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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ce BCA, post: 4333575, member: 18716&quot;]But that&#039;s an edge case with the designers name behind it - and the items offered for sale are also by a known brand/designer, and it&#039;s a house of straws...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356794[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356795[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t believe for a minute JL are making any money out of this, it&#039;s a marketing/social media points/positioning/loss leader.&nbsp; Major stores do all kinds of things to curate their look and position themselves.&nbsp; The amount of work a retailer like JL to have to do to put something on their site would cost way more than they get back from the sale of a single item, they will be losing a lot of money on every item sold unless they are selling 100&#039;s of each one, the average return rate on jewellery is about 10% too.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t seem to have done much to raise the market either if you look what you can buy them for on ebay/etsy etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Vintage jewellery is one of our main lines, brooches are a tough sell, especially at higher price points unless they have features the market wants.&nbsp; We can often sell the right named and period silver brooch for more than a anonymous gold and gemstone one despite gold being 75x as valuable as a metal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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