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Originally Posted by Sangetsu
Here's an example, a Fall 2010 Marc Jacobs bag retails for 90,000 yen at Seibu department store in Ginza. The same bag retails for $380 at the Marc Jacobs store in Boston. When you consider the difference in the currency exchange rate at the moment, the bag sells for exactly three times as much in Japan as it does in America. By all rights, with the strong yen, the bag should only cost 30,000 yen in Japan. But once you add the Japanese tariffs on such goods, and the percentages which go to the distributor and retailer, the price becomes as typically outrageous as Japanese prices on luxury goods tend to be. And yes, all this extra money stays in Japan.
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One problem. Even though the Boston stores are called Marc Jacobs, they also go thru a third party right? The argument is all stores selling GUCCI are going thru third parties. I know there are GUCCI stores in Japan, like they have 54 of them or something like that. Why would the GUCCI stores in Japan go thru a third party and the Marc Jacobs in Boston not? Otherwise this whole argument got blown out of the water.