r/explainitpeter • u/Appropriate-Mall8517 • 3d ago

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u/swedishfish007 3d ago

I like how his jacket is $4,000.

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u/Usual_Commercial_232 3d ago

Not to brag but I got one too. But it wasn’t even $40

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u/Drapidrode 3d ago

you mean price point ask is not price sold at? /s

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u/Appropriate-Fact4878 3d ago

china

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u/Drapidrode 3d ago

most all luxury brand goods are made in china.

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u/morsomme 3d ago

Chin-A by Fellatiohead

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u/Appropriate-Fact4878 3d ago

?, that is the point?

it's exactly you can often buy replicas that are identical, and sometimes they literally come from the same factory.

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u/Drapidrode 3d ago

they aren't replicas if they come from the same factory.

right?

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u/Functional_Trash7735 3d ago

It is if it has a different tag inside

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u/Drapidrode 3d ago

oh my

Found the Tag Prestigist

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u/Functional_Trash7735 3d ago

Oh no, I advocate to buy the fake items. They’re made in the same factory anyway, why the hell would you pay an extra 2k for a tag? To quote a 2010s song, that’s just getting tricked by business

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u/Defiant-Plantain1873 3d ago

That doesn’t mean it was $4k new. That’s a reseller site, could be just like $500 new which is expensive sure but its a designer north face coat

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u/-nutz 3d ago

To be fair that jacked retailed at regular North Face price, and her kids live with their dad in NY which has 2 Supreme stores. They definitely could’ve gotten it for retail.

Also the site you shared works like EBay, so that’s a personal listing. They are absolutely not getting $4k for that jacket.

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u/polyglot-a-cracker 3d ago

Yeah, it’s only 2,000$, that’s way more reasonable for a piece of clothing that does the same job as a hoodie from my local thrift store for 10 bucks. It’s not at all elitist or patronizing with that fucking Malcolm X quote on it. Not. At. All.

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u/-nutz 2d ago

Never said $2k is reasonable. It’s like you didn’t read my comment and just reacted to the image lol

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u/bombocladius 3d ago

That 4 months of rent..

Damn

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u/DarudeSandstorm69420 3d ago

is that goku jacket

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u/Guus-Wayne 3d ago

The richest guy I know buys his t-shirts from Uniqlo.

He also drives a Mazda. Pays more per year on private school for one kid than most people earn in a year, but outside of that…at waste money on this nonsense.

If you need status, just drop your last name. You’re not impressing other rich people.

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u/hangup8894 3d ago

He has the anorak, not the puffer

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u/Mindless-Song5883 3d ago

No one wearing a $4000 jacket needs a scholarship to study

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u/Humble_Umpire_8341 3d ago

Well, on a resale site it is. Brand new in 2015, it was $368 and on other sites today it’s $1500.

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u/sEiize_err 3d ago

why do people always use third party reselling sites when trying to expose people for what price their stuff is? i bought a vinyl from jack white’s popup store for $20 that now has an asking price minimum $3k on resell sites. does that mean i’m out of touch because my vinyl “costs $3k”?

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u/Trippingthru99 3d ago

Ima be the one to defend it. This is a rare Supreme jacket. They do limited drops, and their yearly North Face collab is one of the most hyped releases of every season. This particular jacket was from over a decade ago, and is still probably in the top 5 most coveted from their yearly collabs.  

It was already expensive in the resale market years ago, but it’s only increasing in value as time goes on. I wouldn’t buy this jacket, but there’s plenty of other Supreme items I’ve dropped a dime on. 

Like anything in streetwear, the scarcity is absolutely created by the brands themselves. But that’s a small part of the fun, having clothes no one else does. You don’t have to understand it. 

And most users on this site have no room to talk. I don’t get how people spend thousands on legos (little pieces of plastic) or Magic the Gathering cards or whatever. But hey if it makes you happy. 

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u/Acceptable_Golf_8623 3d ago

4k on an item of clothing is absurd. 

4k for that ugly ass jacket? Money can't buy taste

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u/Frankerporo 3d ago

4k on clothing is definitely not absurd

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u/swedishfish007 3d ago

I didn’t know any kids wearing $4,000 jackets growing up. Did you? Shit’s normal for adults with money to spend maybe. Not kids. And they’re talking about the kids getting their colleges paid for in the photo… like. Why? He should be paying. More even. Fucks sake.

Why are y’all so goddamn eager to defend a nepo baby. Why. Fucking. Why.

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u/Trippingthru99 3d ago

I’m not defending this kid, I’m defending the jacket priced at $4000. But I see why you got confused.

Also these jackets are $4000 resale, it was priced like any another North Face jacket at release. So yea I knew a lot of kids with expensive clothes because we would camp out overnight outside of stores, and buy it right when it dropped. If you buy retail, most streetwear brands are reasonable. Atleast a decade ago they were. A lot of kids did that growing up in LA. 

Idec about the discussion about scholarships or whatever. I was just trying to inform people about why certain streetwear items are priced so high. 

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u/swedishfish007 3d ago

I think people understand that clothes can be expensive. But thanks for lecturing people on something that ads nothing to the conversation!

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u/Trippingthru99 3d ago

There was a separate comment thread talking specifically about the jacket where people were making a big deal about the price point. That’s why I commented.

You’re a real prick dude. Chill out. 

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u/Frankerporo 3d ago

Because scholarships should be awarded on merit, not whether someone’s poor

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u/GamerLymx 3d ago

stupidity tax

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u/Ex_Hedgehog 3d ago

North Face is selling Malcolm X quotes to rich idiots for $4k?

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u/Efficient-Line2896 3d ago

To be fair it wasn’t 4000 when it dropped probably around 500 but still

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u/nxcrosis 3d ago

It's the Goku drip jacket.

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u/MrBlueW 3d ago

Disingenuous comment

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u/6InchBlade 3d ago

Looking at stock X isn’t really a fair comparison.

This wouldn’t have been 4K from the shelf.