1finny
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Never had a problem with the ones from Jack Hatfields, well made and reasonable price.
With a bit of cheeky discount thrown in too
Never had a problem with the ones from Jack Hatfields, well made and reasonable price.
I wouldn't even know where to buy a fake boro shirt??
But those DHG shirts dont have the badge or errea label so theyre just the same as the 80s snides with sew on badges, for me.
It's strange that Leicester City got fined £880k for not letting JD Sports undercut them, but we can just stop other companies selling our kits altogether and that's perfectly fine.Well the Club holds the monopoly on the shirts, sort of, so is it greed on their behalf not to sell in on the high street. Works both ways.
We have fans World wide who demand to wear shirts to follow their team. The Clubs seems to want to keep it local for local fans unless you buy on line from the Club which obviously incurs VAT for non EU customers, so I see why people go don the cheaper option.
What you need to do is get them some cheaper fake ones. Could get one every season"The last kits my children had were from 2 seasons ago and they still wear them occasionally, but they understand we can't afford to buy them the new kit every season."
They have all the badges in the correct places, as well as the EFL Championship badge on the sleeve.But those DHG shirts dont have the badge or errea label so theyre just the same as the 80s snides with sew on badges, for me.
If you are outside the UK the delivery fees alone are more than buying the fake shirt plus delivery. £13.50 for Europe or £16 worldwide. £6 delivery in the UK is also shocking and it's not even next day, that'll cost you £8 and no matter how much you spend it is never free. They are even profiteering off delivery because I know a small package costs £3 to deliver and I'd be expecting a retail business will benefit from economies of scale.We have fans World wide who demand to wear shirts to follow their team. The Clubs seems to want to keep it local for local fans unless you buy on line from the Club which obviously incurs VAT for non EU customers, so I see why people go don the cheaper option.
Especially Boro ones.
You're hurting the club you supposedly love, and it's illegal.
(They're also mainly made using slave labour through human trafficking too, which is....y'know, bad)
/rant
If you are outside the UK the delivery fees alone are more than buying the fake shirt plus delivery. £13.50 for Europe or £16 worldwide. £6 delivery in the UK is also shocking and it's not even next day, that'll cost you £8 and no matter how much you spend it is never free. They are even profiteering off delivery because I know a small package costs £3 to deliver and I'd be expecting a retail business will benefit from economies of scale.
I said on the other thread about Boro being taken over that Gibson has made decision after decision to shrink the fanbase instead of growing it and this is a perfect example of that. We do have fans world wide but I bet they are all from Teesside originally. He has done nothing to expand our fanbase. We had top international players, we were playing in Europe and you could still only buy our merchandise from the club directly. I've never met a Boro fan that wasn't originally from Teesside (or their family was at least). I have seen kids in Sports shops being allowed to just pick a kit from any team they like and they are never going to pick a Boro kit because it isn't there. Someone like Sports Direct probably wouldn't stock our kit these days around the country but that opportunity was there 20 years ago and Gibson took the decision that getting a couple of extra quid from each top was more important than increasing the number of fans. For someone who is supposed to be a successful businessman he gets fundamental decisions wrong all the time.
I think the reverse engineering point is the main one.They won't be made in the same factory, even if they were made in the same country. I've dealt with a lot of Chinese factories, it's a massive industry and the idea that a factory would just kick out extra stock for other websites is daft, they'd lose their contract in a heartbeat.
People say the same about off brand supermarket products but it's rare it actually happens - what usually happens is a firm may make products for a supermarket brand but will use completely different recipe and ingredients but the same manufacturing process, which is why they taste competently different despite some people claiming Tesco beans taste the same as Heinz, when they absolutely don't unless you've lost your sense of taste.
But they don't need to, numerous factories will reverse engineer ant products and some will be better than others. You still get ones with spelling mistakes in the product or use old versions etc but the good ones are very good at what they do.
As is the case with football shirts, the cheaper beans are often better than Heinz.They won't be made in the same factory, even if they were made in the same country. I've dealt with a lot of Chinese factories, it's a massive industry and the idea that a factory would just kick out extra stock for other websites is daft, they'd lose their contract in a heartbeat.
People say the same about off brand supermarket products but it's rare it actually happens - what usually happens is a firm may make products for a supermarket brand but will use completely different recipe and ingredients but the same manufacturing process, which is why they taste competently different despite some people claiming Tesco beans taste the same as Heinz, when they absolutely don't unless you've lost your sense of taste.
But they don't need to, numerous factories will reverse engineer ant products and some will be better than others. You still get ones with spelling mistakes in the product or use old versions etc but the good ones are very good at what they do.