Wanted a Nick Chubb Browns retro jersey. $170 on the NFL team shot website. Went to a Chinese knockoff site, I could’ve bought 7 different jerseys for $170. The price difference is just insane. How can they justify pricing a jersey at $170? Do people actually buy it?
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They knockoffs are 50/50 being completely horrible though. I have multiple from dh gate. 3 look like clear fakes, really bad quality, won’t wear them. 1 is perfect
I broke down and bought a Jaylen Waddle jersey at Hard Rock Stadium for around $150. Less than 2 years later the colors from the name/number etc is already starting to peel off. It’s nice to wear on gameday, but I don’t see myself ever buying another one.
Insanity. Over double the cost the jersey my dad bought for me at my first game 10 years ago.
Go to eBay. You can honestly get good condition jerseys and a fuck load of variety. Hell you can get vintage starter jerseys for $25-$50.
Simple fact is…as long as people keep buying them then nothing will change. Go to any game and there are 30k morons all wearing them…got you all by the balls and they know it.
Here’s a good read
Wow, I thought my issues with fanatics was a personal thing. Now that I think of it, my custom jersey from a tailor I ordered when stationed in Korea has held up about 100 washes, when the team store crap makes it like 20 at most.
I bought a Herbert jersey that took 2 months to arrive, after the first wash the yellow in the heat pressed numbers bled into the white ruining it.
They offered me a 20% refund.
Lmao such a great article. The best part is the author saying “check his early life on wikipedia” without saying it explicitly.
Um, I read the entire article, and at no point does it say to check Rubin’s early life on Wikipedia. Where did you get that from?
without saying it explicitly
Excellent read. All the stuff I’ve ordered from the chargers shop is trash. Except the couple of Nike tees I’ve gotten for my kids.
Watch out homie u/nfl been lurking alot more in this sub lately
I blocked that loser.
Watch out? I HOPE that mf come in here to see the shit we’re talking
dude’s too busy jacking off to hentai to bother lurking in other people’s posts
A crazier thing is the NHL not making adidas jerseys available to the public
What? I’m currently wearing an Adidas NHL jersey.
Damn that’s a good sale, almost bought a Kraken jersey…
People absolutely buy them. I think a lot of it comes from gift giving and people buying them when they’re at the game. If your spending close to $1k on tickets, food, lodging, travel whatever to go see your team play, $170 for a cool keep sake you get to keep forever isn’t that much.
I agree its expensive but I still have every jersey I’ve ever bought or been given. I just gave a Terrell Davis jersey I got as a kid to my niece who is just getting into football.
Plus ebay exists. You can find tons of high quality jerseys for older players for under $50 and many for under $25. I’d rather do that than DH Gate, personally.
Never mind that. The costs to actually go to a game are getting out of reach these days.
If you care about quality at all I think and don’t mind the players being a litter older, ebay is really your best friend. You can find high quality, stitched jerseys often for under $50.
Honestly for $170 you are getting a knock off quality jersey. The elites are cool but are about double the price.
That being said, I think a lot of people buy these when they attend games and want something to take home and keep forever. Personally, I would not buy a new standard jersey from the NFL because of the chasm between quality and price.
I also don’t fuck with DH Gate because it confuses me and don’t know how to tell who produces decent knock offs.
I’ve ordered off DH gate a few times. All the jerseys I’ve gotten you wouldn’t know are fake unless you were told. Their shipping is awful though. Takes like a month a half from purchasing until you actually receive it
I compared my DH gate and real jerseys and you couldn’t tell the difference unless you really looked.
And anyone who gatekeeps another fan by walking up with a magnifying glass and demanding to know if it’s authentic or not is a chode. Clothes are clothes, nobody should care what someone else is wearing.
I got a brewers jersey that was pretty poor quality and haven’t bought from there since.
On the flip side, I’ve had a couple dh gate basketball jersey back in the day that were clearly fake with weird font or letter spacing
DH is the way to go now.
It’s because it comes from China and they have to use an odd postage system to get it past customs.
I buy all of my jerseys for myself and my son on eBay. I don’t get much any more for myself (I have my slate of old player jerseys), but my son likes to get jerseys of different teams so I just grab cool older players for like $15 on eBay. I could never pay $100 for a jersey he might be able to wear for a year and a half that I know is low quality.
/r/jerseyreps
Private but just message the mods. Thanks for the rec.
Chinese site you can definitely tell. Had the name around my waste.
I just buy a nice plain black shirt or hoodie with no branding or design on it. Super comfortable. Still rocking my teams colors. No fear of whoever is on my jersey to get traded or go crazy. It’s a great catch all.
I haven’t bought a jersey in like 20 years.
Hey, if I was a Raider fan I wouldn’t wanna rock the logo either after the last 20 years.
Let’s be serious here though. What have the Chargers really done like … ever?
You’re talking about the 10 time offseason champs here, pal.
Ha! I’ll give you that 😅
From the top rope!
FYI, As an Aussie; The Raiders logo is ‘stylish’ in stores around the country. You see people wearing Raiders apparel and you just know they have no idea what code it is or who any players are.
Honestly I feel like that about almost every person I see wearing US sports gear here as it’s almost all universally Raiders hats or Lebron jerseys.
Fanatics are exploited.
I have an adidas NHL jersey that cost $300 CAD and the quality is amazing, a fanatics one that cost $175 and a Chinese one that cost $40 and the Chinese one is better quality than fanatics, there’s a few minor flaws but at least one of the numbers wasn’t peeling off… it’s fuckin embarrassing
I’m fully convinced the Fanatics shit is made in the same factory as the knockoffs at this point.
It is
Knock off gear, ironically, is premium quality shit
Where does one uhhh find this knock off shit? DM?
Got a knock off RGIII Washington jersey when he was a rookie, and a knock off Reggie Bush gold Saints jersey. Not exaggerating, they’re the nicest NFL jerseys I have. Really nicely made
I was shocked at the quality of the official stuff when I went to SoFi a few weeks ago.
For $120 I could roll the dice on 4 knockoffs and probably end up with 2 that look absolutely fine, one that’s iffy and one we don’t talk about, but I’d still come out ahead