ever bought a cheap fake item?

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i still remember one incident where my mother became a victim of those sellers going door to door. it happened when i was still in high school, 3 ladies came to our house carrying big bags and boxes with a logo of a famous shampoo brand, those ladies offered the shampoo to my mother at almost 50% off, naturally my mother would be awed thinking she can get big savings if she buy those shampoo. so she bought 2 boxes of shampoo in a 100ml bottle each. when i saw the boxes with the shampoo logo and ask what was that she told me excitedly that she bought them in a very cheap price at almost half the original price. being a stubborn little lady i told her that those maybe fake and we might get allergy but she did not listen to me and instead put them in our cabinet to be use after our old shampoo ran out. because of that suspicious thinking and the fear of getting a hair loss i avoid using the cheap product and opted to use our old shampoo. unfortunately one day i ran out of my shampoo and has no choice but to use that cheap one. to my dismay my hair got rough and dry and i got an itchy scalp. i told my mother about it and that's when she admit the same experience to me. she also told me that the shampoo even smell awful and thus she wanted to kill those ladies that sold her the products. my mother never bought cheap products in a door to door offer since then. :)