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Who shops at Kathmandu? 24-Mar-2012 At 1:16:27 PM Andrew_M

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On 23/03/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>And next up, in our winter pounce-wear range we have Jelmer modelling
>a $1000 jacket from Arc'ter'yxz.

Most of the price for arcteryx gear is almost certainly the importer price gouging. I'm in Canada at the moment and prices for arcteryx are comparable to patagonia, north face etc. A mate has been trying to get a specific Arcteryx jacket in Aus, but they won't ship direct to Aus and have banned canadian/us retailers from doing the same - the ACCC should check into this.

As for Kathmandu...some of the old stuff from 10+ years ago at least was pretty decent. I've still got a couple of their tents that are still going strong - despite being trashed and patched a dozen times over. The mountain tent was just a rip off of the wild country quasar and the construction is actually pretty good. Surely these wouldn't have changed too much unless they've really gone cheap on the manufacturing?

As for thermals and stuff...always cheap and cheerful. Who cares where they're from...