Anyone here is a thrifer?

You can get better quality for 1/10 of the price

What brand names are 1/10 equivalent of a Gucci with better quality

@james lots of complaints on their purses. Clothe wise. I don’t like to wear logo clothes. Free advertisement for them.

@athena it's very rare for women to not care about brand names. Having a Gucci bag is a sign to other women of status.

@james

In my experience Asians place more importance on brandname of everything. For the men, cars. The women, fashion. There is a correlation between brand and quality but I think only to a degree. I notice from watching YouTube videos that Asian women are over represented in Luxury bag reviews. 

check out this woman 20k haul.

how to make a fun subject boring. Below is an article of luxury brands and Asian. 
https://theconversation.com/consumers-in-asia-buy-luxuries-for-different-reasons-to-the-west-45069

From Louis Vuitton to Chanel, Rolls Royce to Johnny Walker, Asian markets have become vital for the growth of luxury brands. Asia turned over some $90bn (£58bn) in luxuries in 2014 according to Euromonitor, roughly tied with North America and not far behind Western Europe. The region is also forecast to be the main driver for growth among these big markets over the next five years, as the chart below suggests.

But there’s a paradox. The marketing strategies for many luxury brands are not producing the desired returns in that part of the world. So what’s the problem – and what can be done about it?

We all buy and consume what we believe offers value. It is one of the fundamental drivers of people’s purchasing decisions. For products that we buy regularly, the value that we perceive is largely a trade-off between what it costs, mainly in terms of price, and the benefits in terms of how useful it is. In other words the more useful a product to us, the higher the price we are willing to pay.

With luxury goods this equation becomes more complex. Here the costs are high and the benefits are not just about utility, but much more about personal pleasure and social status. But what many luxury businesses don’t understand well enough is how this varies between different countries.

Forecast growth in luxuries to 2019

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Many a time on my travels I have seen the same adverts, messages and communications employed by luxury brands across the world to serve vastly different markets. Sure enough, analysts say one key reason why some luxury brandsunderperform in Asia is because their owners see Asian and Western markets as homogenous.

It seems many luxury businesses have erred in believing in the universality of their brand’s message. This is baffling when analysts and researchers like me tend to emphasise the diversity of individual markets in terms of geography, demography, culture and consumption patterns. To find out more about the distinctions in relation to luxuries, my co-authors and I asked 900 luxury consumers about how they see the value of such products in the UK and in leading emerging luxury markets including India, China and Indonesia