just heard on the grapevine that rangy are advertising stores in the usa as stockists when these stores have never stocked rangy mountain company. heard one store is well ****** and threatening legals

i find it hard to believe any store would knowingly buy rangy so they have to make believe

pretending your brand is in stores which do not stock it is a sign of extreme desperation

I think many stores have wised up to rangy's antics in the past and wont touch their products with a barge pole now!

i know a retailer who said they were trying to sell him rmc jeans and then he checked them out and got wise.

That is surely illegal?

i used to work for a small brand and we put down a long list of prestigeous stores on our website store locator to give us more kudos. when we went in store to make a sale we would then say to the owner look at all these stores that sell our product rangy mountain company are following our well worn example. most store owners and managers are aware of this sting these days.

As I always say, never trust a salesman!

obviously that is morally illegal but is it actually illegal?

Obtaining Money (business) by deception, would probably cover it.