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Overseas Warehouses Selling Flyers Winter Classic Jerseys Too Soon

Looking for my next Flyers jersey with Mike Richards shipped to LA, I found myself looking through overseas warehouse sites where excess NHL jerseys are sold for cheap. But while looking I came across something quite weird. These sites are selling a supposed 2012 Flyers Winter Classic Jersey.

These jersey websites have been greatly injuring the market that was once purely owned by the NHL. Now the companies who make these jersey are selling off what the NHL and other retailers do not buy, and at a fraction of the cost. The teams and league put in orders for what jerseys designs and players they would like to purchase, these warehouses then make up a huge amount of these and send them off to retailers. As previously stated the rest are sold online. Point being everything made is made as request of the leagues and retailers.

Here's the best part. The Flyers have not announced their 2012 Winter Classic jersey designs, yet these oversea warehouse sites are listing the Blazers look for sale as the WC jersey.

I look at Winnipeg's predicament, where they were in a rush to put in an order/design for their 2011-12 jerseys. The Flyers most likely were on a similar deadline where the warehouses wanted those designs quickly in order to start mass producing the style so retailers would have it right away.

It seems the overseas conductors haven't been paying too much attention for they are selling the Flyers 2012 Winter Classic jerseys before the game has even been announced. Here's a look at several sites doing so.




Is this a huge mistake by the sellers and the league? What do you think?
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  1. AnonymousAugust 31, 2011 at 3:42 PM

    I think you're jumping to conclusions. You're not accounting for independent persons looking to sell jerseys. For instance, pronger has not been announced captain, yet those jerseys have him named captain. We all assume he will be but we don't know if he will be. There is a huge difference between know and assume.

    The jerseys on that site are not all consistent which speaks more to forgery than authentics. For example, JVR's name plate is wrong. It's all upper case letters instead of lower case ones. These are not overstocked authentic jerseys. They are forgeries.

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  2. Cody GrayAugust 31, 2011 at 11:56 PM

    Thanks for the comment!

    Most "discount" sites ship from Chinese warehouses where these are mass produced, not independent sellers.

    I've ordered jersey from sites like this before, they are replicas even down to the authentic logo.

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