“…More importantly is that consumers' demand for counterfeit products and brands is steadily growing (Bian, Wang, Smith, & Yannopoulou, 2016). Owing to better technological progress, the quality of counterfeit products has been improving, triggering therefore consumers' demand and purchase willingness (Bian & Moutinho, 2009;Bian, Haque, & Smith, 2015;Li, Lam, & Liu, 2018;Qin, Hui Shi, Song, Stöttinger, & Tan, 2018;Toklu & Baran, 2017). The counterfeits' quality has remarkably improved to the extent that it becomes even harder for consumers to distinguish it from that of the genuine products.…”