{"id":3593,"date":"2018-05-04T17:38:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekshop.rs\/boban-kopija-vs-original\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:27:29","slug":"boban-backpack-original-vs-counterfeit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/en\/boban-kopija-vs-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Boban backpack – Counterfeit vs Original – What are the differences?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A detailed analysis of the copy and the original Boban backpack.<\/h2>\n

If you can't be bothered to read, watch this video that sums up all the differences in 4 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Klikni ovde da pogleda\u0161 video – razlike izme\u0111u kopije i originala (na fejsu se nalazi video)<\/a><\/p>\n

The history of Boban in Serbia<\/h2>\n

Wait, what is a Boban backpack anyway?<\/h3>\n

It all started in April 2016, when on KickStarter<\/a> appeared Bobby Backpack<\/strong>. A backpack with anti-theft features and useful everyday details, named after the British police officers known as 'bobbies'. The idea behind the name is simple: it looks after the belongings inside.<\/p>\n

On that blessed Kickstarter, we immediately ordered 50 from the Dutch manufacturer (XD-Design), and that is how GeekShop was born!<\/p>\n

Za\u0161to “Boban”<\/h4>\n

How did Bobby become Boban? A friend pointed out that Bobi is a familiar dog's name in Serbia and suggested a name better suited to our local audience. We chose Boban, and it stuck.<\/p>\n

Everyone started joking around How's it going, Boban?<\/strong>, shares started trickling in and the IT crowd got interested.<\/p>\n

Copies soon appeared on Facebook<\/h3>\n

In 2017, we started receiving messages:<\/p>\n

Why do you sell the backpack for 100 euros when the Senfi shop page sells it for half as much, for 5000 din?<\/p>\n

(the price later changed to 2500, then 1990, and now you can even find it for 1500 dinars)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We soon realized these were cheap Aliexpress copies costing 6\u20ac wholesale, and kicked ourselves for not getting into business with those instead.<\/p>\n

But it is a good thing we didn't.<\/p>\n

Those who went into the copy business simply took all our photos, videos and descriptions and started flogging them as originals at a special price.<\/p>\n

Man, they are selling fakes as originals<\/h3>\n

How Facebook pages selling Chinese counterfeits operate:<\/p>\n

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  • No phone number; customers order exclusively through inbox messages<\/li>\n
  • They mostly ship with Bex couriers and hide their address so they cannot be traced.<\/li>\n
  • They don't allow page ratings, so no one can leave them a negative review<\/li>\n
  • If you complain or leave a negative comment, they just delete it, block you and problem solved<\/li>\n
  • Sipaju velike koli\u010dine novca u ogla\u0161avanje i samo nastavljaju da varaju, k’o da im je Vu\u010di\u0107 bio nastavnik u ve\u010dernjoj \u0161koli.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    We had to draw our followers' attention to this<\/h3>\n