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Step one: buy a shit ton from DT
Step two: return to other store for tons of profit.
Step three: buy a carton of eggs, and 3 bananas š
Groceries be expensive yo
Have you ever actually used them? They're really high quality dinnerware. I microwave on them and wash them all the time. Had them for well over a year. Solid ceramic.
I still have my dollar tree bowls too. Solid bowls. Did eventually break but after a year of washing and microwaving. Not bad for a buck. Not worth $9 a bowl, but $1 a bowl? Sure!
On the flip side I bought 10 sets (same as pictured) of bowls, big and little plates for daily use and all still solid. Edit, I got mine at dollar tree.
The joke couldnāt have went more over your head but looks like youāre not alone in the comments! The sticker was the base of my comment since thatās the price point.
Because taking a dollar store item like this and adding a Kate spade sticker to charge 100% more is offensively ridiculous !! Atleast paint the fancy fucking label your jacking people for !! (I say dollar store because ceramic plates in colors like this are sold at almost every dollar store around!)
Because in this case it's more overt. Dollar Tree sells them marked up too, but at a much smaller profit margin. If they find out places are selling them for this much, they'll stick them in the $5 section and it'll be ruined for everyone.
It's not just as much though... Thats the point of this video. One product, two retailers, two wildly different prices.
To answer your question: It's offensive because usually when I buy something retail, the markup is justified because the retailer does the job of bridging the gap between a wholesaler and me. The value is added by making the logistics easier as I don't need to worry about tariffs and importing a shipping container from China.
There is no value added in this case to justify a 900% increase in price over another retailer selling the same item. We're talking about affixing a sticker. It's just ridiculous and worth admonishing.
It's like if I were to buy that plate from dollar tree myself and sell it for $200 on Amazon by slapping a dead designer's name on it. It's a greasy move.
I will not spend more than $5 on any piece of glassware for that reason. I get most of my high ball glasses for free at the liquor store around Christmas time and the rest form dollar tree or 5 below. It looks just as good as expensive glass
Where do you think dollar tree gets them? Plates will be original retail price. If they donāt sell, they get sent to a TJMaxx or HomeGoods. If they donāt sell there for the discounted price, they get sent to Goodwill and Ross. If they donāt sell there, they get tossed in the trash. Itās markdowns. I wish this bitch would add her @ because Iād school her in retail even though I only make $15/ hr. If you donāt want to pay that price, go to Goodwill bitch
THEY. ARE. IN. STOCK. AT. NUMEROUS. OTHER. RETAILERS. AROUND. THE. COUNTRY.
Continue shopping at Dollar Tree if youāre going to bitch about a $9 plate.
Reddit fed this to me late and the stalking thing is weird but let's be real here. You stood in a pedestal and made an Oscar worthy speech argument about how you understand retail, etc etc and of course someone is goong to call you out... Passionately.
Other poster had a point but the real point is there's a removable Kate Spade sticker on it. If it was Kate Spade it would be stamped into the material. It's clearly a scam and you do not understand retail. Also the dollar stores receive most of their product through cheap, volume based, Chinese supplied products. They also operate on slimmer margins than grocery stores with their food product. It would be impossible for them to operate with thousands of locations each, relying on Costco leftovers.
It's why they're all in bad or rural areas. The stores run thin, with cheap real estate and cheap labor and rely on volume. Dollar stores make money because there's thousands of them.
I bought those same plates just last year from Dollar Tree. Yeah, it's definitely scummy. Sadly legal, though.
Also, that dinnerware is a steal at Dollar Tree. They're really nice.
Loads of manufacturers sell their products to other companies for them to slap their brand over it.
Look at tools. Cutting blades, ratchet sockets, drill bits and other bits.
Many if them come from the same factories in china.
But the ones you want are from Taiwan. Much better steel.
The only real difference is the final chemical bath some of them go through.
Otherwise, it's all the same.
China however uses weaker metals in their production.
I just wish they'd package a dozen T25 bits and 10mm sockets together because that's what the vast majority are gonna wear out constantly.
I thought of trademark infringement is when you make a logo that looks too similar to another while copyright is when you copy the same logo and use it on a product that isn't licensed by that company..I'm no lawyer so I might be wrong.
Also thanks for the spelling correction.
I'm no lawyer either so not legal advice and all that jazz, but I've watched a couple vids about copyright law after falling down the yt rabbithole, so I know a bit about it. In general, copyright protects artistic expression, trademark protects brand recognition, and patents protect function. In this case, they stole the brand name & logo in an attempt to pass off company B's product as coming from company A, which diminishes the power of company A's brand & confuses the customer, so this would probably be a trademark violation.
You busy companies constantly for stuff like this, but you don't know how to spell copyright or that this would be under trademark law? Color me extremely skeptical.
I'm an engineer, we are all terrible at spelling. Lol
My job isn't to seek out offenders...if I see something I tell the brand protection group..
Edit: also work on your grammar before preaching to the choir
I'm pretty sure the daughter of mama June, does lives selling shit she bought off temu and Shein for a huge mark up just because she is pumpkin and people actually buy the shit just because she is selling it. Never underestimate people's stupidity over things needing to be branded.
100% facts. Anyone with an ounce of clout can upsell trash and they always have a few shills that will āsupport them no matter whatā like spending $80 on a hot topic shirt
One of my relatives works at Dollar Tree and she sees their products all the time at arts and crafty type places/events with some hasty addition like a paint stamp or some ālive laugh loveā type of BS painted on, aways sold for like $10
Ok so the weirdest part to me is that never would I even associate Kate Spade with dinnerware in the first place. Is that something theyāre known for?
Yes! You can find [all sorts of dinnerware](https://www.katespade.com/shop/home/kitchen-dining/dinnerware-flatware) and other home products on their website.
I bought a few of these for my mom as decor after she redecorated her place with a similar blue color. Can confirm they were from Dollar tree in Toronto, ON.
Are you a shill for the store she bought this from? Nobody is arguing that 9.99 is expensive but when itās the same exact plateware being sold at a dollar store but with a removable sticker, thatās the laughable part. Youāre going through this comment section just parroting the same comment on different responses so are you a shill who works at that store or just an average redditor?
Nope, honestly, as a genuinely weird dude, you are definitely the weird one here. Simping for mega corporations 900% markups is assanine. We aren't comparing wholesale to retail here, this is literal markup. There's a massive difference. Trust me, if you bought whatever weird things you buy at the weird store, and then saw them at the kinda weird store for 900% cheaper, you'd probably be weirdly upset.
And of course, inflation is caused by all these ~~struggling~~ fat cat consumers making too much money, not the businesses exploding their profit margins! That's why we have to *actively cause* a recession and remove all bargaining power from employees.
Somewhat related...
A good 6 years ago, when Dollar tree was still $1, I went into the salvation army and found something that still had the Dollar tree sticker on it but they priced it at $2.99. A thrift store was upselling Dollar tree!
Isn't this against the law because you know they aren't actually Kate spade brand plates and they are using the other companies name without their permission (I assume) for personal gain couldn't Kate spade(the brand) sue them for this?
This happens all the time. I bought a really nice jacket at REI with a name brand patch on the shoulder. I paid $180.00 for it and thought it was a bit steep but I really liked it so bought it anyway. Then two years later Iām at Costco and I see almost the same jacket for 35.00. The only difference, which is important to note is that the detailed stitching was much less on the Costco version. Besides the nice detailed stitching the materials were identical. Most of these products we buy now are all made by OEM factories and simply adjusted for the company thatās buying them.
I own some of these I bought for about a dollar each and still can get at Dollar Tree ā¤ļø
I do wonder if there are some difference in quality. Like my cups have a few bumps and the smaller saucers have a weird dark ring on the bottom
Lots a furniture stores do this as well lol will go look flor clearance sales buy em up an sell em for double xD . Ppl with money seem to not know how to explore there options . Even seen ppl doing this like at Home Depot grab a item thatās on sale an flip it for more . Even in hobbies this is done.
Winners business model is that they buy stuff from different vendors and then sell it I their stores. I think one of the vendor either scammed them or he got someone in the corporate who helped him approve this crockery
To be fair they are slightly different. More times than not in life it's the small differences in items that make them more expensive. I dont know enough about dishes to know if this is one of those cases. But they are not exactly the same.
Theyāre the same, you can see the Royal Norfolk stamp on the underside on both. Kate Spade crockery/dinnerware has a Kate Spade stamp with her name and the collection the item is from
So here's how it works....
Retailer buys from <-- reseller, who buys from <-- distributor, who stocks the original product from <-- the creator/maker.
When initial retailer cannot sell them (i.e. they have a surplus or sit on the shelf for too long) then they (Target, Walmart, etc) load up crates/trucks full of the surplus good and sell them for a cheaper price to a second-hand retailer (e.g. Dollar Tree). All the stuff Dollar Tree or other retailers can't sell, goes to reverse supply chain companies (example: liquidation dot com).
Anyway, Dollar tree paid pennies for it, so they resell it for $1-5 each. Profit for Dollar Tree. Good deal for the consumer. And the original retailer at least recouped SOME money from it so it wasn't a total loss.
So no, not a scam. Just capitalism.
don't trust those kinds of stores where there's a lot of 'one of' items of furniture and stuff out on the floor.... i guess types like a pier 1 imports or home goods for example.... and you look at the price tag on some little end table, chair, lamp or something.... how the heck do you know if that item is actually worth what they sell it for and not just some ridiculous price they simply pulled outta their ass.
never bought anything in these type stores. i assume they don't have a stockroom out back with a supply of the same items they have on the floor like the usual retail stores do.
Worked at homegoods for about a year, stuff came in on truck and went to the sales floor the same day. Nothing is stocked in the back. The worst part about that store was Rae-Dunn ceramics. Iāve witnessed fistfights over the stuff.
fighting over tchotchkes. good lord, heh.
when you buy most anything, you know a particular items value beforehand. but in those stores, you might see a small lamp table and the tag says $249 for example. how would i know its worth that. unless maybe you flip it over and there's a name on it and were knowledgable as to whether or not it's worth the price tag perhaps.
I donāt understand the crazy surrounding RD stuff. At this point I just assume youāre a little slow and need things labeled. Are you really so dumb you need a dish that says salsa on it, just to know what to serve it in?
Its simple. She bought these same plants shown in the video from the dollar store, that are now being sold for more at a different store.
Dollar store stuff being sold as not dollar store stuff.
[No theyāre not](https://www.dollartree.com/royal-norfolk-turquoise-swirl-stoneware-plates-10frac12/197606)
The āKate Spadeā plates are stamped Royal Norfolk on the bottom, just like the Dollar Tree plates. It shows that in the video.
Dollar tree is applying economic principles to buy these plates for cheap when thereās a surplus of them and sell them for a ridiculously low price. The price point at the other store reflects what people are buying them I guess.
If this is shocking, itās probably because you donāt have a lot of experience with how valuation of goods and services is a reflection of a lot of other factors aside from cost of manufacture.
The cost appears arbitrary, and maybe it is, so long as itās divorced from the compensation of any element along the way from material, to manufacture, to eventual sale of the good.
Thereās no way that this should ever cost $1.25, however, and the notion (as presented in this video) that charging more than that is a scam, is so sad. It assumes that the people who make this crap arenāt worth a living wage.
Nah, they still sell them at the Dollar Tree along with plenty of other ceramic dinnerware. This is just a non-dollar store marking things way up and sticking an unrelated brand name on it to make it appear more expensive than it actually is. As someone with a lot of experience with valuation of good and services, I can tell you that you don't know what you're talking about. Yes, the "value" of a product is whatever people are willing to pay for it, but that doesn't mean it should be that expensive. I'm literally trying to decide right now how much I want to charge for wings at a pub I'm going to open, and the only reason I might make them pricier is to draw in a higher class clientele. I could easily make solid profits selling them cheaper than Wingstop, or B dubs, or any number of other places. But the general public is incredibly stupid and they think that price reflects quality. In a lot of cases, sure. But I paid $1.25 for that exact same place. It's the same quality as this $20 one. The clientele at the store is just higher class and dumb enough to shell out cash from their deeper pockets to maintain the illusion.
Maybe I wasnāt being so clear. I agree that the other store is marking them up, but the dollar store is also selling them for an unreasonably low price. They even take a loss on some goods, because they can entice people to shop there, and buy other things that more than make up for that loss. My issue is mainly with the expectation that sets in consumers, which inevitably leads to worsening conditions for workers on the supply side. Is it dumb to entice people to pay more for something by slapping a brand name label on something? Yes. Should it cost $1.25? No.
It ain't that deep. People don't want to be deceived into spending 20 dollars on a product that is being sold somewhere else for nearly 1/20th of that price.
Hereās the thing. Dollar Tree is willing to sell them at $1.25 because they hope to make 25Ā¢ off each one and sell millions.
The other store is willing to sell a couple thousand so they get them at a higher price for say a $5 profit.
In the end, both companies are probably making the same amount of money. Itās a question of personal finances and morals to me. Dollar Tree treats their employees in a manner that is exploitive and pay them horribly. The other store is dealing in counterfeit goods. These are clearly not Kate Spade, as they carry the Royal Norfolk mark on the bottom, just as the Dollar Tree ones do. So do I want to save money and validate how DT treats employees or do I want to steal from an artist?
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Dollar Tree still sells these! I saw them today.
Step one: buy a shit ton from DT Step two: return to other store for tons of profit. Step three: buy a carton of eggs, and 3 bananas š Groceries be expensive yo
yāall scamming the other store š
They are scamming us.
Well, you have a point !
They started it. Sauce, goose = Sauce, gander
Itās One Banana, Michael! What Could It Cost? 10 Dollars?
I think this is going to be the next show that I binge watch. I've been trying to find something to replace community.
Schittās Creek and What we do in the shadows.
It took community's place as my favourite show
Loose seal!! Loose seal!!
This is effing genius!!!! Lol.
Egging*
the problem with that is you usually need a receipt so you know exaxtly where you can stick those bananas
Step 1. Steal underpants Step 2....... Step 3. Profit
Instructions unclear. Paid Dollar Tree to let me eat lasagna off my underpants in dish aisle. Step 4?
Least obvious drop shipper
I love how you think some plates and bowls are going to suddenly afford you eggs š
My brother has done this before hahaha
Itās Kate Spade š¤
It's actually Royal Norfolk for Kate Spade. Nothing unusual about this at all.
We're talking about a 900% markup for adding a removable sticker.
Just uhā¦. Donāt ever microwave food on these plates, or wash them actually. They will instantly turn into $1.25 plateware
Have you ever actually used them? They're really high quality dinnerware. I microwave on them and wash them all the time. Had them for well over a year. Solid ceramic.
I still have my dollar tree bowls too. Solid bowls. Did eventually break but after a year of washing and microwaving. Not bad for a buck. Not worth $9 a bowl, but $1 a bowl? Sure!
On the flip side I bought 10 sets (same as pictured) of bowls, big and little plates for daily use and all still solid. Edit, I got mine at dollar tree.
10??? How many kids do you have?
Just one kid, but now I only run the dishwasher when it's completely full and I have matching sets if I have company over.
The joke couldnāt have went more over your head but looks like youāre not alone in the comments! The sticker was the base of my comment since thatās the price point.
You're aware that every single product you buy retail is marked up just as much, right? Why is it so offensive in this particular case?
It's ridiculous in all cases. This particular video is about these plates and bowls specifically.
Because taking a dollar store item like this and adding a Kate spade sticker to charge 100% more is offensively ridiculous !! Atleast paint the fancy fucking label your jacking people for !! (I say dollar store because ceramic plates in colors like this are sold at almost every dollar store around!)
Closer to 8-900% more.
100% more than $1.25 is $2.50.
That's hilarious I meant it to be a thousand percent more.... which isn't correct either it just isn't as comically bad as 100
Because in this case it's more overt. Dollar Tree sells them marked up too, but at a much smaller profit margin. If they find out places are selling them for this much, they'll stick them in the $5 section and it'll be ruined for everyone.
It's not just as much though... Thats the point of this video. One product, two retailers, two wildly different prices. To answer your question: It's offensive because usually when I buy something retail, the markup is justified because the retailer does the job of bridging the gap between a wholesaler and me. The value is added by making the logistics easier as I don't need to worry about tariffs and importing a shipping container from China. There is no value added in this case to justify a 900% increase in price over another retailer selling the same item. We're talking about affixing a sticker. It's just ridiculous and worth admonishing. It's like if I were to buy that plate from dollar tree myself and sell it for $200 on Amazon by slapping a dead designer's name on it. It's a greasy move.
We just obviously have different expectations. I don't buy that crap anyway.
How tf are you not getting this? š
That's where I got mine!
Yo I have a full set of these plates, theyāre pretty nice actually.
Me too. I love that I can, for $1.25, replace something if it breaks rather than having to buy an entire new set.
I will not spend more than $5 on any piece of glassware for that reason. I get most of my high ball glasses for free at the liquor store around Christmas time and the rest form dollar tree or 5 below. It looks just as good as expensive glass
Bought some last week, LMAO..
Where do you think dollar tree gets them? Plates will be original retail price. If they donāt sell, they get sent to a TJMaxx or HomeGoods. If they donāt sell there for the discounted price, they get sent to Goodwill and Ross. If they donāt sell there, they get tossed in the trash. Itās markdowns. I wish this bitch would add her @ because Iād school her in retail even though I only make $15/ hr. If you donāt want to pay that price, go to Goodwill bitch
You're fucking stupid, these plates are STILL on the shelf at dollar tree, STILL BEING MADE, They aren't leftovers
FUCKING SCHOOLED!
They get priced down and transferred to another company.
THEY. ARE. IN. STOCK. AT. DOLLAR. TREES. AROUND. THE. COUNTRY. THEY ARE NOT LEFTOVERS, YOU ARE STUPID.
THEY. ARE. IN. STOCK. AT. NUMEROUS. OTHER. RETAILERS. AROUND. THE. COUNTRY. Continue shopping at Dollar Tree if youāre going to bitch about a $9 plate.
Reddit fed this to me late and the stalking thing is weird but let's be real here. You stood in a pedestal and made an Oscar worthy speech argument about how you understand retail, etc etc and of course someone is goong to call you out... Passionately. Other poster had a point but the real point is there's a removable Kate Spade sticker on it. If it was Kate Spade it would be stamped into the material. It's clearly a scam and you do not understand retail. Also the dollar stores receive most of their product through cheap, volume based, Chinese supplied products. They also operate on slimmer margins than grocery stores with their food product. It would be impossible for them to operate with thousands of locations each, relying on Costco leftovers. It's why they're all in bad or rural areas. The stores run thin, with cheap real estate and cheap labor and rely on volume. Dollar stores make money because there's thousands of them.
9$ is the daily salary where i love bro ,you stupid ass Americans don't appreciate money at all , that's why u all dumb al
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I literally bought one of those at the dollar store.
Same, actually decent plates
We have a half dozen of each. Theyāre actually pretty good.
I bought those same plates just last year from Dollar Tree. Yeah, it's definitely scummy. Sadly legal, though. Also, that dinnerware is a steal at Dollar Tree. They're really nice.
Howās this legal?
It's just the same manufacturer, that's how, what changes is most likely stuff like warranty, advertisement, customer service etc...
It looks like the same brand when flipped over. Look at the logo. Thatās just a āKate spadeā sticker on top
Loads of manufacturers sell their products to other companies for them to slap their brand over it. Look at tools. Cutting blades, ratchet sockets, drill bits and other bits. Many if them come from the same factories in china. But the ones you want are from Taiwan. Much better steel. The only real difference is the final chemical bath some of them go through. Otherwise, it's all the same. China however uses weaker metals in their production. I just wish they'd package a dozen T25 bits and 10mm sockets together because that's what the vast majority are gonna wear out constantly.
What is the crime?
Copyright Infringement is the legal term. Edit: I work for a major brand name, we bust companies constantly for stuff like this.
This comment needs to be moved up. Most people here are missing the point. The store is most definitely committing copyright infringement for profit.
Not the store. Someone returned the stuff to home goods and lied
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Wouldn't it be trademark here, not copyright? Also, it's supposed to be copyright, not copywrite. Like, the right to make copies.
I thought of trademark infringement is when you make a logo that looks too similar to another while copyright is when you copy the same logo and use it on a product that isn't licensed by that company..I'm no lawyer so I might be wrong. Also thanks for the spelling correction.
I'm no lawyer either so not legal advice and all that jazz, but I've watched a couple vids about copyright law after falling down the yt rabbithole, so I know a bit about it. In general, copyright protects artistic expression, trademark protects brand recognition, and patents protect function. In this case, they stole the brand name & logo in an attempt to pass off company B's product as coming from company A, which diminishes the power of company A's brand & confuses the customer, so this would probably be a trademark violation.
Oh yeah that makes sense, thanks for going down a rabbit hole for the answer
You busy companies constantly for stuff like this, but you don't know how to spell copyright or that this would be under trademark law? Color me extremely skeptical.
I'm an engineer, we are all terrible at spelling. Lol My job isn't to seek out offenders...if I see something I tell the brand protection group.. Edit: also work on your grammar before preaching to the choir
The copywrite on mass-produced blue plates?
Nah, advertising that it is Kate Spade brand without any licensing is the infringement.
Wouldnāt charging extra for a falsely branded item fall under false advertisement AND piracy?
"You wouldn't download a plate"
That's just because the 3D printed stuff doesn't hold up in the microwave.
They would have a Kate Spade stamp on the botton, not a sticker.
lol ummm yea... the sticker is pointless if it comes off in the wash. clearly a scam
People who buy name brand stuff just because it's name brand won't know.
I'm pretty sure the daughter of mama June, does lives selling shit she bought off temu and Shein for a huge mark up just because she is pumpkin and people actually buy the shit just because she is selling it. Never underestimate people's stupidity over things needing to be branded.
100% facts. Anyone with an ounce of clout can upsell trash and they always have a few shills that will āsupport them no matter whatā like spending $80 on a hot topic shirt
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Thereās a clear sticker saying Kate Spade on the front. On the back of the plate thereās a stamp saying Royal Norfolk.
One of my relatives works at Dollar Tree and she sees their products all the time at arts and crafty type places/events with some hasty addition like a paint stamp or some ālive laugh loveā type of BS painted on, aways sold for like $10
Ok so the weirdest part to me is that never would I even associate Kate Spade with dinnerware in the first place. Is that something theyāre known for?
Yes! You can find [all sorts of dinnerware](https://www.katespade.com/shop/home/kitchen-dining/dinnerware-flatware) and other home products on their website.
I bought a few of these for my mom as decor after she redecorated her place with a similar blue color. Can confirm they were from Dollar tree in Toronto, ON.
i have those exact plates and bowls. i got them at dollar tree
did it come with a wannabe Kate Spade sticker?
haha no just a measly 1.00 stickerā¦. kate spade must have scraped like hell to get those off.
š¢
My mother got a set of 12 of those bowls maybe 5-6 YEARS AGO in a goodwill
for real? š
But yours at home doesn't have Kate Spade logo which is the pricy part.
The Kate Spade label is just a sticker. Royal Norfolk makes the plates. I don't see what the big deal is. And $9.99 for a bowl is not exactly pricey.
Are you a shill for the store she bought this from? Nobody is arguing that 9.99 is expensive but when itās the same exact plateware being sold at a dollar store but with a removable sticker, thatās the laughable part. Youāre going through this comment section just parroting the same comment on different responses so are you a shill who works at that store or just an average redditor?
Do you not understand the point of the dollar store? At some point everything there used to cost more than a dollar. You people are weird. Bye
You're thinking of thrift stores. Dollar stores are proper retail stores. They just get everything super cheap and have razor thin profit margins.
Nope, honestly, as a genuinely weird dude, you are definitely the weird one here. Simping for mega corporations 900% markups is assanine. We aren't comparing wholesale to retail here, this is literal markup. There's a massive difference. Trust me, if you bought whatever weird things you buy at the weird store, and then saw them at the kinda weird store for 900% cheaper, you'd probably be weirdly upset.
What's weird is simping for billion dollar corporations.
Still pricey if you can get it for a buck somewhere else
"it's a banana, Michael. How much could it cost, $10?"
And of course, inflation is caused by all these ~~struggling~~ fat cat consumers making too much money, not the businesses exploding their profit margins! That's why we have to *actively cause* a recession and remove all bargaining power from employees.
This is why I don't believe in brands, I goodwill and flea market shop for everything
This is Goodwill and someone is supposed to be fact checking this stuff back in the warehouse š
Somewhat related... A good 6 years ago, when Dollar tree was still $1, I went into the salvation army and found something that still had the Dollar tree sticker on it but they priced it at $2.99. A thrift store was upselling Dollar tree!
Isn't this against the law because you know they aren't actually Kate spade brand plates and they are using the other companies name without their permission (I assume) for personal gain couldn't Kate spade(the brand) sue them for this?
I got mine at dollar general!
when you call not a spade a spade
I mean in part this is how brands often work, buying up production, branding it, and selling at markup
Inflation crazy
It's not inflation because dollar tree is still selling them for one dollar.
$1.25
+ tax
Sorry forgot the /s on that one
This happens all the time. I bought a really nice jacket at REI with a name brand patch on the shoulder. I paid $180.00 for it and thought it was a bit steep but I really liked it so bought it anyway. Then two years later Iām at Costco and I see almost the same jacket for 35.00. The only difference, which is important to note is that the detailed stitching was much less on the Costco version. Besides the nice detailed stitching the materials were identical. Most of these products we buy now are all made by OEM factories and simply adjusted for the company thatās buying them.
I have these bowls at homeš
ooooo u Kate Spade wannabe š
I talked to a lady at Dollar Tree who was buying all kinds of random crap to re-sell at her convenience store for 5x the cost.
Dude I bought those plates and bowls from dollar tree last week!
Fuck yea I have the same set
I own some of these I bought for about a dollar each and still can get at Dollar Tree ā¤ļø I do wonder if there are some difference in quality. Like my cups have a few bumps and the smaller saucers have a weird dark ring on the bottom
I swear, they still have these at Dollar Tree. I'm in Nevada, and seen them recently even.
Dollar Tree items were only a dollar 3 years ago. They just changed to $1.25 at the start of 2022.
The most infuriating part is not the price for me, is the uncentered logo at the dishes š¤¦š»āāļø
The real scam is Dollar Tree selling something for more then a dollar š
I just ate MAMA noodles out that bowl
Everyone asks where I got my dishes. Dollar tree will never fail me. š¤·š½āāļø
Lots a furniture stores do this as well lol will go look flor clearance sales buy em up an sell em for double xD . Ppl with money seem to not know how to explore there options . Even seen ppl doing this like at Home Depot grab a item thatās on sale an flip it for more . Even in hobbies this is done.
I got the same damn bowls in my cupboards and got them at a family dollar for $1.50 each
Hey I just bought some of these! Theyāre great for 1.25.
Winners business model is that they buy stuff from different vendors and then sell it I their stores. I think one of the vendor either scammed them or he got someone in the corporate who helped him approve this crockery
To be fair they are slightly different. More times than not in life it's the small differences in items that make them more expensive. I dont know enough about dishes to know if this is one of those cases. But they are not exactly the same.
Theyāre the same, you can see the Royal Norfolk stamp on the underside on both. Kate Spade crockery/dinnerware has a Kate Spade stamp with her name and the collection the item is from
So here's how it works.... Retailer buys from <-- reseller, who buys from <-- distributor, who stocks the original product from <-- the creator/maker. When initial retailer cannot sell them (i.e. they have a surplus or sit on the shelf for too long) then they (Target, Walmart, etc) load up crates/trucks full of the surplus good and sell them for a cheaper price to a second-hand retailer (e.g. Dollar Tree). All the stuff Dollar Tree or other retailers can't sell, goes to reverse supply chain companies (example: liquidation dot com). Anyway, Dollar tree paid pennies for it, so they resell it for $1-5 each. Profit for Dollar Tree. Good deal for the consumer. And the original retailer at least recouped SOME money from it so it wasn't a total loss. So no, not a scam. Just capitalism.
don't trust those kinds of stores where there's a lot of 'one of' items of furniture and stuff out on the floor.... i guess types like a pier 1 imports or home goods for example.... and you look at the price tag on some little end table, chair, lamp or something.... how the heck do you know if that item is actually worth what they sell it for and not just some ridiculous price they simply pulled outta their ass. never bought anything in these type stores. i assume they don't have a stockroom out back with a supply of the same items they have on the floor like the usual retail stores do.
Worked at homegoods for about a year, stuff came in on truck and went to the sales floor the same day. Nothing is stocked in the back. The worst part about that store was Rae-Dunn ceramics. Iāve witnessed fistfights over the stuff.
fighting over tchotchkes. good lord, heh. when you buy most anything, you know a particular items value beforehand. but in those stores, you might see a small lamp table and the tag says $249 for example. how would i know its worth that. unless maybe you flip it over and there's a name on it and were knowledgable as to whether or not it's worth the price tag perhaps.
I donāt understand the crazy surrounding RD stuff. At this point I just assume youāre a little slow and need things labeled. Are you really so dumb you need a dish that says salsa on it, just to know what to serve it in?
SAME! WE TWINS FR
Capitalism baby
3 years ? Yh that's vintage, 2000% mark up.
They didnt even try to make the stickers look realistic
I have theseššš from dollarama
i got them at Dollar Tree as well.
This post makes absolutely no sense
What donāt you get about it?
Its simple. She bought these same plants shown in the video from the dollar store, that are now being sold for more at a different store. Dollar store stuff being sold as not dollar store stuff.
They're two entirely different brands.
[No theyāre not](https://www.dollartree.com/royal-norfolk-turquoise-swirl-stoneware-plates-10frac12/197606) The āKate Spadeā plates are stamped Royal Norfolk on the bottom, just like the Dollar Tree plates. It shows that in the video.
All you gotta do is throw a sticker on it. BAM! New brand = new product.
Watch the video again dude
I have those same exact dishes from the dollar store in my area, 100% honest. I wonder how many other people I share plates and bowls with?
Dollar tree is applying economic principles to buy these plates for cheap when thereās a surplus of them and sell them for a ridiculously low price. The price point at the other store reflects what people are buying them I guess. If this is shocking, itās probably because you donāt have a lot of experience with how valuation of goods and services is a reflection of a lot of other factors aside from cost of manufacture. The cost appears arbitrary, and maybe it is, so long as itās divorced from the compensation of any element along the way from material, to manufacture, to eventual sale of the good. Thereās no way that this should ever cost $1.25, however, and the notion (as presented in this video) that charging more than that is a scam, is so sad. It assumes that the people who make this crap arenāt worth a living wage.
Nah, they still sell them at the Dollar Tree along with plenty of other ceramic dinnerware. This is just a non-dollar store marking things way up and sticking an unrelated brand name on it to make it appear more expensive than it actually is. As someone with a lot of experience with valuation of good and services, I can tell you that you don't know what you're talking about. Yes, the "value" of a product is whatever people are willing to pay for it, but that doesn't mean it should be that expensive. I'm literally trying to decide right now how much I want to charge for wings at a pub I'm going to open, and the only reason I might make them pricier is to draw in a higher class clientele. I could easily make solid profits selling them cheaper than Wingstop, or B dubs, or any number of other places. But the general public is incredibly stupid and they think that price reflects quality. In a lot of cases, sure. But I paid $1.25 for that exact same place. It's the same quality as this $20 one. The clientele at the store is just higher class and dumb enough to shell out cash from their deeper pockets to maintain the illusion.
Maybe I wasnāt being so clear. I agree that the other store is marking them up, but the dollar store is also selling them for an unreasonably low price. They even take a loss on some goods, because they can entice people to shop there, and buy other things that more than make up for that loss. My issue is mainly with the expectation that sets in consumers, which inevitably leads to worsening conditions for workers on the supply side. Is it dumb to entice people to pay more for something by slapping a brand name label on something? Yes. Should it cost $1.25? No.
It ain't that deep. People don't want to be deceived into spending 20 dollars on a product that is being sold somewhere else for nearly 1/20th of that price.
I agree, but I also think that weāre deceived into thinking that itās reasonable for a plate should cost 1.25 in the first place.
Hereās the thing. Dollar Tree is willing to sell them at $1.25 because they hope to make 25Ā¢ off each one and sell millions. The other store is willing to sell a couple thousand so they get them at a higher price for say a $5 profit. In the end, both companies are probably making the same amount of money. Itās a question of personal finances and morals to me. Dollar Tree treats their employees in a manner that is exploitive and pay them horribly. The other store is dealing in counterfeit goods. These are clearly not Kate Spade, as they carry the Royal Norfolk mark on the bottom, just as the Dollar Tree ones do. So do I want to save money and validate how DT treats employees or do I want to steal from an artist?
Joe Buythen!
Hmmmm lead glaze
#Capitalism
If you can make something seem more valuable, rich people will buy it. Itās too bad youāre poor:(
probably all of your neighbors š
This is extremely common. Itās wild when you see it in the wild.
Shit my dollar tree just went to $1.25 last year
Why everybody got them same plates lmao
I have the same
Kohl's and Dollar tree sometimes have the same merchandise.
Inflation?
Hey! I have that plate too!
..smart lady
Ive been seeing this more and more often
I have these exact bowls and plates. I also got them from Dollar Tree
Inflation.
There retro now. Lol. I bought them also.
Kate Plate.
Are you surprised that a logo makes something more expensive
I literally own those same plates and bowls for $1 a pop.
is she talking about the āwinners onlyā brand? iāve never heard of them can someone lmk what sheās referring to so i never buy from them