The main differences between luxury brand name handbags and the imitations are craftsmanship and quality control. There must be a reason why imitation purses can be sold for so little. The truth is, luxury purses are usually either completely hand crafted or have main components that are, while the imitations are almost guaranteed to have been mass produced on an assembly line by loud and dangerous hydraulic machines in a factory where 99.5% of the employees are horrendously underpaid and poorly treated.
With the global economy expanding rapidly, and with manufacturers looking to make the highest profit margin, many products that are produced by companies are actually made in independent factories around the world. These factories are contracted by corporations to manufacture their products, and because the factories are also looking to make the highest amount of profit while still discounting their services to keep up with competition, workers are generally very unskilled, extremely underpaid, facing long work days, and quality control is cut out of the equation in order to maximize profits.
