I noticed some golf apparel companies are going 100% Direct To Consumer, Are you good with buying without touching or trying on. My experience with Sitch and Devereux leads me to say yes.
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I noticed some golf apparel companies are going 100% Direct To Consumer, Are you good with buying without touching or trying on. My experience with Sitch and Devereux leads me to say yes.
You are on to something there. The famous courses should license their logo/name and control what it goes on in the same way the NBA,NFL and MLB do. Heck they may be doing it for all I know.DTC clothing? Probably not unless they can partner with the golf courses to be able to add their logo. Since hats, shirts from a certain clubs play a large role in sales.
I like Greyson shirts and I can only get them by ordering them online. I am not sure theya re strictly DTC though as I think some higher end department stores carry them like Nordstrom's.
I agree with @Cmontgomery it seems these companies are charging a premium without delivering a premium product. If I go to your site and the selection is 6 different solid color polos and they all 6 cost $80 why would I buy from you? I can go to Golf Galaxy and shop 100-200 different polos all $80 or less and even try them on. My opinion on most of these shirts is that they are all coming out of the exact same mills in SE Asia as each other. If you want to charge me a premium, make it look cool and unique. I can get a solid colored logoless stretch polo on Amazon for $20-$40 that came from the exact same place as your $80 solid colored stretch polo and there are 20-30 colors to choose from.
I think so. It seems to me many are moving that way. As long as they have a good return policyI noticed some golf apparel companies are going 100% Direct To Consumer, Are you good with buying without touching or trying on. My experience with Sitch and Devereux leads me to say yes.
There are actually a number of different places manufacturing apparel and quality can be quite different. I don't disagree with the idea that lack of creativity on some of these brands makes me think that a few guys got together and said "let's source some shirts" and here we are.
Using Straight Down as an example, a brand I think the quality is at or better than most, they make nearly half of their stuff here, in the US.
I don’t doubt that they’re coming from different sources, or even that some manufacturer in the US to some extent.
How do you define quality? I just have a hard time pulling the trigger on clothing that is 50% higher when the quality seems to be buried in the marketing and pricing. I’m no clothing connoisseur but cannot distinguish that demand in product pricing.
The other problem is with DTC like most of these companies are, without being able to distinguish themselves in my hand, they’ll have a hard time getting me to come off of my wallet. I looked at Straight Downs offering and all things that I tend to like. I simply can’t justify the price without being able to experience firsthand.
As for pricing, why do we as consumers allow DTC companies to simply increase their profits by not investing in shelf space and marketing as the big boys do? Should this be passed on to the consumer? Are they not realizing this savings?
Where's this on Amazon? I wanna know. Is the quality comparable to what I can get in the stores?I like Greyson shirts and I can only get them by ordering them online. I am not sure theya re strictly DTC though as I think some higher end department stores carry them like Nordstrom's.
I agree with @Cmontgomery it seems these companies are charging a premium without delivering a premium product. If I go to your site and the selection is 6 different solid color polos and they all 6 cost $80 why would I buy from you? I can go to Golf Galaxy and shop 100-200 different polos all $80 or less and even try them on. My opinion on most of these shirts is that they are all coming out of the exact same mills in SE Asia as each other. If you want to charge me a premium, make it look cool and unique. I can get a solid colored logoless stretch polo on Amazon for $20-$40 that came from the exact same place as your $80 solid colored stretch polo and there are 20-30 colors to choose from.
I like Greyson shirts and I can only get them by ordering them online. I am not sure theya re strictly DTC though as I think some higher end department stores carry them like Nordstrom's.
I agree with @Cmontgomery it seems these companies are charging a premium without delivering a premium product. If I go to your site and the selection is 6 different solid color polos and they all 6 cost $80 why would I buy from you? I can go to Golf Galaxy and shop 100-200 different polos all $80 or less and even try them on. My opinion on most of these shirts is that they are all coming out of the exact same mills in SE Asia as each other. If you want to charge me a premium, make it look cool and unique. I can get a solid colored logoless stretch polo on Amazon for $20-$40 that came from the exact same place as your $80 solid colored stretch polo and there are 20-30 colors to choose from.