Your comments and questioning the provenance is similar to my experience of multiple products in the small countries of central Africa. Is it a cheaper product dressed up to try to look like the real deal? Glad your experienced taste-test revealed it is likely not a fake.
I have had more concern for potential harm from generic drugs that I prescribe that are far cheaper than their cousins in Europe and especially, the US. I am becoming more convinced that it's the horrendous level of bureaucratic red tape that adds enormously to the cost of drugs. Easily 1000% in many cases. Yes, a one with three zeros.... or more.
The effectiveness of drugs is the main route of verification that I have immediately available. There's a lot of money to be made on either side: fake drugs being sold at roughly $1 per 100 tablets or less would seem to beg the question of authenticity. And yet the stuff of drug ingredients are, I think, massively cheap to produce on large scale, particularly when labor costs are 1000% less than in Ulaya (Sw-DRC word for the West), So let's all benefit from the reality and boost the economy by purchasing effective products at lower cost!
Right, it becomes apparent when traveling that the world is made up of various market bubbles that are mutually isolated. Another example: You can't get some aftermarket parts for Honda motorcycles in Cambodia. It can't be because logistics are totally crap: they import stuff from all over the world. Then you notice them gluing old air hoses back together with bathroom caulking and reselling them at triple their factory-fresh price in Japan. It all evens out though, because you can get antimicrobials in Siem Reap for pocket change that would cost a week's wages in the States. If only we could combine all of the best of these bubbles . . .
Your comments and questioning the provenance is similar to my experience of multiple products in the small countries of central Africa. Is it a cheaper product dressed up to try to look like the real deal? Glad your experienced taste-test revealed it is likely not a fake.
I have had more concern for potential harm from generic drugs that I prescribe that are far cheaper than their cousins in Europe and especially, the US. I am becoming more convinced that it's the horrendous level of bureaucratic red tape that adds enormously to the cost of drugs. Easily 1000% in many cases. Yes, a one with three zeros.... or more.
The effectiveness of drugs is the main route of verification that I have immediately available. There's a lot of money to be made on either side: fake drugs being sold at roughly $1 per 100 tablets or less would seem to beg the question of authenticity. And yet the stuff of drug ingredients are, I think, massively cheap to produce on large scale, particularly when labor costs are 1000% less than in Ulaya (Sw-DRC word for the West), So let's all benefit from the reality and boost the economy by purchasing effective products at lower cost!
However, NOT advocating that for liquor ;)
Right, it becomes apparent when traveling that the world is made up of various market bubbles that are mutually isolated. Another example: You can't get some aftermarket parts for Honda motorcycles in Cambodia. It can't be because logistics are totally crap: they import stuff from all over the world. Then you notice them gluing old air hoses back together with bathroom caulking and reselling them at triple their factory-fresh price in Japan. It all evens out though, because you can get antimicrobials in Siem Reap for pocket change that would cost a week's wages in the States. If only we could combine all of the best of these bubbles . . .