Saving money,,,really?
- Thread starter skyraider
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If one is smart enough, one can buy similar clothes made in Asia directly from manufacturers for 10-15% of what you pay at stores which get it shipped here in bulk and "pass the savings" on to you.
The tags on the clothes usually say made in Vietnam,,,wonderful. The 50 to 100 dollar list price is what gets me ----------yep we are all easy prey imho. I'll just stick with my "I love Skoals", wife beater T-shirt....lmao
The 10-15% of retail is spot on, because the retail markup is in the 80-90% range. Whatever the retail price is, you can bet the cost of labor and materials is about 10% of that. For a time my mom worked for a clothing designer in New York (Paula Saker). Saker did designs under her own label, but a lot of what she did was exclusive stuff for stores like Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Barneys New York, Saks and Bloomingdales under the store brand labels. There were, for example, dresses that sold for $2000 at Barkeys New York that my mom bought for $150. She had some pantsuits and skirtsuits for work that she paid $50 for, that sold for $500-$750 in the stores.
Label is what is missing on some clothes, that's it.
I can direct you to place in China that sells iPhones without logo. Looks identical (probably made in same place, or copied precisely in the next plant).
No warranty, but hey, it's not priced tenfold either.