What random brands are on it?
It has the team name and the Title Sponsor.
which is pretty common for jerseys and kits.
United's base home kit starts at $88.00
And you got AON plastered across your chest.
http://store.manutd.com/stores/manutd/products/kit_selector.aspx?selectorid=518
Chelsea's got a big Samsung and starts at $90 on sale.
http://www.chelseamegastoreusa.com/departments-home-kit.html
Even team liquid just has their title sponsor on it for shirts they sell.
http://www.teamliquid.net/store/us/teamliquid/tshirts/teamliquid-team-shirt
I mean if you're gonna talk about sponsors everywhere:
EG's tshirt has all their sponsors on it
http://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/men/evil-geniuses-team-jersey/20637/
Is $65.00 for a polo a little bit on the expensive side? yeah probably. Problem is ofcourse the VAT and Duty rates for importing these shirts into the US and EU.
USA Duty for 100% cotton shirt is prob around 19.7% + MPF & HMF (if shipped by ocean).
Dunno where TL's warehouse is located, but if its the netherlands its 12% import duty & 21% VAT charge.
Plus customs fees and shipping, i can see why the shirt's gonna be $65.
Especially if the order was only the small amount of 750 shirts.
Talking of bad businesses, oh hello football...
But yeah I have the TL team shirt and its nice and they clearly put alot of work into it into making it a nice shirt. That said tbf the football shirts (from what I understand) are made from material that is designed to help your skin breath and is made from fairly exotic materials and has some RnD costs into it too, not to mention the fact that they are usually made by Nike, Adidas etc...
The T1 shirt how ever, is just a red polo shirt from an un-named brand, from what I understand a deal couldn't be worked out with Nike to produce them (T1's clothing sponsor)... at which point they should just have been made in China for a low price and sold at a low price. As it is (again from what I understand) they are made in Korea and shipped (at great expense) to TL who then sell them on.
I'm all for supporting teams, it's why I have so much TL stuff but you can't justify and support foolish and bad business practices... like if they couldn't get the proper shirts made, why bother at all, why not just instead print a standard red tee with the T1 logo on the arm or something and have a quote from parting along with a silly picture of one of his ceremonies next to it?
have you seen their store page now?
They have Medium shirts left, all other sizes are sold out (S,L,XL,XXL).
So i think its pretty good business for them.
Im pretty sure the deal as to why it wasn't officially through Nike officially has to do with the fact Nike wouldn't have control over selling of the jersey.
TL is in no means authorized Nike dealer, so it'll be difficult for Nike to allow this.
Not to mention a 750 qty purchase order isn't big enough for Nike when they deal in thousands+ purchase orders.
The shirts from what is said are manufactured in the same 3rd party warehouse that nike's official stuff comes out of.
Its just doesn't "pass" nike's QC nor allowed to use their patented technology in cloth and logo.
That's why for the plant themselves they're fine with a limited small press of the shirt.
I see it more of a service to get people team apparel instead of nothing at all.
I think TL prob is either breaking even or maybe loses $$ after all the expenses are tallied up.
They make more selling their own shirt for $25.00 than they do selling the SKT1 jersey.
I'm sure a portion of the sale has to go back to SKT1
And its not just Football(soccer) jerseys that are that expensive
pretty much any NBA/MLB/NFL/NHL replica jersey are about $70 USD.
Authentic jerseys (on field/court/ice) start at $150 and up.
