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	title of this thread your message I find these "avoid (enter knockoff manufacturer name here) all costs" and other similar threads to be pointless for this website. A true design addict doesn't financially support these knock off companies anyway. So if you bought vintage or "real" to begin with, there wouldn't be a problem. If you look on the radar you will find no products of the sort. If you can't afford a real barcelona chair (I can't either) then just live with that reality and get something else. We are DESIGN addicts, not STYLE addicts. Perhaps the people who have been burned by purchasing from shady Chinese companies should find a site devoted to style only to bellyache to. Design is about the designer, and his/her process. Anything other than the original has lost this element of soul and history and is style only. Design is forever. Style changes, dies, resurrects and dies again. Good design never leaves and is never in bad taste. Don't make this into a cost/the Eames' original intent discussion. Charles and Ray are gone, so the argument is pointless. Anything with a significant history is liable to become collectible, and therefore, expensive. This isn't unique to MCM furniture. It's just the way it is, regardless of the intent. There I said it. So if you got burned by Captain Shady's Modern Furniture Depot, there is probably a more relevant place to complain about it than here. Perhaps a law office... associated web images (optional) associated web link (optional) your email your password create a forums account \| you forgot your password?