Fight Club Tyler Durden T-shirts?

[smirkingrevenge]

Although i wouldn't go as far as to say that Fight Club is dead, Max Cady selling out of all his clothes very quickly is testament to that, I have to agree that reselling at vastly inflated sums, which may have worked perhaps 8 years ago, is starting to be over saturated now. It does seem to me that the ebay thing isn't working, simply because anyone who is serious enough to know about these items probably know about it from here and there are probably 100s of lurkers we don't know about who see what we discuss and then go off and buy it.

The blacksugar guy has sold out pretty quickly of the tank tops. I only found out about it from here as I am sure a lot of other people did, and we have no idea what his initial run was. So unless someone bought 10 with the idea of reselling them, I don't think they're going to make much out of it really. I mean the Fight Club holy Grail jacket is the JAL and I got one for less than $200 last year. 8 years ago, I could have sold mine for a grand, easy. The bubble has burst. Unless it's an actual original find, replicas are only worth what you pay for them now. People are too wise to it. In my opinion.

 

[AJRand]

Fight Club is far from dead. The past couple of months we have had more awesome replicas produced than in the past few years. The black sugar tank top and the max caddy 2.0 track pants are completely awesome. The toucan he has is a little cartoony looking but still a good effort.

Also the black sugar tank top guy had over 500 individual pre-orders placed.at $100 per pre order The guy already made over $50,000 in gross. This doesn't account for orders that had multiple tanks ordered in one purchase. I don't know his profit margin but I cannot imagine tank tops cost too much to produce when ordered in mass like that.

 

[Soulinertia]

I doubt that very much Aj.

The FC community just isn't really that big.

 

[MattBlack]

Anyone going to Comic Con?

Chuck Palahniuk is going to promote Fight Club 2, and they are holding competitions for the best Tyler/Marla cosplay. Surely some of you guys have a shot at this!

 

[thequackdealer]

I'm sure people aren't making that much money by scamming people off of eBay, but it still is embarrassing when it comes from this forum. I don't mind paying more for an item, but that is because the people selling the item put in the work. Soul, BlackSugar, and MaxCady's are doing the groundwork and getting all of this stuff made. Some have decided to take advantage of these guys, and it really is sad. As for Fight Club being dead. No way, fight club replicas may be dying down in sales but this movie still gets talked about more than new films and it came out in 1999.

 

[Soulinertia]

Fight Club will never die! It will remain cult classic status for generations to come.

 

[Danman]

What I meant by fight club being dead is it's moral and its message is dead as far as I'm concerned. I now feel that, and I know you're gonna hate me for this, but if people are going to go ahead and list these items on eBay for $300-$400 more than the manufacturers are charging than you guys, the hard workings facturers should raise the price too

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Of course the film itself, the acting, directing and story will never die. But the message is lost

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Oh and don't include max cady in this. The guy sells his products extremely low priced and even a non-fight club fan would jump all over his products

 

[Danman]

If I were soul revolver and could manufacturer a 100% screen accurate replica of the motocross shirt and the black sugar tank, I'd sell them on a made to order basis and charge $500 for them

 

[AJRand]

I doubt that very much Aj.

The FC community just isn't really that big.

The guy took pre-orders for over 8 months and had approximately 400 orders. Fight Club is not just limited to USA. It is quite popular around the world.

 

[AJRand]

If I were soul revolver and could manufacturer a 100% screen accurate replica of the motocross shirt and the black sugar tank, I'd sell them on a made to order basis and charge $500 for them

The problem is at a price that high very few people would buy them. You may sell 1 for every 50 people. You lower the price to 100 bucks and you sell like 25 for every 50 people.

 

[thequackdealer]

The problem is at a price that high very few people would buy them. You may sell 1 for every 50 people. You lower the price to 100 bucks and you sell like 25 for every 50 people.

It's not like he can make the things for 20 dollars. He has to design the whole damn thing, and print it which is very intricate when it is an all over print shirt, and his are 100% SA. Kiss Clothing sells items more in the 100 dollar range, but they aren't accurate, and they have a full time business in making clothing. Most of his stuff is 150-250 anyways.

 

[Soulinertia]

The guy took pre-orders for over 8 months and had approximately 400 orders. Fight Club is not just limited to USA. It is quite popular around the world.

Where are you getting these numbers?

I know the world market when it comes to FC. Half my customers order from overseas.

 

[Danman]

The problem is at a price that high very few people would buy them. You may sell 1 for every 50 people. You lower the price to 100 bucks and you sell like 25 for every 50 people.

Yes, very few people will buy them but he will avoid having his product sold for $200 more than he sold it for. Whoever can afford it will get one and whoever can't, wont. That's why I said they would be made to order

 

[KorrickUSCM]

He can always just start selling on eBay......

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[thequackdealer]

He can always just start selling on eBay......

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He already does...

 

[AJRand]

Where are you getting these numbers?

I know the world market when it comes to FC. Half my customers order from overseas.

By order numbers, his first order number was 1.

 

[KorrickUSCM]

The black sugar guy? So why are people upset about others selling his shirt?

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[thequackdealer]

The black sugar guy? So why are people upset about others selling his shirt?

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Oh no, I thought you meant soul. The black sugar guy isn't on eBay yet. Even if he was on eBay he still has a right to be upset about it, he put hard work into making them. I'm upset because now he is going to increase his prices because of the scammers.

 

[AJRand]

Yes, very few people will buy them but he will avoid having his product sold for $200 more than he sold it for. Whoever can afford it will get one and whoever can't, wont. That's why I said they would be made to order

That shouldn't matter though, the original creator already got the profits. If I buy something from you and sell it to another person, you still made your money, regardless if the person bought it from me or you. The only exceptions would be if I sold you something, you sold it to another person, then that person sold it to another or if the person was going to buy more than one but decided to buy one due to the marked up price.

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Oh no, I thought you meant soul. The black sugar guy isn't on eBay yet. Even if he was on eBay he still has a right to be upset about it, he put hard work into making them. I'm upset because now he is increasing his prices because of the scammers.

And where did you get this information from? His pre-order price was 99.00 USD and his price was going up to 149.00 after pre-orders. His website stated this for months. It was the entire incentive to pre-order and save 50$.

Unless he is again raising his prices but viewing his website it says 149.00

 

[thequackdealer]

That shouldn't matter though, the original creator already got the profits. If I buy something from you and sell it to another person, you still made your money, regardless if the person bought it from me or you. The only exceptions would be if I sold you something, you sold it to another person, then that person sold it to another or if the person was going to buy more than one but decided to buy one due to the marked up price.

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And where did you get this information from? His pre-order price was 99.00 USD and his price was going up to 149.00 after pre-orders. His website stated this for months. It was the entire incentive to pre-order and save 50$.

Unless he is again raising his prices but viewing his website it says 149.00

Okay. I'm just going to say it. Obviously you keep defending this because you are the guy buying peoples items and selling them for more on eBay. Either that or your evil twin brother is conducting a eBay page with you in all the photos. The problem with this is the people who make these items put a lot of work into it, and usually try to sell them at the most reasonable price that they can. I would be very surprised if this guy is able to get these shirts made for under 50 dollars a pop. So he is making max 100$ profit. You are buying his items, and selling them for double what you paid. All you did is enter your credit card info, and wait for it to arrive at your house. He designed the whole thing, and worked with a factory to produce it. HE DID ALL THE WORK. As far as him raising the prices. It's bound to happen, if he sees you selling his stuff for double what he's getting then he will most definitely raise the prices. What you are doing isn't illegal, but I think it's pretty shallow. If it makes you feel good about yourself then great, but I hold myself to a higher standard. If you weren't doing this merely for personal gain I would understand. ie: unloading a collection. But you clearly have made a mini business out of doing this. People will get wise, and buy from the creators eventually. I just don't understand why you don't put all this energy you have into creating something on your own, rather than riding on peoples coat tails.