technovox
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I have an early Taubers just like this one, and about the same smaller size for sale if anyone is interested. No label, but it's the exact same design. $175.
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TheOldFashioned
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What a beautiful jacket! I wonder how old that Lesco is? Doesn't have the usual gigantic gussets. Collar setup is also nicer than the usual.
32oz!?!??
I have to know. That’s literally like wearing a denim bag of cement. BIN
This has you written all over it as well:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sugarcan...799457?hash=item34227b35e1:g:XNMAAOSw-rReSyVg
This new seller on eBay has a bunch of nice things at what seems to be very reasonable prices, you guys should check it out.
SinSir
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Am I the only one that is bothered by this brands name? I see it often but not a fan of the name. Stupid I know but any reason to say no is a good reason. I need more of them. I can't say yes all the time
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Claybertrand
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You are not alone. I'm bothered by the name as well. Not the way to market a product IMO. Bob Dong!?!?!?!?! C'mon man!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The brand should be called ROBERT DONG................ Bob is way too informal.....
SinSir
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Part of an explanation from a seller I recieved why shipping from the UK to US is £52 for a non jacket shipment, lighter and smaller, through ebay international. I don't post out of US through ebay as a seller but do buy international. May be old news but may be helpful to others.
I only post to the UK - and I charge £3.90
Any postage further afield is done by eBay international postage and they charge their own charges over which I have no control. I post to eBay within the uk and they post on.
I had no idea the charge to the states was this high - as I say it is not me that is charging for postage.
I only post to the UK - and I charge £3.90
Any postage further afield is done by eBay international postage and they charge their own charges over which I have no control. I post to eBay within the uk and they post on.
I had no idea the charge to the states was this high - as I say it is not me that is charging for postage.
SinSir
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You are not alone. I'm bothered by the name as well. Not the way to market a product IMO. Bob Dong!?!?!?!?! C'mon man!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The brand should be called ROBERT DONG................ Bob is way too informal.....
I couldn't agree more. Its a shame too because their heavy denim shows up in my searches frequently only to pass every time. I've been close to buying several times but couldn't do it. Even though its not really the same as sterotypical chinese knockoff stuff it reminds me of when I stumbled on the HiPhone years ago for whatever reason.
Claybertrand
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I buy international as well and I believe I have never bought something shipped thru eBay Global Shipping Service. Typically I buy from the UK when I buy from abroad and items from the UK seem to arrive faster than even domestic shipments with their Royal Mail.
To give you a bit of perspective from the flip side though---i.e. the Seller side, when I sell, I do not use the Global Shipping Program and do not quote International Shipping costs in the listing. Rather, I state that I will ship anywhere and will provide a specific International Shipping quote (upon request) from USPS because its less costly. I'm sure others can further enlighten on this, but when you use the GSP w eBay, you ship your item to Kentucky, and eBay takes it from there essentially. I have found it to be much more costly for the buyer. I tried using it a couple years ago and I had buyers in Spain and France both balk at the shipping cost.
If your package doesn't exceed the dimensional limit (which is something odd like 31 or 33 total inches when you combine Height, Length and Width measurements of the package) you get much better rates directly with USPS than w eBay. Ebay is great for domestic shipping in providing USPS discounts when you purchase USPS shipping thru eBay. But international through their GSP is pricey.
Their Global Shipping Program is easier for a Seller who does regular business on eBay. I just sell a few things here and there so for me, given buyers often find the costs too high, I just use USPS and its not that complicated. I've sent items to UK, France, Norway, Canada, Bulgaria, and Oz (Tasmania) without too much hassle and it saved the buyers a good chunk of money each time allowing them to purchase my items when they otherwise wouldn't. Many countries have customs paperwork that needs to be completed and duties owed by the buyers when they pick the item up at their Customs office. Even Canada has duties. I believe it was Spain that has (or had) some BS that second hand clothes need to have a Certification of Disinfection to pass into the country and be released by Customs. Its these weird additional hoops that eBay makes easier with their GSP. If I was selling widgets internationally and moving volume I might use the GSP and just build it into the item price somehow.
Bottom Line: GSP has its advantages for some but it IS MORE COSTLY than regular shipping. That is what you are seeing with this UK Seller.
Claybertrand
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I'm not trying to make light of a very serious situation, but I have had pause in purchasing from China lately wondering if the Coronavirus can be passed via items touched by infected individuals. I am not trying to create a hysteria here at all. It just seems that since so little is known about how long the virus survives on some item when an infected person touches it or sneezes or coughs on or around it, I have moderate reservations about buying from China at this time. I will say, one would assume if shipments could spread the virus, half the world would have it by now---but it still gives me some pause.
Not to mention that shipping out of China, at least commercial shipping, has already been greatly affected by the situation. I've got friends who work different areas of Construction and they have been told to take a week or two vacation because the cabinets they are installing or the stone or X or Y hasn't been shipped yet and is indefinitely behind schedule.
I agree that the knock off type products coming out of China are improving in their......Appeal. You can find things that aren't as cheesy as in the past if that makes sense.
In this maker's case, maybe they should just drop the first name BOB altogether and just go with "DONG". When one gets one of their really thick new denim jackets, they can report that they "...just received a new DONG in the mail and man is it stiff!!!!!!"
In all seriousness, if I designed clothing and wanted to sell it in a foreign market, and my last name was slang for Penis in that foreign market, instead of insisting on MY NAME being on the product, I would find something else to call it--preferably, something non phallic.
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SinSir
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In this maker's case, maybe they should just drop the first name BOB altogether and just go with "DONG". When one gets one of their really thick new denim jackets, they can report that they "...just received a new DONG in the mail and man is it stiff!!!!!!"
In all seriousness, if I designed clothing and wanted to sell it in a foreign market, and my last name was slang for Penis in that foreign market, instead of insisting on MY NAME being on the product, I would find something else to call it--preferably, something non phallic.
Thats hilarious! I cant help but agree
-Long Duk Dong
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This reminds me of the Ford Pinto and Chevy Nova jokes I read some time ago.
Claybertrand
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Yeah.....naming a product something that will be best received by Consumers does not always seem to be well thought out by businesses.
In the U.S. about 35-40 years ago before the mainstream identification of the disease, there was a chocolate flavored Diet Bar that was supposed to be an appetite suppressant I believe to help with weight loss. This product was called "AIDS".
I'm guessing this product is no longer available.......
Here in the U.S. (perhaps worldwide too) we use a neutral cooking oil that comes predominantly from Canada called CANOLA OIL. That is a trade name developed to allow the oil to be better marketed in English speaking countries. This name combines CANADA and OIL to come up with "CANOLA". If named for the plant the oil is derived from, it would be called RAPE-SEED OIL.
Yikes!!!!!!!!Finally, in my town, there was a pretty good Sushi/Japanese food restaurant that may or may not be open still (I think it has closed). It was named to try to explain the Japanese/American Fusion of the cuisine sold there. So they decided to combine Japan and the U.S. in their name. So it was called "JAPANUS". Japan+US......... seemed like a good idea. But it can be read and pronounced as "JAP-ANUS" which is NOT very appetizing.
If you are gonna sell something, ya gotta consider your market and think it through!!!!!!!!!
Bfd70
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Fwiw I’ve purchased from that ebay seller before and it was a good experience. Yes I bought the dong and it was a good experience.
We had a whole thread on Bob Dong. I think it was shut down. But not before I was able to declare 21oz cotton duck pants with a 36” inseam. Long duck dong. I’m still proud of that.
