(Even if that means that I will go broke faster!)
A recent post on AT New York:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/good-questions/good-questions-should-i-spring-for-a-knockoff-020884

This got me thinking on the polarity of people in regards of the issue of the mind set of the buyer of knock off products and the tasks that we designer have at hand in order to inform the masses about the mistake they are about to make.
At the end, you get what you pay for. If you think $2645 is overpriced for the Knoll version, the knock-off is $750 overpriced to what it should've cost. The excitement of the savings, will fade as soon as you realize the poor craftmanship and the zero resale value. Everything is relative. What is expensive to us is cheap to others and what's cheap to us is expensive to others. I work in a very specific niche of industrial design and I get my products knocked-off on regular basis and they sell for 95% off my price with crappy quality. So, yes, i have a vendetta against the knock-off industry. But don't listen to me. I'm a brand-a-whore.