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Author Topic: Don't Get Shirty!  (Read 2099 times)

dave.m

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Don't Get Shirty!
« on: October 10, 2007, 07:00:58 PM »

" 'Company X’ markets its products in the UK in accordance with a retailer distribution policy, ensuring that the retail environment for the sale of 'Company X’ products complies with certain minimum quality standards, so as to enable the customer to make purchases in an appropriate retail environment," it said in a statement.
"Retailers meeting the relevant minimum standards can purchase the relevant Company ’X’ products,


What products do you think 'Company X’ is referring to?

High class sports cars?
High end Home Entertainment Systems?
Specialist computers?
Top class mobile communications equipment?

Not even near:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7028248.stm

“I don’t believe …………”   Calm down Victor!  :-X

It would serve the money grabbing companies right if all Supermarkets refused to even contemplate selling any of their products.  >:(
As for ‘fans’ who buy these things, I shake my head in disbelief that they pay out so much money when ‘iffy’ ones are available at almost every car boot sale and market for about a tenth of the price.   ::)
If quality is not quite as good, so what, I think five  cheap shirts will outlast one genuine shirt and at half the price, with the added bonus that you can look smart in a new one five times over.  :P

dave
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roseway

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Re: Don't Get Shirty!
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2007, 07:04:12 AM »

It's just price fixing wrapped up in a feeble disguise. They know that the supermarkets would sell at lower prices and devalue the apparent status of these pointless products.
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Re: Don't Get Shirty!
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2007, 10:10:17 AM »

Who wants to pay forty quid for a shirt that's probably cost no more than a fiver to make in some far eastern sweat shop, that pays wages of 50p an hour (if they're lucky)?
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Re: Don't Get Shirty!
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2007, 10:19:41 AM »

Same thing in Asda,£3 for a pair of jeans.do people ever stop to think why they are only £3,I don't think so.Like you say some mass chinese factories are churning these out.The staff work 14 hours a day for buttons.Then you wonder about global warming.
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Re: Don't Get Shirty!
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2007, 07:28:22 PM »

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