Counterfeit La Passione jersey from Geartrade

[mhespenheide]

I was stoked to buy a La Passione jersey from Geartrade recently, but unfortunately when it arrived, I'm pretty confident it's a knockoff. The interior label of a true La Passione jersey should look like the one in item

https://www.geartrade.com/item/95745...ve-jersey-mens
or
https://www.geartrade.com/item/95745...ve-jersey-mens
or
https://www.geartrade.com/item/95745...ve-jersey-mens

...but the jersey that arrived has an interior label that looks like the one in

https://www.geartrade.com/item/93692...ng-jersey-mens

(which I'm confident is also a counterfeit.) Yes, you'll have to zoom in or have sharp eyes to see the difference in labels in the small online images. You can also see the difference in the elastic at the hem of the sleeves.

I'm familiar with the style of the interior label of the jersey that I have. I've bought "reproduction" jerseys of old professional cycling teams from eBay and AliExpress and they almost always have this style of interior label.

I've sent an email to Geartrade and I'm confident that they'll make it right. I've ordered a bunch of stuff from them over the years (cycling and backpacking/camping) and this is the first time I've run into it with them. I don't blame them, either; they're re-selling returned items and I'm betting that one of their customers pulled a fast one on them and "returned" a counterfeit jersey and kept the real jersey. I'm sure the people handling the returns aren't paying that close attention to the fine details. Not with the volumes they're probably having to process and not being an expert in all of the items that Backcountry sells. I just wanted to put it out there that even a reputable source can run into problems with knock-off items.