Walmart selling Stealth hoodies

[Don Beto]

They call it Tech Fleece lol. thoughts?

[Animal901]

Wow.....

[SenKa]

Does not surprise me one bit, once you come up with a design that is manufactured in china (and I am assuming this is where LMG is buying them from?), its basically open season.

[NumLock21]

Why is is called stealth hoodie?
When I wear it, I'm undetectable by radar?

[Skiiwee29]

Similar, but no where near the same. Different pockets, completely different colors.. yes I know its black and grey, but look no where near identical... wrist cuffs are different.. while the chest area is similar, IMO its the only part thats similar. 

[minibois]

It's a similar design - but come on.. It's a gray hoodie with some gray shape on it..

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

Why is is called stealth hoodie?
When I wear it, I'm undetectable by radar?

Hmm.. Must resist urge to make a joke about being a nerd and being invisible to the opposite gender...

[amdorintel]

that is so true, their entire culture is counterfeiting and authorities let them get away with it

no protections at all, none

 

25 minutes ago, SenKa said:

Does not surprise me one bit, once you come up with a design that is manufactured in china (and I am assuming this is where LMG is buying them from?), its basically open season.

 

 

 

 

[Blue4130]

48 minutes ago, amdorintel said:

that is so true, their entire culture is counterfeiting and authorities let them get away with it

no protections at all, none

 

 

 

 

 

Uhhh, I hope you realize that LTT didn't come up with the design of the hoodie. They simply found it in always supplier catalog and added their logo to it. The way these factories work is that they have a generic design catalog of pieces that they can make, individuals or other companies like LTT can view the catalog and decide what they want their logo on. Other companies can do the same thing using the same garment, unless the initial person pays for exclusivity (which would be a huge sum of money that I doubt LTT would pay) 

 

Nobody is copying anyone else, they are simply using the same supplier. 

[Founders]

1 hour ago, Caroline said:

$17 vs $60

 

And Walmart is making a profit by selling it at that price. Let that sink in for a moment.

Linus has to pay the bills some how, YT ad revenue isn't worth much anymore. In video ad's, sponsored videos, and merchandise are a channels life blood these days. If you like a channel you may choose to support it by buying something from their store with the understanding a portion is going back to support it. Walmart is just a hot pile of garbage anyway you look at it. 

[TheKDub]

1 hour ago, Caroline said:

$17 vs $60

 

And Walmart is making a profit by selling it at that price. Let that sink in for a moment.

It's not the LTT "Stealth" Hoodie, it's just one with a vaguely similar design.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if the Walmart one uses trash materials and is poor quality in general compared to the LTT hoodie.

[SaviorSix]

2 hours ago, Caroline said:

$17 vs $60

 

And Walmart is making a profit by selling it at that price. Let that sink in for a moment.

Yep. Clothing has some of the highest margins.

Also, it doesn't surprise me. This design isn't new. LTT probably saw it and said "print our stuff on it!"

[Drak3]

Generic design is generic.

[Tieox]

I blame goldfish. 

[Roswell]

1 hour ago, Ehmc130 said:

Linus has to pay the bills some how, YT ad revenue isn't worth much anymore. In video ad's, sponsored videos, and merchandise are a channels life blood these days. If you like a channel you may choose to support it by buying something from their store with the understanding a portion is going back to support it. Walmart is just a hot pile of garbage anyway you look at it. 

With their volume and crazy high CPM, they're pulling millions in ad revenue every year. Not to mention that similar sized channels have revealed six figure sponsorship prices. They're definitely not hard up for money, their clothing is just overpriced because they know people will buy it anyway.

[amdorintel]

1 hour ago, Vitamanic said:

people will buy it anyway.

.....made in sweat shops in 3rd world countries for pennies, then shipped by container ship which is cheap, then drop shipped or however they do it.

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, SaviorSix said:

Clothing has some of the highest margins.

 

clothing, alcohol, perfume

 

 

3 hours ago, Ehmc130 said:

Linus has to pay the bills some how, YT ad revenue isn't worth much anymore. In video ad's, sponsored videos, and merchandise are a channels life blood these days. If you like a channel you may choose to support it by buying something from their store with the understanding a portion is going back to support it. Walmart is just a hot pile of garbage anyway you look at it. 

you nailed it, but i think their is certainly an image linus must portray to keep the image going. does he still own the pink lamborgini? he cant go around flashing rolex watches and driving merc/beamers, on camera anyway.

 

[kpluck]

Hoodies don't have zippers.  Don't know what those are.

 

The bigger question, is everything in the LTT shop so overpriced? WTF??

 

-kp

[Zando_]

8 minutes ago, kpluck said:

Hoodies don't have zippers.  Don't know what those are.

 

The bigger question, is everything in the LTT shop so overpriced? WTF??

 

-kp

They're not overpriced, from what I've seen from others who got the stealth hoodie or swacket, they're just very well made. Aka actually nice clothes vs walmart shit, that's mostly the reason they cost more. A small part of it is probably due to smaller batches as well (LTT can't order in the volume walmart can). 

[Dedayog]

17 hours ago, amdorintel said:

that is so true, their entire culture is counterfeiting and authorities let them get away with it

no protections at all, none

 

 

 

 

 

It's not that there are no protections, it's that the State does the copying/theft as well.

 

The entire country ignore trademarks and copyrights.

[DavidKalinowski]

20 hours ago, Caroline said:

$17 vs $60

 

And Walmart is making a profit by selling it at that price. Let that sink in for a moment.

Keep in mind walmart is also buying them by the millions so they are getting an entire factory run and as such gets a volume discount. (and a fairly large discount most likely.) I used to work at a walmart, the mark up one items was ludicrous while on others it was selling at a loss. most TVs and electronics where single digit markup, TVs especially. it was not uncommon to lose 2-5% per TV, but make it up on movies at 15-20% profit, or HDMI cables at 50-75% profit. I didn't work in the clothing depts, but I'm willing to bet they got 25-30% profit.

[kokakolia]

On 11/7/2019 at 5:37 AM, amdorintel said:

 

On 11/7/2019 at 3:34 AM, SaviorSix said:

Yep. Clothing has some of the highest margins.

Also, it doesn't surprise me. This design isn't new. LTT probably saw it and said "print our stuff on it!"

clothing, alcohol, perfume

Nothing in the world, not even L. Ron Hubbards "litterature", trumps printer ink for highest margins. 

[thedangerine]

I much prefer the stealth hoodie, I know it costs more but I don't see it falling apart over time, there are pockets and the small phone pocket is super nice too

[jGD]

There is no way the wall-e-world version is anywhere as nice. Not even nice colors on it Really bland.

[Arika]

17 minutes ago, jGD said:

Not even nice colors on it Really bland.

they're both grey and black...

[amdorintel]

17 hours ago, kokakolia said:

Nothing in the world, not even L. Ron Hubbards "litterature", trumps printer ink for highest margins. 

generic ink

and diy fill ink is pretty cheap

and easily attainable

[mr moose]

On 11/7/2019 at 9:55 AM, amdorintel said:

that is so true, their entire culture is counterfeiting and authorities let them get away with it

no protections at all, none

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think you will find that counterfeit goods are not the entirety of their culture.  In fact if you ever meet someone who has spent any significant time in China you will find out that the average Chinese person is no more entitled, greedy or theifish than you average American. 

 

The bulk of their trade is from legitimate manufacturing, problems with counterfeit goods might be a problem at large, but to try and describe is as the entirety of their culture is foolish and uneducated.