[EBH]

To further this, China now offers a 240-hour (10-day) visa-free transit policy for many countries, including the United States and several in Europe. Add point-of-purchase rebates and easy-to-join shopping tours, and, well… you might as well buy a luxury suitcase in China to carry all those white-label luxury goodies you’ll snag there.

[EBH]

China’s 240-hour Visa-Free Transit Policy

https://www.visaforchina.cn/SYD3_EN/tongzhigonggao/329041139338448896.html

[EBH]

https://www.threads.net/@theclassybratt/post/DIXfhPatfSy?xmt=AQGzWKcr3ObRKw_vla3usNGnVf9Jh-RyfOivD2LBo8t4Bw

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Well, China fights dirty y’all. Did you know 80% of all designer purses are actually made in China? I can’t believe they just destroyed the luxury brand market. Trump, what did you do? 🤦‍♀️😆I’m talking Chanel, Hermes Birkin, everything!!! They are offering 9 day passes for people to visit China and shop duty-free with just a small tax in some of these videos. 😭😭😭 The good news is I just found out my knock off bags bought in China, including the LV are the real thing w/out the label

[EBH]

On a side note, as a very old retail salesperson...we all knew this all along. Unless you are buying handmade goods at a craft fair, it most likely came from China.

[HYPOCRACY]

This is hysterical. China taking the EU luxury goods down with them. Everybody knew this but convinced themselves it wasn’t true. The only thing they did in Italy or France was sew the label on.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping. Interesting in light of the other thread.

[Jonty30]

When I did a night shift in St Laurent, a high end fashion shop, the stuff they had were $1,000 shoes, and a $4,000 blazer jacket, and $10,000 puffy down coat. The quality of the product was not any better than what you might find at Target or a mid priced clothing store in the mall.

I figured the only reason they buy this stuff was for the staus of being able to say they could afford the prices.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Many of these videos reveal that a bag from a luxury brand is largely produced by Chinese workers in China, then shipped to, say, France or Italy, for final embellishments.

Yeah, most luxury brands are a rip-off.

One good thing about Rolex is that every part and component of the watch is made in-house, by one of their three factories in Switzerland. Rolex even has its own foundry to create the steel and precious metal alloys.

[LilFarmer]

I have never understood the appeal of designer bags (or designer anything for that matter). I prefer to buy things that are well made and last. I have a no name leather purse made in the US that is going on 20 years that looks brand new.

[FLT-bird]

This will likely damage European luxury brands. There is no way IMO, this leads to Chinese made “luxury” goods have anywhere near the cache of French and Italian luxury goods.

This is likely to piss the Europeans off quite a bit.

[bert]

The endless videos on Youtube show all the luxury goods retailers in miles after mile of shops, thousands of square meters of empty malls and air port stores....... closed

You can’t take a luxury shopping tour if there are no shops

[PIF]

More Chinese propaganda the the media is too ready to swallow whole.

[Colorado Doug]

China does not understand that the stigma of low price will prevent upscale shoppers from buying their crap. They certainly will not want to buy a bag that someone in flyover country could afford. The original companies that offshored the expensive crap will never come back either after what China has done to them. They really shot themselves in the foot yet again.