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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I really wanted a new Seahawks throwback this year. Went to my first game and checked them out in the pro shop. They looked so cheap for the price they were asking, fuck that. I really wanted a Witherspoon one, but ill have to look at a knockoff instead.
I got a couple of dh gate ones in the mail the other day, and I’m happy with em.
Chinese site you can definitely tell. Had the name around my waste.
Never mind that. The costs to actually go to a game are getting out of reach these days.
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
Fanatics are exploited.
it’s because it has a holographic emblem dawg, a duh. /s
in all seriousness, $170 for a jersey, come the fuck on. Even on thanksgiving, I had to go through 30 minutes, just to find the fucking game I wanted to watch (49ers vs. Seahawks).
and then after all that, even with an NFL+ subscription, I basically missed the entire 1st quarter because some advertiser didn’t know how to target a demographic
Nfl shop? They have the vapor ones with stitching and they are always like 25-30% off.
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.
From the top rope!
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 😅
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.
yep and hoodies and t-shirts come in other colors, like blue, red, green, teal, yellow, burgundy, purple, etc
Honestly, I think it’s getting back to the days of the late 2000s and early 2010s when people were buying a ton of knock off jerseys. What is interesting is what does the future of Fanatics look like? Their quality is so poor, that a lot of fans, from across the major sports leagues, are just looking for alternate options in order to avoid buying from them. How long until their profits start plummeting and the leagues boot them out the door? What Fanatics is doing is a recipe for disaster. As a card collector, what they’ve done to Topps is a travesty. Quality control essentially doesn’t exist anymore, it’s overproduced, it’s overpriced, and the release dates are all over, where 2022 stuff was still coming out this summer.
I’m just done with it. Sold my collection of vapors on ebay last week.
Do it. Just do it with a visa gift card not your real CC. Funny thing is your quality from a knock off is going to be much better than the fan shop now. More people need to buy the knock offs to get improved quality from the real stuff.
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 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.
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
It’s because it comes from China and they have to use an odd postage system to get it past customs.
I compared my DH gate and real jerseys and you couldn’t tell the difference unless you really looked.
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
I got a brewers jersey that was pretty poor quality and haven’t bought from there since.
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.
DH is the way to go now.
Meanwhile the jersey you would have purchased from the NFL team shop is no longer made by Nike. It is made in a Chinese factory by Fanatics and is little better than a polyester shirt with screen pressed numbers. No stitches to be found at all.
Fanatics is the worst thing to ever happen to sports merchandise.
The fanatics-made jerseys are nowhere near $170.
Their hats are all garbage too. I’ve bought several for some reason and every single one has ended up in the donation box shortly after. The fit and look are just awful compared to every other brand I’ve ever bought.
Fuck fanatics and their cheap, overpriced bullshit
I just wait til they have a big sale, which is usually a few months after the season is over
The fabrics used in their Tshirts is so bad, but like astonishingly bad. You can pick the cheapest, simplest cotton Tshirt anywhere, and the quality would be better. I bought a tshirt, supposedly dry fit, and after two washes, the neck is looser than my morals, and equally useless.
Yep. The Patriots ProShop online website used to be run directly by the team, and the sales and merchandise selection was fantastic. Unfortunately they sold the online store to Fanatics a couple of years ago as they also own 99% of every other of the four league’s teams stores.
Thankfully I’m close enough to the stadium so I can actually just go the physical store still operated by the team if I wanted merch, but it still sucks having to go through Fanatics if I want something online.
Even the pro shop sucks now
What I don’t understand is how people continue to purchase their products (including a lot of y’all on here).
Most people don’t know any better
maybe a little bit off topic but you can do a quick search of brands before buying them here:
(fanatics is not listed)
Very off-topic.
Sports fans want to support their team(s). Unfortunately, Fanatics has gotten SO big that it’s nearly impossible to support your team without indirectly supporting Fanatics.
If you want new licensed gear, there’s not too many other options, esp if you’re at a team store
It may not be much better in a big picture view, but man Mitchell and Ness throwbacks are miles ahead of the new garbage.
They are but a lot of people want current players. They’re also often over $300 lol
That’ll change too. Fanatics bought Mitchell and Ness
They were not anymore Mitchell and ness nhl jerseys are a abomination
A friend bought me a 39thirty cap from Fanatics and the thing was so poorly made it was hilarious. Loose string sticking out everywhere, the bill lacked stiffness/seemed off-center and the best was the entire rear half of the cap was some stretchy material (years ago the 39thirty only had stretch in the band of the cap) so it formed a cone shape on the top like this. I made sure they got their money back; fuck Fanatics.
The quality of jerseys now is just atrocious too. A couple years ago I bought a Jonathan Allen jersey for over $100. After putting it through the washing machine (made sure air dry it to avoid damage) multiple giant spots on the numbers chipped off. Like I don’t need a jersey to be in mint condition, but I’d prefer the numbers to not disappear if I dare to wash the beer stains off of it after a game.
So they’re made in a Chinese factory and just stick a made in Honduras or Guatemala label for funsies?
I collect baseball cards and hoo boy lemme tell you, our sub ain’t happy about Fanatics acquiring Topps last year
Our sub? Bruv u ain’t part of the sub mate, for real don’t be acting like u been there. I’ll roll ya like a proper fish n chips if you keep playing mate
Whatever happened with fanatics taking over/ ripping off the panini deal?
They’re coming for basketball cards too. I really don’t get how Fanatics is allowed to run what is essentially a monopoly on the sports merchandise and collectibles market
And Football, Bryce and Stroud signed with Topps, and get full licensing in a couple of years. They’re getting a full monopoly it’s ridiculous.
Although Panini also deserved a kick in the ass for how garbage they’ve been all around lately when it comes to releasing sets on time, getting out redemptions etc.
For sure, Panini’s quality went to shit in recent years. They just shouldn’t have exclusive licensing for sports cards. Removes any competition and motivation to provide a quality product and innovate
The answer is simple, because it generates absolutely insane amounts of money for Fanatics, the leagues, and the owners.
I used to work for a company that worked with Fanatics. Their profit margins as you can imagine are absolutely ridiculous. That jersey being sold for $100 costs them at most $10 to manufacture and ship over from a Chinese factory.
I know you said “at most” , but $10 is being generous with the scale these factories operate at, and the cost of materials / labour in China. I bet you it probably costs them closer to $4-5 per jersey
Probably the same Chinese factories that make the knockoffs. They have all the specs already.
The worst part is they’re also doing it for after market signings as well. For example, I make custom cards and certain athletes are “fanatics exclusive” meaning they’ll only sign fanatics-licensed merchandise.
I will never be able to get my custom cards signed by Joe Montana or Jerry Rice, no matter how much I pay.
Luckily idrc about either of those two but guys like Barry Sanders and Lawrence Taylor would be great disappointments to me (luckily AFAIK neither has moved to the dark side yet)
I think it makes old cards more valuable
A friend bought me a 39thirty cap from Fanatics and that thing was so poorly made it was hilarious. String sticking out, the bill seemed off-center and the best was the material they used in the entire back half of the hat was made with this stretchy material (years ago the 39thirty only had stretch in the band of the hat) so it formed a cone shape on the top like this. I made sure they got their money back; fuck Fanatics.
Fanatics is fucking awful. I can pay good money for a shirt if I know that the quality is great. Fanatics is not that.
Chinese knockoffs it is
Hey at least Chinese knockoffs are good quality
Nike’s shit has been made overseas for decades
Michael Rubin is a worm.
Is there a place for people to share pics of their China jerseys? Checked out the site, but hard to tell if they are selling something at least decent.
