Wanted a Nick Chubb Browns retro jersey. $170 on the NFL team shot website. Went to a Chinese knockoff site, I could’ve bought 7 different jerseys for $170. The price difference is just insane. How can they justify pricing a jersey at $170? Do people actually buy it?
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If you think the cheap Chinese knock off will do the same job as the real thing then you may as well go for it.
I mean if NFL GM thought a cheap Chinese knock off could do the same job as their starting RB they would.
People absolutely buy them. I think a lot of it comes from gift giving and people buying them when they’re at the game. If your spending close to $1k on tickets, food, lodging, travel whatever to go see your team play, $170 for a cool keep sake you get to keep forever isn’t that much.
I agree its expensive but I still have every jersey I’ve ever bought or been given. I just gave a Terrell Davis jersey I got as a kid to my niece who is just getting into football.
Plus ebay exists. You can find tons of high quality jerseys for older players for under $50 and many for under $25. I’d rather do that than DH Gate, personally.
If you care about quality at all I think and don’t mind the players being a litter older, ebay is really your best friend. You can find high quality, stitched jerseys often for under $50.
Honestly for $170 you are getting a knock off quality jersey. The elites are cool but are about double the price.
That being said, I think a lot of people buy these when they attend games and want something to take home and keep forever. Personally, I would not buy a new standard jersey from the NFL because of the chasm between quality and price.
I also don’t fuck with DH Gate because it confuses me and don’t know how to tell who produces decent knock offs.
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Honestly, I think it’s getting back to the days of the late 2000s and early 2010s when people were buying a ton of knock off jerseys. What is interesting is what does the future of Fanatics look like? Their quality is so poor, that a lot of fans, from across the major sports leagues, are just looking for alternate options in order to avoid buying from them. How long until their profits start plummeting and the leagues boot them out the door? What Fanatics is doing is a recipe for disaster. As a card collector, what they’ve done to Topps is a travesty. Quality control essentially doesn’t exist anymore, it’s overproduced, it’s overpriced, and the release dates are all over, where 2022 stuff was still coming out this summer.