Last weekend at an outlet mall I visited the Waterford/Wedgwood store and they had neatly covered the made in china sticker on the box with their "discounted" price sticker.
What has the world come to? Now I don't trust if Waterford is still made in Ireland.
How can a brand keep their reputation if they outsource work out of the country?
Has anyone visited the actual store in England at the factory and seen items that were made in China?
Maybe it's only stuff shipped to the US like the toys with harmful elements versus what the Chinese buy. I'm not bashing China, only the companies that are outsourcing to save money while their employees or former employees have less and less job opportunity.
Perhaps all artists should be free agents and use eBay as their marketplace to make a name for artisan goods actually made in the country of residence.
I buy what I like rather than by brand as many high end brands are offering items that look no better or hold up no better than a less expensive item.
Even the "stores" on eBay selling the designer items through keeping up the real deal versus any knockoffs aren't divulging where the item is actually made. Is an Hermes scarf really worth over $400 based on name recognition. Maybe owning a one of a kind is tres importante and a business has to make money from the richest--if so then why move down the ladder to an online
auction site for NEW goods?
I'm just not a shopper/buyer.
