Counterfeit Audioquest Cables


I just wanted to put out a general query in regards to how people feel Audioquest is handling the issue of counterfeit cables. Personally, I am a huge fan of Audioquest and their products but I feel there could be a little more room for transparency on their behalf... No pun intended...

I don't mean to sound like a total heretic or a paranoid conspiracy theorist but I don't feel like my suspicions would be totally misplaced if I were to speculate that Audioquest is not only benefiting from the existence of bogus copycat look alikes but that they are deliberately allowing it to happen if not entirely responsible for it in the first place.

It is undeniably an effective way to dissuade consumers from private sales and coercing them into paying full retail prices for any of their products. It's also hard to ignore the steady decline in classified ads for Audioquest products on the various audiomarts.

Also, to the best of my knowledge, the AudioQuest Authentication Process also does not require them to explain their findings thus granting them authority to summarily judge a cable's authenticity.

In my humble opinion, a company as innovative as Audioquest could certainly divine a method to apply serial numbers to their products. That way, everything could be traceable and consumers could register their products. Not to mention that Audioquest could rebuild some of the lost confidence in their brand name.

Am I totally out of line here or perhaps missing something obvious? I would love to hear more points of view...
pontifex
elizabeth...never have i mentioned bad, good or ugly.  Please re-read my statements! 
Some of the best quality electronics originates from China. Recall where your iPhones originate. 
The origin of AQ cables means nothing.  Termination etc.. are the most important things to keep in mind.  That's for most cables.  I've run into a pair of counterfit only once.  That was in a dealer showroom where he was showing folks the difference between a full set of balanced interconnect and speaker cables he bought online as eh had a feeling they were fake.  

He was mostly curious as to how they sounded and boy did he find out within seconds.  The fakes were actually bad.  They looked very very close to the AQ's, but weren't.  That said, most sold used are fine.  I have purchased all of mine from dealers over the years.  I often keep my original purchase slip just in case, so I know where I got them.  I also keep the original boxes (although my Horizon/WEL came from someone who used to be a higher up at AQ and he didn't have the packaging, lol).  I know they aren't fake though, lol (they are the best interconnects I've ever heard.