Silk sport coat?

[terly]

Jos. A. Bank is not a good brand,but I attracted by the price,so should I get this sportcoat,like the color so much.
just judge the material and price

 

[l0fielectronic]

notice that this item is on the same website as the last jacket you added an optimised backlink to isn't it?

Just wondered if you bought that one?

 

[dhermann1]

One thing I learned, much to my chagrin, is that the Jos A Bank internet stuff is NOT the same quality as what they sell at the stores.

 

[terly]

not in the same quality?

One thing I learned, much to my chagrin, is that the Jos A Bank internet stuff is NOT the same quality as what they sell at the stores.

 

[dhermann1]

I've bought a lot of stuff at their Madison Ave store in New York, but the one time I got something from their website I was disappointed. I returned it to the store and looked at the "identical" item carried there, and the internet version was decidedly inferior quality. This is actually a common thing. "Outlet" stores and web stores often don't have the same stuff.

 

[Tomasso]

Yeah, Brooks Brothers make stuff exclusively for their outlet stores that is a step down from what is carried in their regular stores. Though their website seems to carry the better stuff.

 

[apba1166]

Store and web are often different, as are many outlets. In fact, many carry disclaimers. On some sales, they even say "same as in stores" on others in fine print "store model may vary" etc. At Polo outlets there is fine print describing this. Some of the big retailers simply front for large wholesalers and distributors who do a pct. deal with the brick-and-mortar retailer, manage the site, and supply the product. Brands & Manufacturers have done this for years (decades now). Very few have vertical integration. Often it is the no-name manufacturer licensing a brand. Other times it is brand farming out the work to another outfit, design, import, or trade, who then farms it out to a no-name consolidator or manufacturer, 3,4, sometimes 6 middlemen. In any case, the brand or store or manufacturer have to stand behind it and if you know what you are looking at/getting vs. the brand/marketing/hype (90% consumers don't of course--and that's how the profit is made) you just return, which many of us have done many times, from watches to jeans to stereo equipment to silk sport coats.

 

[apba1166]

One more thing. Even (especially) the high-end luxury brands, who have opened all the branded stores in the malls so that the you can perceive that you are getting an "authentic" version, differ. The work is often sourced from multiple places (some like Bottega, are vertically integrated, but most are not). What's more, there have been recent cases uncovered of employees substituting knock-offs. An outfit may go to a manufacturer and exactly duplicate a leather item or clothing piece, exactly to spec, completely identical, exact quality, put the fake label on and an employee can substitute this very expensive knockoff for the astronomically expensive genuine one, you'll never know, and neither will their employer, the genuine one gets sold "out-of-store." There are actually businesses that do what's called "out-of-store" sales. Guess what? The seemingly amazing deal on some luxo item may actually be the real thing, rather than the counterfeit. Many times there is no way to tell, the only difference is the price--period--which is why counterfeiters have to be caught red-handed because the goods are--at the highest level of this, not the street hawker level--not just virtually, but really identical.