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In some cases American Company actually encourage people to buy knock offs with their outrageous prices. Where I work, people were ordering "official" NFL jersey's for $12 each from a Chinese website. The Official NFL stores are charging any where from $100 to $300 per shirt. I can understand a company wanting to make a profit, but charging $300 for a shirt that cost less than 3 bucks to make is customer price gouging. So in respect to the NFL losing money I say Fuck them.

TechGromit says

n some cases American Company actually encourage people to buy knock offs with their outrageous prices. Where I work, people were ordering "official" NFL jersey's for $12 each from a Chinese website. The Official NFL stores are charging any where from $100 to $300 per shirt. I can understand a company wanting to make a profit, but charging $300 for a shirt that cost less than 3 bucks to make is customer price gouging. So in respect to the NFL losing money I say Fuck them.

I'm guessing that the official NFL Jersey is also made in China...

zzyzzx says

I'm guessing that the official NFL Jersey is also made in China...

Just out of curiousity, i visited NFL online store, and found they actually do sell jersey at $99 ~ $300. And this is the description taken from $300 pittsburgh steelers jersey.

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Features

100% polyester shell and inserts
Tackle twill player and team graphics on the chest, back and sleeves
1776-1976 American Revolution Bicentennial patch sewn on front left shoulder
Woven 1975 throwback jock tag on lower left front above hem
Decorated in the team colors
Officially licensed
Imported

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PockyClipsNow says

can you share these sites?

Alibaba? Taobao? Made-in-china dot com?

The way things are going , the Chinese may even be willing to export stuff with ,"Made in America" tags.

This could get interesting if they keep exporting their capital:
A Wall Street Journal analysis of that data suggests that in the 12 months through September, about $225 billion flowed out of China, equivalent to about 3% of the nation's economic output last year... "It's not a good sign when local businessmen begin to think it's better to take money offshore, especially when the world economy is in such bad shape."

zzyzzx says

I'm guessing that the official NFL Jersey is also made in China...

Yes. I'm not sure if it the NFL Shirt manufacturer in China selling them out of the back door or another manufacturer all together, but from what I heard the quality is the same. Not every knock off coming out of China is an inferior product.

Here's how it goes: American company exports manufacturing of patented product to Chinese factory business. Factory churns out product at low rate. Six months later same product is available as a knock off with identical quality. American company goes out of business several years later. Really pays to ship jobs to china huh?! Just wait until the knock off iPhones and iPads are available here. That plus kindle fire HD will put a dent in apple.

seaside says

PockyClipsNow says

can you share these sites?

Alibaba? Taobao? Made-in-china dot com?

Yeah, exactly. I was investigating importing stuff to open a baby store (place is in the middle of a baby boom because the pop is overwhelmingly 16-30 here). I saw Pampers and J&J products - or at least they were on the packaging. When you scrolled down, I think it was dhgate.com, and looked at the pics of the products themselves, the diapers had Chinese Characters and Asian-style cartoons on them, and the J&J product listed "Soybean Oil" as the #1 ingredient, which J&J does not use.

We can substitute cheap feline labor in the US to make what's currently made in China.