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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts
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From: ajtj999/2/2025 1:12:20 AM
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When I was young, one of the items I imported and sold was sunglasses.

A customer at a trade show back then tried telling me they needed them for something like $9.00/doz instead of the $10.80/doz I was charging them.

I took several pair of sunglasses, dropped them to the ground, and proceeded to smash them with my custom-made leather shoes.

I told him that was what I'd rather do with the sunglasses than sell at his asking price.

Dude never complained after that, and he paid my price.

Decades later, I toured a sunglass factory in Shenzhen, China that made product for all the major designer labels. I was not in the sunglasses business anymore then. The product for these designers came off the same line that was making the $4.00/doz stuff. The only difference was the brand molded onto the frames. That was about 25-years ago, so it doesn't hold today. However, it's not that much different now than it was then. That factory also made reading glasses for that price and supplying lots of dollar stores.

Designer labels are a big hustle. They always have been.
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