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Originally Posted by welfare
you can probably figure out the point that i'm driving at here
however, i realize this is becoming quite the dead horse, so i'll leave with this:
no one is going to know the difference between an extremely well made, unauthentic garment that costs roughly half the price of the authentic one, and the "real" article. it's all in the head of the buyer. you can lie to yourself all you want, but it won't change the truth.
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But they know. Maybe these ppl don't care about what others think. Maybe they do it for themselves cuz clothes are important to them. Or maybe they care about both. Yeah, some ppl do it for status alone, but what can you do?
If there was a copy-cat artist of Alicia Keys and no one could tell apart the real from the fake, would I buy the fake for $1? No. This copy-cat didn't make anything.
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the authentic articles main area of cost is with the advertising, not the actual garment. and is still nowhere near the cost of retail. it is obviously, at least in my mind, reasonable to believe that they could be duplicated to exact specification for half the retail price and still be profitable. some people in this thread act as if these authentic goods are made by gods and not in the sweat shop next door to the one producing the fakes. to be honest, i used to buy into the whole versace, D&G, hugo boss garbage, but now i actually see things for what they are. the world is plagued with so much deceit, and the name brand is probably one of the simplest forms. in closing, i wouldn't be caught dead wearing a fake item, for fear that somebody may mistake it as being real
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Like you said earlier, cost is irrelevant to the sale price. I think you understand good quality deserves high margins. What you ignore is originality, style, creativity, and the ability to create a brand that resonates with the market. Maybe you don't value these things but if everyone was just like you, we'd have THE GAP, beige PCs, Britney Spears
and that's it. It could be clothes, computers, music, etc. Originality that works has value because it's rare. If it was easy, then first thing tmr morning you should be able to create an expensive brand of whatever and find endless buyers for 100x cost, right?