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I'll bite.
Which retailers use uk manufactures and are lower price?
How do you know that £8 per hour in China is low wage?
Do you understand brand value?
Do you understand fashion industry?
amey-
Do you understand brand value?
Amey, pls. You mean premium pricing.
TBF I think Rapha stuff is pretty good value despite their pricing model, or rather they at least peg good durability to the price. This only applies when you buy the stuff that actually works. The trick to avoid the stuff that doesn't.
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Lusso are cheaper than rapha and are made in UK. Also, whilst maybe not as stylish, Lusso kit is awesome. Well made, hard-wearing and functions exactly as it ought.
I wore a pair of their Aero50 bib shorts for Dunwich dynamo and my arse survived. They were £35.
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this isnt about "biting" you stated my statement was utterly wrong, so all i asked you to do tell me why?
£8 hour is low for "western world" economies, and given we cannot determine what actual wage they are getting, and the fact that the minimum wage is £6 on average in china as of 2016 - its not a great difference.I dont give a crap about fashion industry or brand value, why should i?
I am a purchaser, and i have been, and may be in the future, a potential purchaser of Rapha goods - it is up to me to consider how and where they are made, the quality of the product based on not ONLY its cost but on the statements made by Rapha themselves, and, how i and others have experienced that product and been dealt with by Rapha -
therefore i am entitled to express my opinion if i think that the cost 'v' purchase price is unwarranted and cause for question.
Howard
TurtleRecall
anthonyj
I'm happy to be proved wrong, so please PROVE my statement to be incorrect - in my humble opinion it would be naive to think Rapha use Chinese labour / manufacturing solely because they have to deal with high volumes / require a high skilled workforce , if it was that simple then how can other clothing retailers use solely UK manufacturers priced below Rapha Products , indeed i would see that as an insult to the talented UK workforce we do have and investing in said workforce...