- Buying a knock off doesn’t benefit the designer. Period. Would you like your designs knocked off?
- Price point or materials have nothing to do with if it should be ok to knock it off.
- Original prices have nothing to do with it. Value accrued is value for a reason.
- Knock offs have utility value, but nothing more.
- Knock offs are rarely the same quality. Something in the supply chain has to give be it labor costs or material costs. It’s naive to think herman miller is just making x times profit on the same thing with the same labor values and materials.
Buy what you want. I’m only saying that both long and short term that buying quality and original far outweighs the minimal short term benefits of buying cheap or knockoff.
Sure, we all can’t afford what we want, but I believe better to buy the best you can than a sub par version of that you cannot.
R