Here you can find some tips to avoid buying couterfeits, copies, fakes, bootlegs Harry Potter's clothing, unlicensed and illegal Harry Potter's clothing.

1) All products must meet requeriments of Warner Bros.' company and its licensing program as Warner Bros. is the owner of the rights of Harry Potter's movie customer products. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., the licensor, gives the license to their licensees through their representatives or through their agents located worldwide.

2) Harry Potter's clothing must have tags and labels. All licensees are required to identify their products as being officially licensed by affixing hang tags and labels to all licensed merchandise. Tags must bear "Harry Potter" on front and "TM & © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s0x)" on back. (s0x) is the year of the licensing program. Additionaly could have manufacturer/distributor's trademark or name.

3) Licensee must meet Warner's requeriments regarding quality, designs, colours, patterns, fonts, among many others that are taken from the Warner's "Product Manual". And for that reason you will find similar tags and labels designs, colours, etc. within the products of different licensees.

4) Not all clothing that show Harry Potter's official images/pictures/designs (posters, press material, printings, etc.) are officially licensed. It is very simple to get official images from sources not given directly (with permission) from Warner and manufacture unlicensed goods.

5) It is recommended that buyers could see pictures of the real products and avoid buying products that only show the main design/picture/detail and even better if the pictures are large, detailed and have the best possible quality. This could help you to see the quality, tags and labels of the licensed products.

6) Ask sellers if they have certificates or proofs that guarantee you that goods are produced under Warner's license.

7) Buy products from traditional and vast experienced in the license clothing market companies as Hot Topic, Rubies, among others, but have in mind that there are many companies that have signed licensing agreements with Warner and met identical Warner's requeriments to make their Warner's licensed products.

8) If the price seems to be too good to be true for a licensed product, it is probably illegal. Prices of licensed products are higher than non-licensed products since the licensees must add the amount of the royalties to the final price.

We hope it helps to the HP's fans to get 100% guaranteed officially licensed Harry Potter's merchandise.