Originally Posted by
hipcheck5
A few comments:
1) These jersey's are made from the real materials. I call them "real fakes" they also do soccer and hockey jersey's. There are two ways this happens, a) A bolt of fabric gets a small spot so they sell it to an employee for cheap since they can't use it with the machinery without recalibrating and b) Someone orders 500 jersey's and the plant makes 600 and sells the other 100 as "real fakes." The quality is usually either perfect or near perfect, if you know what you are looking for.
2) Personally I have little problem buying a "real fake" when someone is charging big money and a huge mark up. $99 for a jersey that costs about $5 to make.
I believe you're talking about factory seconds, while the jerseys the OP is linking to are not even made in the same factory or by the same company. I have a problem with paying as much as they charge for music recordings, but I still respect copyrights because the consumer sets the price by voting with their dollar.