Annadale
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(nice avatar btw)....
Cheers, Bill is a favourite of mine.
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"ugly". "third-world." Yeah, you're a first-world class act who can't afford a $400 sweater. This is your original post small-timer
I honestly can't say I can agree with that from the experience, albiet not lifetime, I have in China and Taiwan in regardless of why higher end goods are more expensive. My main reason is that there is a huge disparity of wealth in China, much worse than Western countries. Let me give you a hypothetical example:
In regards to clothing made in China; if I can pay 400$ for a sweater I would like to think the company who made it can pay their employee who made it more than 1$ an hour. When companies move factories to China they aren't doing it because they think quality will improve, or even stay the same, but rather to cut costs.
If I am buying luxury items of any sort I would prefer to buy from a manufacturer that has some pride in it's products, and isn't willing to jeopardize their quality in order to cut corners and save money.
I understand people will jump all over this and say the purpose of a company is to make money, but the markup in luxury clothing is extreme regardless of where a product is made so moving manufacturing to China from the buyers perspective simply means you are going to be even more gouged.
Hey douche bag,the sweater was at fuckin' Marshalls,was marked $750 from the factory,$399 sale,$249 clearance,and $179 final clearance.The only reason I would buy the ******* hideous thing is if I could resell it and make a profit,which I found very unlikely.It wasn't even my size,even if it was given to me it would be useless to me with the exception of resale.Do you think if I paid $180 for it it would be worth my time to resell it?I'd be lucky to get $180 back.I never even went into Marshalls until before Christmas because forum members here kept claiming that there some crazy deals to be had,although I haven't seen a single thing I would want.The only 2 half decent things I've seen were that ****** sweater and a Dolce and Gabanna white herringbone shirt with loose threads hanging off it with a listed retail of $188 and a clearance price of $90.I can proxy either if you're interested.I assume you're good for it after running your mouth so much about you being the only person who could afford a $400(actually $179)Chinese Sweater.
I can also think of a couple of other reasons why an individual might not wish to buy MIC items: 1. If production of an item in their home country has been offshored to China, they may resent the loss of jobs and/or feel that the traditional way of making that item can't be maintained.
Quality comes from the ordering company. QC can be enforced tightly if the upper management has eyes on it.
Sadly what I would suggest is that there's a strand of xenophobia among some of the white US/European posters that expresses itself in some of these Made in China threads. Italy is okay because those people are like us and have similar values. China isn't because they're culturally so different and have different value systems, etc.
I am little confused by what you are saying: Are you suggesting that the middle/upper class in China is not expanding? Do you think wealth inequality is worse than it was during the full-on Communist days? I don't know enough about socio-economic figures in China, but everything I've read has lead me to believe that there has been a huge influx of wealth into the country (hence China hold US govt bonds, etc.); perhaps this isn't distributed very evenly at all (at least by US/European standards).