A few months ago I went with a friend to a gun shop I had never been to, he was looking for a AR15 so he "made" me go with him as a technical adviser.
They did have a good deals on Colt M4's with MagPul furniture for $990 so I told my friend to buy.
The owner of the shop and I were talking while my friend did the paper work. I noticed a Traser watch, (only watch in the place) in the display case so I asked the price which was full retail. So then he asked if I was into watches and I said yes.
Then he pulls up his sleeve and shows me this Breitling watch he is wearing. One quick look and I knew it was a fake, a really bad fake! I asked if he knew it was a fake. The look on his face made the trip worth it for me.
He then told me about buying it because he couldn't afford the real deal. Then the best part, he said he accidentally ordered two of the damn things and told me he could sell me the other one for the $125 he paid.
That's when things went south.
I asked him what he would think of someone selling fake optics like the real ones in his shop. How about when that fake fails and the person that owns it blames the real company because he thinks it's real. Then they won't buy a real one from him because they had a fake that failed. He just said he never thought of that, went in the back and we didn't see him again.
I don't care what other people wear, I only busted his nuts because of the way he flaunted that fake at me as if he was going to impress me with it. I guess he thought it was a good fake and it would fool me. He was wrong.
Fakes and homages are two different things IMO so don't get you homage butt in a hussy of this post.