are able to offer best quality replicas made from solid 925 sterling silver. Instead of honestly selling such replicas at cost + fair profit, they choose to sell them passing off as a real Chrome Hearts jewelry at exorbitant prices close to the originals (of course there are also many sellers who sell poor quality Chrome Hearts jewelry as the real thing too). Most often, unsuspecting buyers may purchase them and think that the item they received is a real Chrome Hearts product. These sellers often pocket a huge profit by selling a replica or fake Chrome Hearts jewelry as a real jewelry. This is because when they sell Chrome Hearts replicas at prices close to the original’s price (or even half the original’s price), the poor customer ends up paying for a fake brand label on top of the materials and labour costs non-designer jewelers should rightly charge.
Unless you buy a piece of Chrome Hearts jewelry (be it a Chrome Hearts Necklace, Chrome Hearts bracelet, Chrome Hearts earrings, Chrome Hearts ring, Chrome Hearts cufflinks, Chrome Hearts key ring or any Chrome Hearts accessory) from the boutique itself, do not assume that it is an authentic piece: it is almost certainly NOT.
The Chrome Hearts jewelry we sell here at punksilver.com is made from solid 925 sterling silver and therefore looks, feels and weighs very much like the original item which inspired our products. They are similar to the best Grade AAAAA Chrome Hearts replicas or fakes in the market and can hardly be differentiated from the real item. However, rather than violate copyrights and directly duplicate Chrome Hearts offerings, we closely model our jewelry after Chrome hearts designs to carve out a Chrome Hearts inspired jewelry piece similar in look and feel to the original.
In fact, our Chrome Hearts inspired jewelry is all too easy to pass off as a real Chrome Hearts original piece. The main difference between us and other dealers out there is that we tell you the truth. We don’t sell original Chrome Hearts pieces. We sell Chrome Hearts inspired jewelry: what we earlier referred to as Grade AAAAA Chrome Hearts replicas, top grade Chrome Hearts replicas, Grade AAAAA Chrome Hearts fakes, top fake Chrome Hearts etc. And having honestly declared our stand, we price our jewelry items way below what the originals cost; we won’t be unfairly charging you, our valued customer, for a brand label which we don’t rightly have.
Punksilver.com honestly tells you outright that you are buying a Chrome Hearts inspired piece, sometimes referred to by others as a Replica/Fake Chrome Hearts jewelry piece – Except that they are the BEST GRADE AAAAA Chrome Hearts you can ever find in the market. We guarantee that all our Chrome Hearts “so-called replicas” are manufactured ONLY from 100% genuine solid 925 Sterling Silver.
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