Because workers in China are much cheaper, they get only a couple of cents per working hour. Fishermen also catch shrimp int the North Sea and then carry it on trucks down to North Africa where workers remove the "shell" (?) I don't recall the right word and then the shrimps are ferried home again where they are sold... it's a mad, mad world...
Regina
Oh, and I agree with ValleyO... companies are business savvy, and they KNOW that consumers in Europe and in America (the only places that I know for sure), have a DEFINITE preference for luxury goods made in Italy, USA, France, etc. There's no way that they would send it to china for the "last part" and have the bag read "made in china"... you can't get the same $$$ in the retail market for Made in China stuff.
ALSO, I'd like to know for sure if any gucci is made in china... i haven't heard that anywhere else and I'd like to know more. I HOPE (fingers crossed) that it's not true!
it's just not really fair...we pay for the brand, the legacy...and burberry has a legacy...and now...they're paying less money to make the bag, yet the price still isn't going down
Yes, please, I would like to read that article! At least Burberry is honest about their production site as the label inside the bag states "Made in China".I'll try and find the articles where I read this to post.
...The thing that does annoy me is the decreasing customerservice we get for our high quality and expensive items. If you haven't gotten something in their boutique but somewhere else you just don't get the same service. They don't seem to stand behind their products, but how much money they made in a sale and the service they are willing to return for that money...
(I'm talking about all high end stuff, not just Burberry!)
My SA said that Burberry is now producing all the Prorsum handbags in Italy. They have a factory there (that is used by other luxury leather handbag brands also!). So at least the Prorsum line is made in Italy.
inch 37: this statement above is
not true...[/quote]
Excuse me Inch 37 but why do you say such a thing is "not true" and don't even bother to correct it? Please let me know if you know better than my SA.