Most local guitar players here can't even afford a complete set so they are even sold per string . As for counterfeit, most stuff comes here from China and as you might be aware of, that is the biggest xerox machine on this world but nothing we can do about it unless we order them from Amazon.com and pay ourselfs blue to get them here so I switched to Elexir strings and they, although packed in a paper bag per string to, together with Dunlop 65 string cleaner at least last some longer.

But hey, that's live.