It was the same for me when I travelled to the Ukraine in 2005...there, were .Faberge Egg trinket boxes being touted at markets..as the genuine article...and they were so poorly made that even a blind man could tell that they were fake ...and, there was many other things,like the wooden dolls within dolls,.....and the odd thing was, they would,nt accept the local currency..everythin g was priced in US dollars....