If your luxury brand has a giant logo you are purchasing regular goods at an increased price.
Actual luxury brand items are typically not heavily branded.
I’ve got some old polo shirts from my dad’s closet that I still wear. The material is sturdy, easy to clean, and doesn’t noticeably fade over time. Tiny little logo on the breast, but it’s this shade of blue I swear you can’t find in stores anymore. Looks good, fits good, feels good on my skin. This shirt is easily 20 years old.
I got to the store to buy a new polo and the logo is practically across my chest. The stitching is already fraying. Fades after the first wash. Paper thin and easily torn. It’ll be in the rag pile inside two years.
They really don’t make’m like they used to
You can find nice polo. But it’s $100+ shirts not sold at the outlets.
You can find good shirts, but polo has gone to shit. And a bunch of the major outlets have gone to shit. You can’t find decent clothes at Dillards or even Macys anymore. Its all been Walmart-ified.
And even the boutique brands very rapidly decay, once they cement their reputations as “high quality”.
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“The only dealer that tells you to FUCK OFF!”
They do the same with stickers here, spelling out entire phrases on the trunk, not just the frame license plate
You can tell them to remove it when they sell it to you but often times they try to get out of doing that, lack of tools or some bs.
Long story short, it’s why I own a plastic razor scraper
Unstickered about 2 dozen cars so far for people I know, ain’t much, but better than driving around with ads on your car.
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The last car I purchased had the dealership plates + stickers on the trunk and window, I told the dealership that I love the car and everything about it but I’m not willing to purchase a vehicle at that price while it has advertisements on it unless the cost gets lowered by about 3 Grand. They fought it a little , but when they realized that I was firm on it they ultimately decided that they would remove the logo on it to make the sale.
That being said never let them con you into saying well you can remove the logo yourself, cuz if you end up screwing up taking those logos off(some of those stickers are REALLY on there) you’re out the cost where if they screw up taking that logo off you can always walk away or they can fix their screw up
Just make sure that you are indeed willing to walk away if it’s not something they budge on, cuz it is definitely possible that they will just say well then don’t buy the vehicle
Just tell them to remove it. It’s vandalism technically.
Explain to me, how you vandalize property you own.
The car dealers are the ones putting them on the cars not the owners.
I would’ve thought they install licence plate frames when they put the cars out on display, though I do find the idea of dealerships running around randomly mounting them to other people’s cars amusing.
That is, how it works. At worst they put a plate frame on just before they sell it to you because you didn’t bring one to the dealership.
Yes. They own the vehicle.
You are free to do whatever you want when you finish the transaction. Which typically is actually a few days later after the bank clears it. Or you can ask for them to take it off. Dealerships just let it go early because they rarely run into issues closing the finance. And NOBODY ever brings their own plate holder. But yeah, “vandalism” 🙄
Imagine buying a painting and they srpay paint a red X on it before handing it to you.
Again, I wouldn’t buy it. Not that hard. See how that affected me?
But the reality is it’s more like they put an easy to remove sticker on the back that takes 1 minute to remove. Or I ask them to remove it which they always do.
The dealership frame ended up causing an annoying rattle on mine whenever the car hit a bump. Having it on there meant the license plate was less secure and it would shake in response to the slightest disturbance. Even closing a door would cause an audible rattle from the rear.
Needless to say I’ve also removed the frame from mine.
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Might be able to cushion it with some automotive exterior foam tape. Definitely an inexpensive solution.
take off the ugly license plate frame that advertises the dealership.
I was going to remove mine, but I live in Silicon Valley and it’s a broken frame from a failed startup (Beepi) I bought the car from, so I feel like it kinda adds some Silicon Valley character to the car. LOL
It’s also screwed on using one-way screws so I’ll have to figure out how to remove those.
I think in the UK legally you have to have the manufacturer of the registration plate on it to combat fraud / cloning. But it’s tiny text you can only see close up
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As it is, the convention that vehicles already sport their manufacturer’s branding plastered on both the front and back is already obnoxious.
Public roads cannot be traversed without seeing dozens, hundreds or thousands of instances of $CAR_BRAND.
I suppose that makes me a proponent of debranding, wherein company logos and emblems are removed.
This pisses me off so hard, I refuse to buy apparel that has anything more than a logo on it. I am giving you my money for your design, I’m not paying you to be a walking billboard I’m paying you to have clothing on my body. It’s becoming increasingly harder nowadays to buy clothing that doesn’t have a quarter of the item taken up by some sort of brand name on it it’s ugly as shit and annoying
I’ve recently had to forgo my favorite style because you can no longer find it without having it plastered with brand or logo, it’s just a simple pair of sweatpants with a racing stripe down the side it does not need a brand name that takes quarter of the leg
If you like nice shirts with no design or logo, Kohl’s has some really comfortable shirts in several colors and no logo at all. They’re some of my favorite shirts right now.
I also like Uniqlo for comfortable clothing with no logos on them.
I have like 2 dozen of their super soft tees. Pick 'em up for like $12 in a variety of colors. One of the only big department stores that has XLT as a size as well.
Dude at least pick a cool brand that has unique designs and art for each shirt like O’Neil, quicksilver, Roxy etc. Fuck I think even Hollister and clones had cite branded shirts.
Now it’s a red box that says Supreme. And apparently is lucrative because their website is closed? I’m too stoned for this shit
My favorite brand is Gildan, because they seem to have a monopoly on (metal) band shirts.
My second favorite is Volcom, because they work with local artists to make beautiful designs for their apparel.
VOLCOM!!! Thank you that’s the brand my mind was reaching for but couldn’t remember. Great designs, cool to learn they work with local artists!
Me in my fancy Kirkland Signature t-shirt:
An individual with refinement and culture
I work in a sportswear store and only buy things that are on sale so I get heavy discounts on Nike, Adidas, Puma, New Balance, etc.
These brands are pretty much ubiquitous anyway so I’m not particularly bothered about wearing their products. One thing is for sure though, I won’t go around telling everyone how great big corporation is.
Certainly can’t argue with the comic!
It’s is truly fucked up how corporations figured out how to sell their own ads.
Time to mention Bill Hicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
edit: wow, turning an image into a hyperlink is silly in Markdown
Ironic how that video is blocked in the US due to copyright.
The fact that it’s blocked under US copyright when the opening phrase is literally " if anyone here is in advertising or marketing kill yourself" speaks wonders about the state of our country. I would expect it to be something like inciting violence or inciting harm not fucking US copyright lol
The obvious difference is, someone, somewhere out there will see you wearing/using that luxury brand and think “ooo, fancy”, and thus will think you are more “refined” for it. Whether you agree with that or not, that’s the reality.
nobody is going to think you’re more refined for watching a YouTube ad.
Someone will think you’re more refined if you don’t watch a YouTube ad though, whether it’s through ad blocker or premium, that’s the comparison you should be making.
True, but I do get irrationally mad if someone else wants to show me something and there are several ads before it.
When I see people plastered with logos I just think they’re dumb and incapable of independent thought.
Be the ad you want to see in the world
You got me I pay to be an ad for a co-op i volunteer at
they pay me $13 an hour to be a walking Publix ad 😔
My mother once convinced me to accept a Fender T-shirt from her (I’m more of an Ibanez guy, but still better than Gibson), otherwise unless people pay me I won’t wear an “advertisement” T-shirt.
I don’t mind wearing shirts with brands on em, just not clothing brands. I love wearing tshirts with old company logos or weird stuff like froot loops or a vintage coca cola shirt.
I’ll second that, I’m a fan of shirts from local establishments. I have one of a record store I like (actually two, one each from two diff local record stores), a couple local restaurants that are legendary hole in the wall types, local minor league baseball team, etc. I’m not gonna wear like, supreme, but some stuff like that is ok imo.
I had to ask my mom to kindly not buy me Aeropostale, or other brands that are in your face and ugly like this. I don’t even like those brands. I have always been the jeans and band t shirt guy, or just a plain tee. I’m 40 by the way but moms never stop buying us shirts.
I’ve never owned a branded piece of clothing in my life aside from a Roots sweatshirt when I was a teenager, when that was a Big Deal, and I don’t understand why an adult would.
To me, the weirdest / funniest example of this is “Superdry”.
First of all, the name comes from alcoholic drinks without a residual sweetness. That is a ridiculous name to use for something that’s mostly made out of water. But, a lot of food-related words are odd. But, then you apply it to a clothing brand, where “dry” has a different and much more normal meaning. It sounds like it should be a brand of special wet-weather gear.
As for the Japanese-style characters on it, the British founders of the clothing brand collected a lot of random packaging from things in Tokyo, and then slapped mangled versions of it on American-style clothing. Of course, it never sold well in Japan because they actually knew what he random text actually meant. It’s like the famous “Engrish” text that you sometimes see people in Asia wearing.
So, people were wearing a premium to wear clothing that had very basic styling, featured huge company logos, and nonsense faux-Japanese characters.
There really needs to be a law against this brand taxing shit.
A brand is not an innovation, you shouldn’t get to jack the price just because you put your logo on what’s the same quality product as the competition is offering.
Just buy the same quality product without the markup? Price gouging only applies to essential items.
Or how about fuck their right to mark it up at all if there isn’t a measurable quality improvement to their product?
I’m allowed to resent other people getting ripped off as much as I would myself, and my own smart buying choices don’t erase the blatantly immoral bullshit that megacorps get up to with name tax pricing.
That’s the thing, it’s not a ripoff. People are using the markup because of the logo and the perceived value of the brand. Just dress how you want to and let others enjoy that style of clothing.
That’s not a style of clothing, that’s bootlicking because you feel called out for paying the gucci tax like a moron and want your choice validated.
If you have enough money to blow on a gucci shirt you can make that choice, this isn’t bottled water and canned food during a hurricane, it’s a luxury item intended to display wealth.
Dude just wants to single handedly destroy all band merch.
How about giving people the right to not buy stuff? Wait, they have that. That’s cool.
Imagine being this determined to bootlick for the owning class.
Mate, I am the owning class. And so are you. You just like to pretend you aren’t. That’s cool, I’m down with role play.
Mostly I’m down with freedom of choice though, and not telling everyone how to behave.
Which is why I’m cool with you trying to offend me.
Sure companies rip us off. But we have the power to not engage. I suggest using that power.
Like, right now.
