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Mine were definitely more like your gloves on the right, but I don't remember the black outline on the numbers (my pair was black - I can check this weekend).
See, price gouging may be in unregulated capitalism, but regulated capitalism is the only thing that works so far.
And Winning distributors are definitely price gouging.
This is the winning price in Japan (from this year's Winning catalog on the official Japanese page):
Japanese exchange rate is 150Y to the dollar.
Means these gloves should be under $300, but these distributors are having insane markup.
While it might be hyperbole, there is some truth to what I said.
For me, they're not good gloves. I'm not just balking at the price or the wait times.
I don't like the fit, I don't like the leather, I don't like the wrist support, and I just don't like how they perform.
They were absolutely terrible on the bags I used.
Kept them around for years as sparring gloves, but that was just trying to get money out of an expensive purchase more than actually liking the product.
Tried to use them for anything but sparring many times over those years, but they underperformed for me.
This entire issue I'm on about is because I was trying to see if maybe my last pair were defective, because I couldn't get over how overrated they are.
I sold those gloves and the guy I sold them to doesn't even use them or like them (he bought them from me when his winning 14s split the length of the cuff).
There's always so much peer pressure from people to get them, especially for me being from Japan, so I decided to give it another shot.
While trying to give them another chance, I run into this situation.
For me, definitely not worth the hassle, definitely not worth the inflated price, definitely not worth the long wait, and definitely not worth the rudeness.
Customer choice very much IS capitalism.
I can get a better glove experience that suits me better from other brands without all the nonsense.
I'm not buying into the peer pressure anymore. I don't have to like them. I'm not going to be clowned for pointing out that the gloves I bought from them underperformed.
It was definitely hyperbole in response to being accused of preferring socialism.Saying that Winning are not good gloves because you had some bad email from their service is a little exigerate
See, price gouging may be in unregulated capitalism, but regulated capitalism is the only thing that works so far.
And Winning distributors are definitely price gouging.
This is the winning price in Japan (from this year's Winning catalog on the official Japanese page):
Japanese exchange rate is 150Y to the dollar.
Means these gloves should be under $300, but these distributors are having insane markup.
While it might be hyperbole, there is some truth to what I said.
For me, they're not good gloves. I'm not just balking at the price or the wait times.
I don't like the fit, I don't like the leather, I don't like the wrist support, and I just don't like how they perform.
They were absolutely terrible on the bags I used.
Kept them around for years as sparring gloves, but that was just trying to get money out of an expensive purchase more than actually liking the product.
Tried to use them for anything but sparring many times over those years, but they underperformed for me.
This entire issue I'm on about is because I was trying to see if maybe my last pair were defective, because I couldn't get over how overrated they are.
I sold those gloves and the guy I sold them to doesn't even use them or like them (he bought them from me when his winning 14s split the length of the cuff).
There's always so much peer pressure from people to get them, especially for me being from Japan, so I decided to give it another shot.
While trying to give them another chance, I run into this situation.
For me, definitely not worth the hassle, definitely not worth the inflated price, definitely not worth the long wait, and definitely not worth the rudeness.
Customer choice very much IS capitalism.
I can get a better glove experience that suits me better from other brands without all the nonsense.
I'm not buying into the peer pressure anymore. I don't have to like them. I'm not going to be clowned for pointing out that the gloves I bought from them underperformed.