How can we stop counterfeit selling from online websites, especially sports jerseys? This has to stop one way or another, because millions of people uses the web to do there shopping. This type of shopping is huge during huge events such as the “Super Bowl”. According to National Public Radio they “estimated 800,000 counterfeit jerseys are sold online each year.” Lets multiple that to an average team jersey that cost 80 dollars, that’s roughly around 65 million dollars that is stolen each year. The hard thing to believe is that it is being done by some of the most popular online shopping websites such “EBay”. Nation Public Radio infers that “there are probably 500,000 fake jerseys floating on eBay right now”. I even go on EBay to buy all sorts of things.
This problem can be solved a couple different ways. First, all sports to team should make symbol that stand out and cannot be duplicated, unless it is made from their league. For example, the logo can be copied and you wouldn’t be able to tell the differences, from a counterfeit and an authentic jersey. Instead they should make the logo with a certain material that react a certain way in water. Another solution is that the government should have computer scientist, create software’s that detects counterfeit websites. Last but not least, to all online shoppers if you see a price that is hard believe online, such 20$ for a jersey it is fake and don’t buy it, or you will get your money worth. Counterfeit websites should be observe, and the person who us running the website should be caught and taken to jail.
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