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Counterfeit Irish Times

  • 13-11-2010 7:52pm
    #1
    breadmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,608 ✭✭✭


    I've just purchased the international edition of today's Irish Times from a small shop in London and it's a photocopy.

    The outer page is in colour, presumably to provide some degree of concealment, but the rest is in black and white. I'm thinking that it must be done in bulk and then distributed to the shops. How widespread is this?


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  • #2
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    Wow I've never seen that before and I've bought the IT in some big towns and tiny villages in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk as well as in London! It should be very east to get the Times in London, not some dodgy copy.

    If I were you I'd email the IT offices and let them know where you bought it.


  • #3
    breadmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,608 ✭✭✭breadmonkey


    Yeah was thinking that myself. I really despise the shop in question so wouldn't mind seeing them get a boot in the arse. I'll email them and report back with any response.


  • #4
    breadmonkey
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    I presume the international edition should be all in colour? The main photograph (in colour) on the front page looks really weird as well so I'm 99% it's a bogus copy. Just want to be sure before I make a tit of myself emailing them!


  • #5
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Its the same with the Indo.
    I bought a copy in London last week (the shop didn't have the IT).
    That was B&W inside the front page too.
    On the continent the IT is always B&W but I seldom buy it when I'm there now because It costs too much.


  • #6
    Plowman
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  • #7
    IRE60
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    The IT have an "international edition" - in the UK its printed by the Financial Times (Pearson). That would suggest that the quality should be up to scratch and not a sh1tty photocopy.

    Fire off an email with the retailers address to the Circulation Dep in the IT and they will figure it out fairly quick.


  • #8
    uvox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 975 ✭✭✭uvox


    Unlikely to be counterfeit. The cost of photocopying and moving the copies would outweigh the cost of the original. The IT does an international edition. Been a while since I bought it, but I think the weekend edition all gets folded into the main section on a Saturday.

    Never mind the paper quality, it's the content quality...:)


  • #9
    AngryLips
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    The international edition is mostly printed in black and white. Some of the content also differs insofar as there is less than what you can expect to find in the Irish edition.


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