Branded goods have better quality control even if it's discounted. It's not wrong to buy one. Your colleague is shallow if she just thinks buying a branded product is mainly for the name.

But beware though, every items have its lifespan/expiry date. If you buy discounted items, you should know what kind of discounted item it is.

-old stocks, beware of the quality. Ie: leather will spoilt(cracks/moldy), glue get yellowish, steels get rusty.. etc in several years without proper maintenance.

-rejected stocks, well you know.. It got rejected for a reason. Better find out why is it rejected and whether u can accept or not

-lower quality of items. New items are sold as discounted items for the sake of Sales event, ie Raya sales, Cny sales, Megasales etc. For this case, lower quality aka cheaper materials are use for these items to maintain the profits. So choose wisely.

Well this is what i can share. There could be more that i didnt know.

This post has been edited by apocalypxe: Aug 6 2012, 10:37 PM