General IH Discussion

I'm surprised bentin didn't point it out yet, but the alignment on those shirts isn't very good.

wasn't someone looking for a bluexblack 130 in XL? Well there is one for sale on the IHUK forum.

same guy as last time who dropped his price a lot. Just noticed that he updated his measurement or I just didn't notice it before but I can't fit 18" shoulders. My slimmest shirt I own is 18.5 and that is already tight as is.

thanks for thinking of me though guys

Well, I caved and got a pair of the 633's 18oz OD. Kiya did say in an email another run will be done in September though, for those that may have missed out.

Yeah, guess the fact they almost sold out so fast would have changed his mind a bit lol.

And a 14oz in the 633's fit?

I saw the 14oz od in the 777 fit on IH, but I will have to get some hard wear on my pair coming in before I would buy another OD jean I feel.

I love seeing Jacob Bannon from Converge rocking IH




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98% chance you already own it and just have shit piled up in front of it. Check near the back of your closet.

btw...did anyone else notice in any emails they received from Rodeo Bros for recent IH purhcases that they mention if you want to buy IH gear from them now to shoot them an email? which means it's still possible??

I made last ditch purchases and picked up a black and blue 13 and they mentioned that.

Posted in the wrong thread earlier... oops lol.

Couple shades of Iron Heart.

Shh.

Yeah, I may have to grab the 14oz 633 OD when they drop.

A few points:

1) Jake is wearing an IHSH-52

2) Haraki decided to restrict online sales in Japan with zero pressure from me. He did it for his own reasons. I was pretty shocked when he told me, and I did ask him if he was sure that he wanted to do it. He's 100% sure and totally happy with his decision.

3) Regarding international pricing - this is what I wrote on this forum last time there was a discussion about it:

"I can’t talk about pricing without expanding the discussion to include the greater business model. I have chosen to have a retail network. That decision has certain impacts, one of which is that retailers need to make a certain margin over wholesale to be viable. That margin varies between 2x and 5x in the clothing industry. My retailers are lucky to make much more than 2x, so they are already at the limit of what is acceptable. That means that I have to have a list price outside of Japan that enables me to sell at wholesale (and make a margin) but also enable my retailers to make the margins that they need to. So having a retail network in a way, forces the retail price to be what it is. But the simple alternative is that I have no retail network and 1,000’s of customers around the globe would not have actual physical access to product (then I’d probably take flak for not having any retailers). On a side note, I have dozens of potential retailers who stop talking to me when I tell them what the margins will be.

I have 3000 square foot of premises here, much of which is product storage, that costs. I have to ship product, pay import tax (12% on landed cost) and 20% VAT (I do get that back, but I have to pay it out initially and wait up to 3 months for a refund). I can’t under declare product cost when importing (and risk having my premises and stock impounded, because that is what happens if you are caught defrauding the Government), so everything is declared at true landed cost. We have 2* guys here, who spend the majority of their time shipping and interfacing with customers, literally some days both of then spend all day dealing with sizing and fit questions, I have to pay them a living wage.

Would I like to be able to sell this stuff for less that I do? Of course I would and whenever I can, I pass cost savings on as price reductions. But the simple truth is, I have to make a profit to continue doing what we do."

*Actually, we have 6 full time members of staff now.

4) There is zero "s'posed to" and no legal requirement to do so when it comes to refunding VAT to non EU customers. This is our position:

"We do not refund VAT I am afraid. We had a choice when determining our pricing policy either to price high and refund VAT for non European Union customers or price lower and not refund the VAT.

We decided on balance that having our retail price as low as possible and the same for all our customers worldwide was the simplest approach."

Giles