Sugarcane --EVERYONE PLEASE READ--

[Mauro]

I have spoken with the Sugar Cane Reps and we have come to an consensus that NO store should discount sugar cane in any manor.
Sugar Cane believes that there pricing are reflective of their superior product.
They have been around longer than most of all the brands you love today.
I repsepct them as a brand and will honor their request.
This be will be effective immediately.
Thank you for all your support!
Mauro

47's are $217.00
55's are a limited edition at 390.00
you can always check history preservation.com for any and all sugar Can products.

 

[Brian SD]

bastards!

 

[Gaius Pompeius Trimalchio]

Funny, since they're so much cheaper in Japan! Maybe we in America are getting a more "superior" product, with so much drama over the archuate and the tab.

I love Sugarcane and all, but this is absurd, and demonstrates an ignorance about the retail business in the US.

 

[Brian SD]

Originally Posted by Gaius Pompeius Trimalchio

Funny, since they're so much cheaper in Japan! Maybe we in America are getting a more "superior" product, with so much drama over the archuate and the tab.

I love Sugarcane and all, but this is absurd, and demonstrates an ignorance about the retail business in the US.

Well I wouldn't go that far. I think every brand has a right to make this decision. Sugarcane wants to give people the impression that their product is so high quality and desired, there is nothing less to pay for it than full retail. I am sure this is entirely the decision of the US distributor, thus the comarison to the Japanese price is more or less a moot point. Lots of other companies do the same thing. Louis Vuitton is one such example.

 

[poly800rock]

Originally Posted by Gaius Pompeius Trimalchio

Funny, since they're so much cheaper in Japan! Maybe we in America are getting a more "superior" product, with so much drama over the archuate and the tab.

I love Sugarcane and all, but this is absurd, and demonstrates an ignorance about the retail business in the US.

i agree....curiously, are you guys buying sugarcane from history preservation or directly from sugarcane?

 

[Mauro]

Brian is correct. once a distributor comes into play prices change. You have customs duties and several other charges( commision fees) that you wouldn't have buying them in Japan.
Try buying an American product in Japan its crazy expensive would that be a demonstration in retail business ignorance.

 

[thisisme]

how much were SC's before like 130 -150

 

[Arethusa]

Yes, but back then they didn't have as much superior in them.

 

[tundrafour]

Originally Posted by Denimbar

Try buying an American product in Japan its crazy expensive would that be a demonstration in retail business ignorance.
I don't know, imported American CDs are far cheaper in Japan than domestic Japanese releases of the same album. I assume this would hold true for at least some other products. Not that this has much to do with jeans.

 

[Dill]

Originally Posted by tundrafour

I don't know, imported American CDs are far cheaper in Japan than domestic Japanese releases of the same album. I assume this would hold true for at least some other products. Not that this has much to do with jeans.

The popularity of Abercrombie in Japan, which is abundant here but rare in Japan is a testament to this phenomenon.

 

[LA Guy]

Originally Posted by tundrafour

I don't know, imported American CDs are far cheaper in Japan than domestic Japanese releases of the same album. I assume this would hold true for at least some other products. Not that this has much to do with jeans.
It has remarkably little to do with jeans. You know what the Japanese love? Rogan. Anything Rogan. I have no idea why, but if you think that Rogan products are expensive here, try buying them in Japan. They command 45RPM prices. Edun and Loomstate are similar. True Religion is also remarkably popular. And although I see this much less here than at Superfuture, the reverence for things made in Japan here is reciprocated in some fashionable Japanese circles for things American.

 

[Gaius Pompeius Trimalchio]

Originally Posted by Brian SD

Well I wouldn't go that far. I think every brand has a right to make this decision. Sugarcane wants to give people the impression that their product is so high quality and desired, there is nothing less to pay for it than full retail. I am sure this is entirely the decision of the US distributor, thus the comarison to the Japanese price is more or less a moot point. Lots of other companies do the same thing. Louis Vuitton is one such example.

If only I could head to Chinatown and pick up some SC1947 knock-offs to resell on the B&S forum!

More seriously, this model is why I worry about the solvency of places like BiG. I just don't think the market is big enough to justify the price in the US. Sure, forum members will always be willing to pony up the big bucks for their Japanese brands, but how sustainable is this? When I browse the streetwear forum, I see a lot of the same names--I suspect that the market is not growing the way the forum seemed to grow APC. Apart from a devout forum following, Japanese brands in the US have very little to sustain themselves. We originally had this argument about a site called History Preservation, for chrissake.

And for me, personally, I would have bought at least three more pairs for myself, and maybe a couple more as gifts if retailers properly exploited the golden ticket of internet shopping--the 25% off and free shipping coupon!

 

[Bandwagonesque]

I thought RPM (resale price maintenance) is illegal under the Sherman Antitrust Act in the US?

 

[deputamadre]

True Bandwagon. The RPM has to be proven to be negatively affecting the consumer. Section 1 of Sherman Act on price-fixing.

 

[montecristo#4]

Originally Posted by LA Guy

It has remarkably little to do with jeans. You know what the Japanese love? Rogan. Anything Rogan. I have no idea why....

Because it's the only label that can tajke on Godzilla: