Before we begin, don’t gloss over that $332.99 price tag.
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Interesting paragraph in Uni Watch the other day about NBA jersey retailers.
If I am good at reading comprehension (and I may not be) it sounds like NBA jerseys will soon be available from a smaller circle of retailers.
As you may have noticed, the folks at Fanatics have done deals with may of the sports leagues, including MLB, and the Uni Watch piece makes me wonder if Mets jerseys might become more rare in stores.
You may have experienced, as I have, that the shipping reliability at the Official MLB Shop, now run by Fanatics, is not what it once was (as an example, the Mets playoff merch coming after the playoffs). I’ve also experienced the Phantom Jersey – where something was advertised, in my experience some sort of throwback, and then weeks and weeks later I wad told the jersey order is canceled (I speculate because they didn’t sell many thus didn’t make them.)
Along the way, there has been price creep and price CREEP. I’ve seen jerseys in the $300s. The cheaper jerseys are now seem to be more in the $119 range than the $99 range.
And…there’s the Diaper Jersey which makes those less expensive jerseys completely unappealing.
I bought A LOT of jerseys in the 2010s. I think I bought one all of 2016 (a Murphy All Star Game jersey).
Has the Golden Age of jersey buying ended? And is that a bad thing?
