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٭٭٭ No Man Walks Alone - Official Affiliate Thread ٭٭٭ (a.k.a. I shouldn't have slept on it)

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if you don't look at the store whose affiliate thread this is then what exactly is the purpose of your initial post?

if price is one of your criteria and second is ability to return goods purchased at discount and you already know places which have that option then why make a random post here?

penultimately, Mr. Porter is multi-million dollar venture, are you really comparing the economics of that with NoMan?

last, before you offer a retort, **** off mate!
I’m not comparing economics, and don’t care to do so. I do browse NMWA, but not often, as I said originally. It was a simple and valid question.
You are clearly bothered and upset by my comments which I find odd and unusable.
 

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I realize that you may have missed it since you rarely look at us, but we did have a 20% off promotion (not final sale) for 3 full months from March 19 to June 19. That was a not-final sale. And this, now, is the end of the season sale, so it’s our final sale.

does that answer your question?
No. My question is so very simple. Shopping online is a different dynamic and you cannot always determine if a product is right for you based on measurements and photos.
 

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But I did answer your question though.
 

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No. When you buy or at what price shouldn’t limit your options to return or exchange. I have never seen this policy before with clothing retailers.
 

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But your question though, I did answer it. You keep adding strange statements (you’ve never seen final sales, really?) but I did address your question asking why our sales are “always final” by pointing out that they aren’t. Something that you understandably missed since you rarely look at us, but was nonetheless the fact for 3 full months.
 

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No. When you buy or at what price shouldn’t limit your options to return or exchange. I have never seen this policy before with clothing retailers.

three different retailers in North America! same condition on discounted items, but you keep spinning wheels!

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Why are the sales always "Final"? This is ridiculous...if an item does not fit, you have to be able to return it. At least a store credit would suffice. I've really never seen this with any other online retailer.
I realize that you may have missed it since you rarely look at us, but we did have a 20% off promotion (not final sale) for 3 full months from March 19 to June 19. That was a not-final sale. And this, now, is the end of the season sale, so it’s our final sale.

does that answer your question?
No. My question is so very simple. Shopping online is a different dynamic and you cannot always determine if a product is right for you based on measurements and photos.
No. When you buy or at what price shouldn’t limit your options to return or exchange. I have never seen this policy before with clothing retailers.

Greg clearly answered your question. As a reminder, questions are followed by question marks.

Your question was “Why are sales always Final?”

Greg’s answer was that sales are not always final and that NMWA offered a sale lasting a number of months.

So, unless I missed another question mark, I think your question was answered.

Everything else you wrote is simply commentary on a policy you don’t like, which frankly, isn’t all that uncommon from smaller retailers. For instance, NAMU, Blue Owl, Blue in Green, Self Edge, CHCM, and Nepenthes just to name a few.
 

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Greg clearly answered your question. As a reminder, questions are followed by question marks.

Your question was “Why are sales always Final?”

Greg’s answer was that sales are not always final and that NMWA offered a sale lasting a number of months.

So, unless I missed another question mark, I think your question was answered.

Everything else you wrote is simply commentary on a policy you don’t like, which frankly, isn’t all that uncommon from smaller retailers. For instance, NAMU, Blue Owl, Blue in Green, Self Edge, CHCM, and Nepenthes just to name a few.

You can even add bigger shops like J. Crew, Uniqlo, and Todd Snyder to that list. And, Sid Mashburn's sale items are "final sale" once the discount hits 70% off. Plus, while Mr. Porter doesn't, Net-A-Porter marks their items "final sale" at the last stage of their seasonal sales.
 

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No. My question is so very simple. Shopping online is a different dynamic and you cannot always determine if a product is right for you based on measurements and photos.

In an attempt to discuss this in good faith, it's possible that the final sale price is a trade-off for lower price to the consumer for a commitment to lower cost to the business (i.e. no return/no restocking fees/etc).

Do the tone/responses of the forum members really surprise you? You join an affiliate thread and start making demands in the guise of a question. When somebody tries to share some perspective by pointing to the economics of the business and not the consumer, your response is that you don't care about that at all.

Not sure of your intentions, but I think you can see how your approach has made it difficult to carry on an actual discussion about this :brick:. At the end of the day, one of the perks of owning a business is that you get to make your own choices and you don't need to explain your decision to every person that may disagree with your approach.
 

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I would assume that at a certain time of the year you have to assess your financial strength to prepare for the next seasons buys and it’s hard to do that while waiting to see how much of what you just sold is going to come back and sit on your shelves indefinitely.
 

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Vida is clearly wrong but I don’t think the nasty tone is required from the rest of us. It just alienates and serves no real purpose other than to shame the other side which will only galvanizes them in their position imo. Sorry if I sound like I’m coming from on high.
 

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Vida is clearly wrong but I don’t think the nasty tone is required from the rest of us. It just alienates and serves no real purpose other than to shame the other side which will only galvanizes them in their position imo. Sorry if I sound like I’m coming from on high.

Right, the more measured responses were probably more effective, but the OP was not in good faith and he got our gander up!
 

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Vida is clearly wrong but I don’t think the nasty tone is required from the rest of us. It just alienates and serves no real purpose other than to shame the other side which will only galvanizes them in their position imo. Sorry if I sound like I’m coming from on high.

There are a lot of responses in this thread that make it seem like buying from NMWA is a secret and closed club. If you're not already in the club, you can't join.
 

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There are a lot of responses in this thread that make it seem like buying from NMWA is a secret and closed club. If you're not already in the club, you can't join.
I joined the club recently, and I can say with full confidence, that if you can afford the merchandise, you are in the club.
 

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