Criticism
The party plan is criticized for exploiting social conventions in ways that embarrass "guests" into buying things they did not want.
Purse parties that are not done though a dedicated program though the manufacturer differ, however, from these other parties in that the merchandise at these parties consists of counterfeit knock-offs of popular, name-brand purses. Merchandise at American purse parties is usually bought in bulk from smugglers in New York's Chinatown or in Los Angeles' garment district and sold to unsuspecting customers at a significantly higher price, although still lower than the retail price of the legitimate product. These inferior smuggled goods have been linked to organized crime and the funding of terrorism, so purse parties have become of interest to law enforcement. Selling such purses, with an imitation designer label, is a US federal crime called trafficking in counterfeit goods, even if the seller tells the buyer that the purse is a fake.
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