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Was having a chuckle at Joey Barton's rant about the new England kit the other day and then on facebook noticed someone say the city kits had gone up too.

Went on the site and the default setting for us now out them in Aus dollars and matched the shop price over here of $150. To put that in perspective at the start of the season I could either buy the shirt as is in our local sports shop for that price or for about $40 less have it ordered from the club shop, prem badges and name and number plus postage. Not any more.

From memory they were about 55 quid at seasons start, even when going to the desktop version of the site to check UK prices they came in at 85 quid now. So I dropped the club an email asking why and mentioning that this seasons kits were expensive enough considering the huge drop in quality from last season. My home kit didn't last one wear without bobbling.

Sadly I got a pathetic "we don't set prices, nike do" response from the club, basically saying stiff shit. I've been buying all the tops for years now, think next season will end that for me. To think the same thing I used to get for about $110 is now going to cost me well north of $200 a pop, disappointed to say the least. Has anyone seen if the price hike has taken effect in the club shop as well?

They are still about USD90 here in the US. Pretty much everywhere. That's a short sleeved top with no extra childish shit on it.

cheers

You don't have to buy a replica kit.

Or if the price is pissing you off and Nike have set it just buy one of those Thai fakes for a tenner.

I used to always buy at least one shirt, the quality of these this season was so shocking i haven't touched one. They're poor and i expect the thai fakes will be better made!

Twobob wrote:I used to always buy at least one shirt, the quality of these this season was so shocking i haven't touched one. They're poor and i expect the thai fakes will be better made!

Agreed.Even Le coq sportif and reebok produced better efforts.The umbro kits were great and they are owned by Nike so why did we end up with such poor quality shirts?

lets all have a disco wrote:You don't have to buy a replica kit. Or if the price is pissing you off and Nike have set it just buy one of those Thai fakes for a tenner.

You're right I don't have to, but a mid season price hike is discussion worthy. If tickets were 45 quid one week and 80 the next we'd be talking about it.

Green & Blue wrote:

Twobob wrote:I used to always buy at least one shirt, the quality of these this season was so shocking i haven't touched one. They're poor and i expect the thai fakes will be better made!

Agreed.Even Le coq sportif and reebok produced better efforts.The umbro kits were great and they are owned by Nike so why did we end up with such poor quality shirts?

Nike no longer owns umbro

Pretty Boy Lee wrote:Was having a chuckle at Joey Barton's rant about the new England kit the other day and then on facebook noticed someone say the city kits had gone up too.

Went on the site and the default setting for us now out them in Aus dollars and matched the shop price over here of $150. To put that in perspective at the start of the season I could either buy the shirt as is in our local sports shop for that price or for about $40 less have it ordered from the club shop, prem badges and name and number plus postage. Not any more.

From memory they were about 55 quid at seasons start, even when going to the desktop version of the site to check UK prices they came in at 85 quid now. So I dropped the club an email asking why and mentioning that this seasons kits were expensive enough considering the huge drop in quality from last season. My home kit didn't last one wear without bobbling.

Sadly I got a pathetic "we don't set prices, nike do" response from the club, basically saying stiff shit. I've been buying all the tops for years now, think next season will end that for me. To think the same thing I used to get for about $110 is now going to cost me well north of $200 a pop, disappointed to say the least. Has anyone seen if the price hike has taken effect in the club shop as well?

I just saw that. That is outrageous!!!

We are looking to create a new section on the site soon with a shop. This is in partner with Camporetro, I will post the links below to their online store and you can see what you think.

http://www.camporetro.com/Score-Draw/Manchester-City

http://www.camporetro.com/Score-Draw/England

Oh get in, when you open the section on this site will mancityfans benefit from purchases?

Wonderwall wrote:We are looking to create a new section on the site soon with a shop. This is in partner with Camporetro, I will post the links below to their online store and you can see what you think. http://www.camporetro.com/Score-Draw/Manchester-City http://www.camporetro.com/Score-Draw/England

Looks good!

Slim wrote:Oh get in, when you open the section on this site will mancityfans benefit from purchases?

Thats the plan :-) We help them market and every shirt bought via the site link gets us revenue

Seriously not impressed with Nike. Saw something on Facebook about our kits for next season. I hope it was a wind up. Can't see a mainly red away shirt going down well.

branny wrote:Seriously not impressed with Nike. Saw something on Facebook about our kits for next season. I hope it was a wind up. Can't see a mainly red away shirt going down well.

Did you see that yesterday, by any chance?

Also, are we getting 1, 2 or 3 new kits next season, does anybody know?

Anyone know if the New York City FC T shirts that featured at the launch recently are for sale??

The plot thickens.....I wonder if this is to do with whether it is a 'Shirt' or a 'Replica Shirt' as per the England shirt. If it was the latter, you would have thought MCFC would make an attempt to explain the reason for the additional cost wouldn't you!

MCFC shop accessed from Saudi IP Address




MCFC shop accessed from UK IP Address

Im_Spartacus wrote:The plot thickens.....I wonder if this is to do with whether it is a 'Shirt' or a 'Replica Shirt' as per the England shirt. If it was the latter, you would have thought MCFC would make an attempt to explain the reason for the additional cost wouldn't you!

MCFC shop accessed from Saudi IP Address




MCFC shop accessed from UK IP Address

It is - they are £49.50 on the website, which is still a ridiculous price. I'm on my work VPN, which makes it think I'm not in the UK even though I am - iPlayer etc won't work. Not sure where it thinks I am, but it was still showing as £49.50. Is it something to do with import taxes, although in which case, I'm surprised the price is in £?

Thankfully my Umbro shirt looks like it will last a few more seasons yet

Who the hell would pay nearly 90 notes for a footy shirt?

Barmy!

Blue Since 76 wrote:

Im_Spartacus wrote:The plot thickens.....I wonder if this is to do with whether it is a 'Shirt' or a 'Replica Shirt' as per the England shirt. If it was the latter, you would have thought MCFC would make an attempt to explain the reason for the additional cost wouldn't you!

It is - they are £49.50 on the website, which is still a ridiculous price. I'm on my work VPN, which makes it think I'm not in the UK even though I am - iPlayer etc won't work. Not sure where it thinks I am, but it was still showing as £49.50. Is it something to do with import taxes, although in which case, I'm surprised the price is in £?

Thankfully my Umbro shirt looks like it will last a few more seasons yet

There aren't any import taxes for KSA, (price is in £ because of site preferences) and on top of that VAT should be removed from the sale price for exports outside the EU. No idea what's going on - but if I go to the site as a UK user, I can buy it and get it delivered to KSA for £6.50, making the total cost about £51, roughly what it costs to buy from the Nike shop here

Im_Spartacus wrote:

Blue Since 76 wrote:

Im_Spartacus wrote:The plot thickens.....I wonder if this is to do with whether it is a 'Shirt' or a 'Replica Shirt' as per the England shirt. If it was the latter, you would have thought MCFC would make an attempt to explain the reason for the additional cost wouldn't you!

It is - they are £49.50 on the website, which is still a ridiculous price. I'm on my work VPN, which makes it think I'm not in the UK even though I am - iPlayer etc won't work. Not sure where it thinks I am, but it was still showing as £49.50. Is it something to do with import taxes, although in which case, I'm surprised the price is in £?

Thankfully my Umbro shirt looks like it will last a few more seasons yet

There aren't any import taxes for KSA, (price is in £ because of site preferences) and on top of that VAT should be removed from the sale price for exports outside the EU. No idea what's going on - but if I go to the site as a UK user, I can buy it and get it delivered to KSA for £6.50, making the total cost about £51, roughly what it costs to buy from the Nike shop here

It says £88.83 for me. Don't have a clue why it's 15p cheaper in Bosnia than Saudi Arabia...