Actually if you guys know where all these chairs are manufactured and the price, you will know that these chairs are very overpriced.
From secretlab boxes, there is a description that shows "designed by secretlab, manufactured in china"
For all those claims saying secretlab is original bla bla..the qoo10 is not oem. Cmon. If you guys buy from taobao, u all know all these products are made in china. Basically just getting a china manufacturer to make it.
In fact if you browse taobao, you can find alot of gaming chairs designed by china's own branding or so called oem.secretlab chairs are PU leather right? Do you know you can find gaming chairs in taobao that are GENUINE Leather instead? Quality are so much better. Just that these chairs dont go through marketing and advertisements like how sg companies do it.
I browsed few GENUINE leather "gaming" chairs that are original made,designed by china manufacturers and it cost like only 680plus RMB dollars..which is like singapore $140 to $160? If u add in shipping by sea for example..u can get rates quoted at $99sgd for 1 cubic metre of items. Thats much larger den the gamng chair itself so u can order other stuffs from china together..so whats the final cost? Simple calculations.
Claiming chairs that are rip off or something makes no sense because they are originally created in china, designed in china. The one qoo10 is selling is the entry level ones in chna that cost retailprice probably around 60 to 70 sgd if u buy from taobao. The genuine leather premium chairs are 500rmb to 1000rmb. Still much cheaper.
Singaporeans are easily fooled by marketing tactics, video reviews etc whereas those china manufacturers dont do marketing internationally.
Why sg companies become rich? They just buy off china, import in and re sell in sg at a high premium. If not how to pay off the high rent in Singapore? Cost price of the chairs are dirt cheap but we in singapore are sucked in by professional marketing.
If you import stuff from china like from taobao, tmall etc..you will definitely know what a product is actually worth.
Of course when you pay a premium in sg, the company can obviously give you warranty for parts etc. Why? Because when you pay for something, that amount can actually probably buy u 3 x of the same product. The warranty and quality assurance of course able to provide since you consumers already pay 3 times of the actual product price. They can even swap you 1 for 1 chair since you are already paying overprice. If not how they earn right?
Not against any companies, of course they need to mark up high high and cut the consumers so that they can be rich.. but as hardwarezone forumners, we are all in the internet age, just giving heads up to you guys to share knowledge. Anything can be googled.
Bottomline, dont be suck in by marketing entirely. Of course for convenient sake, if you dont mind paying overprice goods, by all means, pay a premium price and contribute to other people's success.
Pay what is worth.