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@JC said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@JC said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@nzzp said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
OK on the bakc of this: most expensive item of apparel ever purchased?
Oh don't ask that. Do you mean the actual cost or the price I tell Mrs JC?
i just asked Mrs Mariner, and it's really not much. She buys it all on sale. Less than $400
Suits. I had a suit habit (possibly an addiction). Gieves and Hawkes, at least one per year, all of them north of 5 grand (Sterling). One Ozwald Boateng one that was a work of art. Now they're all in storage as I have absolutely no reason to wear them. So I've started on Armani jeans. Always J26 cut because I know they fit well. Different colours and fabrics. Maybe 15 pairs? I need an intervention probably.
I have a jacket problem. Not suit jackets but the likes of trench coats, leather jackets, moto jackets etc. I'll spend up to $1,000 on a jacket (Boss, Scotch & Soda, Belstaff, Allsaints etc), but the worst of it is I'll only wear it a handful of teams in a season and then flick it off on trademe for a fraction of what I paid for it. Only very occasionally will I regret moving a jacket on and only because I realise in hindsight it was quite unique.
Back when tax and duty were never included in the price of an item coming from overseas and they were typically added to products coming into NZ, I got stung a couple of times, inflating the price beyond what I'd expected. I bought a Scotch & Soda 'gentlemans' coat' from a joint called Probus NYC. It was on sale so down to something like USD250. The conversion wasn't ridiculous but I ended up paying something like another NZD250 inflating the total price to around $700 for what was supposed to have been a good deal. Same thing happened with a Belstaff jacket but it ended up being around $900 and wasn't even a leather one!
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@JC said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@JC said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@nzzp said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
OK on the bakc of this: most expensive item of apparel ever purchased?
Oh don't ask that. Do you mean the actual cost or the price I tell Mrs JC?
i just asked Mrs Mariner, and it's really not much. She buys it all on sale. Less than $400
Suits. I had a suit habit (possibly an addiction). Gieves and Hawkes, at least one per year, all of them north of 5 grand (Sterling). One Ozwald Boateng one that was a work of art. Now they're all in storage as I have absolutely no reason to wear them. So I've started on Armani jeans. Always J26 cut because I know they fit well. Different colours and fabrics. Maybe 15 pairs? I need an intervention probably.
I have a jacket problem. Not suit jackets but the likes of trench coats, leather jackets, moto jackets etc. I'll spend up to $1,000 on a jacket (Boss, Scotch & Soda, Belstaff, Allsaints etc), but the worst of it is I'll only wear it a handful of teams in a season and then flick it off on trademe for a fraction of what I paid for it. Only very occasionally will I regret moving a jacket on and only because I realise in hindsight it was quite unique.
Back when tax and duty were never included in the price of an item coming from overseas and they were typically added to products coming into NZ, I got stung a couple of times, inflating the price beyond what I'd expected. I bought a Scotch & Soda 'gentlemans' coat' from a joint called Probus NYC. It was on sale so down to something like USD250. The conversion wasn't ridiculous but I ended up paying something like another NZD250 inflating the total price to around $700 for what was supposed to have been a good deal. Same thing happened with a Belstaff jacket but it ended up being around $900 and wasn't even a leather one!
check out fucking moneybags over here!
Mine used to be sneakers, but i have resisted for ages. I am down to half a dozen pairs of Onitsuka Tigers, and just a couple of others.
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
Same thing happened with a Belstaff jacket but it ended up being around $900 and wasn't even a leather one!
Waxed cotton jackets are their thing...
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@JC said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@JC said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@nzzp said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
OK on the bakc of this: most expensive item of apparel ever purchased?
Oh don't ask that. Do you mean the actual cost or the price I tell Mrs JC?
i just asked Mrs Mariner, and it's really not much. She buys it all on sale. Less than $400
Suits. I had a suit habit (possibly an addiction). Gieves and Hawkes, at least one per year, all of them north of 5 grand (Sterling). One Ozwald Boateng one that was a work of art. Now they're all in storage as I have absolutely no reason to wear them. So I've started on Armani jeans. Always J26 cut because I know they fit well. Different colours and fabrics. Maybe 15 pairs? I need an intervention probably.
I have a jacket problem. Not suit jackets but the likes of trench coats, leather jackets, moto jackets etc. I'll spend up to $1,000 on a jacket (Boss, Scotch & Soda, Belstaff, Allsaints etc), but the worst of it is I'll only wear it a handful of teams in a season and then flick it off on trademe for a fraction of what I paid for it. Only very occasionally will I regret moving a jacket on and only because I realise in hindsight it was quite unique.
Back when tax and duty were never included in the price of an item coming from overseas and they were typically added to products coming into NZ, I got stung a couple of times, inflating the price beyond what I'd expected. I bought a Scotch & Soda 'gentlemans' coat' from a joint called Probus NYC. It was on sale so down to something like USD250. The conversion wasn't ridiculous but I ended up paying something like another NZD250 inflating the total price to around $700 for what was supposed to have been a good deal. Same thing happened with a Belstaff jacket but it ended up being around $900 and wasn't even a leather one!
That's the risk of offshore clothes shopping. And if you use a freight forwarder like NZ post it becomes complicated if the item isn't right and you want costs to and it back
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@antipodean Either way. This was just a lightly padded moto jacket. Not leather OR waxed.
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@mariner4life sports shoes are so much cheaper from the US
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan Yeah and I knew that, to a degree. I recall still being surprised by the size of the tax/duty component though!
If you exceed the 400NZD barrier (old rules) and they flag you, not only do you pay GST there is a hefty processing fee as well. I've been caught before and lost any monetary advantage I gained from buying it offshore
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@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life sports shoes are so much cheaper from the US
i bought my favourite pair in NY for what i thought was fuck all. Jesus that's coming up 4 years ago!!
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life sports shoes are so much cheaper from the US
i bought my favourite pair in NY for what i thought was fuck all. Jesus that's coming up 4 years ago!!
I have boxed up mizuno runners and a couple of pairs of tiger ultimate 82s boxed and hidden away. I'm a sucker for the 82s
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life sports shoes are so much cheaper from the US
i bought my favourite pair in NY for what i thought was fuck all. Jesus that's coming up 4 years ago!!
Sneakers were so cheap in NYC! I bought a couple of pairs in 2017, firstly from this mad, mad Nike store and then when my wife and I got a ridiculous deal on multiple pairs at another retailer; I think we ended up paying NZD50 each for three pairs of adidas sneakers and next to nothing for kids' shoes.
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@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan Yeah and I knew that, to a degree. I recall still being surprised by the size of the tax/duty component though!
If you exceed the 400NZD barrier (old rules) and they flag you, not only do you pay GST there is a hefty processing fee as well. I've been caught before and lost any monetary advantage I gained from buying it offshore
Yeah I think maybe it was the processing fee that made it excessive. One of the times I collected an item there was almost an interrogation from some old fart customs guy too.
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan Yeah and I knew that, to a degree. I recall still being surprised by the size of the tax/duty component though!
If you exceed the 400NZD barrier (old rules) and they flag you, not only do you pay GST there is a hefty processing fee as well. I've been caught before and lost any monetary advantage I gained from buying it offshore
Yeah I think maybe it was the processing fee that made it excessive. One of the times I collected an item there was almost an interrogation from some old fart customs guy too.
Then to cap it off the farking thing doesn't fit and you end up selling to some lucky bastard on trade me
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My “habit” is with jackets as well. Primarily denim jackets of a certain style. They have to be a pre 80s (no side pocket) style and with a classic (not wool) collar. Have about 10.
Funnily enough although I have a range from Selvidge Indigo to off white in denims and cord I have never found a faded denim that I have liked enough to buy and they are by far the easiest to find.
I do sometimes tempt myself looking at the “classic” special re-runs you can get online from Levi such as a US$1200 60s suede trucker -
@Crucial said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I do sometimes tempt myself looking at the “classic” special re-runs you can get online from Levi such as a US$1200 60s suede trucker
cashed up hipsters
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Lee Jeans and work trousers are really cheap on amazon. Once you work out sizing. The new rules have reduced that slightly but it's still good. I used to order sports fan stuff from fanatics but the GST rules have made this less attractive unless the gear is on sale
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan I've rarely had that problem and more often than not returns are easy anyway.
In the case of amazon it's fine if you send the goods directly home. But if you ship to a forwarder then home (because they don't ship to NZ) they will only spring for the cost to send back from the forwarder. In my experience
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@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
Most of my biggest mistakes were from leather or suede jackets. I think the idea of them is better than the reality
Yeah I burned through three in quick succession last year before scoring a Boss Orange leather / fabric hybrid on sale for $700. It's so much more versatile than an out-and-out leather jacket.