A €200 hoodie isn't "premium merch". For many European fans, that's 10–15% of a monthly salary. A €70 T-shirt is 3–5% of a month's income. You're not competing with other merch companies anymore : you're competing with rent, groceries and utility bills !!!
my first reaction when I saw the merch prices: perse on niin auki että sieluun asti tuulee, mistä vitusta mulla ois repiä muutama ylimääräinen satanen?!
I love how that expensive European merch has taught me so much about European swearing culture 🥹 some of your languages have such poetic ways of cursing
American Army trying to educate European's on our own tax systems is crazy
But taxes aside why was a zip hoodie for Jin £100 in London last August and less than a year later it's €200 for the same kind in Madrid (that's about £175)
In less than a year?!
A tee? £45 to now £65
catch me rock up to paris with a packet of these bad boys, my budget simply can't justify spending that much for a light stick that'll probably be outdated again by next tour
don’t hate me on this but as much as it hurts me i’d rather pay 75€ for a tshirt that i know im going to wear a lot than the army bomb that i’ll only use once. plus the concert will mostly be during daylight so..
Basically I read this as they can’t have the insanity of dynamic pricing in Europe like they do elsewhere so they’re clawing back through merch. They’ve added the shipping to individual items. The profit margins on these items is insane.
this is fucking ridiculous, high prices should come from quality of product and labour efforts - all these details about the items just tell me it's shit quality and probably rushed together in 20mins
Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.
And when all the stadiums in Europe will be filled with old Army B0mbs (that will be obsolete at that time) so that means no coordinated lights bc not everyone will be able to afford the new one at 70€. For exemple it costs 30€ in SK & around 55€ in USA