Product that comes back 'not perfect' would not be taken back, if a customer has used something or altered it from it's sale state then a return would not be accepted.
The cost price of a jersey may not be as low as you believe, and once you factor in the operating costs of the Company and all other associated costs of selling something then £40 may not make them profit. The point of a sample sale is to sell product not fit to be sold through normal channels, ie; sample product, faulty/damaged product. It's not a liquidation.
There is also nobody at Rapha who would say that their 'business plan' is to accept returns and place that product in the sample sale. It's ridiculous.
My family's business is part of the supply chain that works with companies supplying wholesale materials to various clothing manufacturers in the world including 'small' companies like Rapha. I am not going to get in an argument with you as you Senor Bear as you obviously know more about the retail clothing industry than me.
However, you would not ask for a galling discount in an LBS in real life, and i'm sure you would not take the piss out of me to my face either. No - you would only do that hiding behind a computer on an internet because you are a coward.
My family's business is part of the supply chain that works with companies supplying wholesale materials to various clothing manufacturers in the world including 'small' companies like Rapha. I am not going to get in an argument with you as you Senor Bear as you obviously know more about the retail clothing industry than me.
However, you would not ask for a galling discount in an LBS in real life, and i'm sure you would not take the piss out of me to my face either. No - you would only do that hiding behind a computer on an internet because you are a coward.