| BBC on counterfeit kits 11:56 - Nov 27 with 4030 views | Zx1988 |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/fo
Two thoughts:
1) Absolutely not a put-up job by those with vested interests and profits to lose, particularly with us now entering the Christmas shopping period.
2) Has anyone actually ever ended up with a rash from a snide shirt? My understanding was that the top-end ones (i.e. the ones that most people will be buying) tend to be made in the same factories as the genuine stuff.
Maybe if clubs were so keen for people not to buy counterfeit kits, they could bring the prices down, rather than trying to scaremonger people into compliance? |  |
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| BBC on counterfeit kits on 12:04 - Nov 27 with 3982 views | MrPotatoHead |
If its both a) not a new thing and b) potentially harmful, then it rather begs the question where the examples are of people being harmed?
The cost is probably the working conditions of the folk making them in Chinese factories. I've never bought fake football shirts, but I don't buy 'real' ones either as I wouldn't wear it to games and wouldn't wear it away from games. |  | | |
| BBC on counterfeit kits on 12:32 - Nov 27 with 3874 views | rickw |
They said it "could" be harmful - I think by this mean they haven't checked it's not, they also haven't checked it's not made of gold....
It says on there is costs £10 to make a real shirt, if they they sold them for £30 - £10 each profit for the club and manufacturer I'm sure far more people would buy them instead of the fakes |  |
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| BBC on counterfeit kits on 12:35 - Nov 27 with 3854 views | Zx1988 |
| BBC on counterfeit kits on 12:04 - Nov 27 by MrPotatoHead |
If its both a) not a new thing and b) potentially harmful, then it rather begs the question where the examples are of people being harmed?
The cost is probably the working conditions of the folk making them in Chinese factories. I've never bought fake football shirts, but I don't buy 'real' ones either as I wouldn't wear it to games and wouldn't wear it away from games. |
Nail on head, I think.
Had there been examples of harm, no doubt the client media would have gleefully jumped on headlines like 'Fake England Shirt Gave My Son Third Degree Burns'.
I'm not so sure on working conditions, though. It wouldn't surprise me if the pukka shirts use just the same exploitative labour as the knock-offs.
End of the day, if I can get a bundle of near perfect football shirts for the price of one from an official retailer, I know which option I'm choosing. | |
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| BBC on counterfeit kits on 12:37 - Nov 27 with 3832 views | NedPlimpton |
| BBC on counterfeit kits on 12:32 - Nov 27 by rickw |
They said it "could" be harmful - I think by this mean they haven't checked it's not, they also haven't checked it's not made of gold....
It says on there is costs £10 to make a real shirt, if they they sold them for £30 - £10 each profit for the club and manufacturer I'm sure far more people would buy them instead of the fakes |
This may be the simplest P&L report ever! |  | | |
| BBC on counterfeit kits on 13:15 - Nov 27 with 3736 views | BasingstokeBlue |
| BBC on counterfeit kits on 12:04 - Nov 27 by MrPotatoHead |
If its both a) not a new thing and b) potentially harmful, then it rather begs the question where the examples are of people being harmed?
The cost is probably the working conditions of the folk making them in Chinese factories. I've never bought fake football shirts, but I don't buy 'real' ones either as I wouldn't wear it to games and wouldn't wear it away from games. |
No examples cited (surprise, surprise). VERY liberal use of the "could" word (presumably to legally cover their a*ses). |  |
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| BBC on counterfeit kits on 13:46 - Nov 27 with 3672 views | Zx1988 |
| BBC on counterfeit kits on 13:15 - Nov 27 by BasingstokeBlue |
No examples cited (surprise, surprise). VERY liberal use of the "could" word (presumably to legally cover their a*ses). |
Indeed.
The 'could' is probably doing as much heavy lifting there as in the claim that 'wearing a shirt with WARK 5 on the back could turn you into a world-class midfielder'. | |
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