• Bring on the Rings jacket
    Bring on the Rings jacket
    This is the "Bring on the Rings" zip front jacket from the Sega Shop in winter 2019.It's a black sporty style jacket with white stripes on the long sleeves, zip front, and all white ink design. However, it is rather costly at 71 dollars...why is it so expensive?On the back,…
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For Team Sonic Racing, the Sega Shop is offering something all-new: Personalization on an official item! How unusual...but is that a good thing? Either way, you can choose from a jersey of each of the 4 teams in the game.

Each has the team's colors, plus accent color for the edges & sleeves, plus a 'checkered flag' fade for the bottom. The shirts are not made of regular cotton/tee material, they're probably a lycra blend of some type. The back of the shirts in the photos display "Racer Name", so you could put your name, or, for value later, add a character's name instead like having "Shadow" on the Dark Speed one, or "Amy Rose".
It's a neat enough concept, but the combination of personalization and a more exotic fabric makes the shirts fairly costly at about 40 dollars each.
*Why might it not be a good thing?
Because bootleggers LOVE personalization. They use it as a huge tool to fool parents/grandparents into buying items with stolen art all over them. Some people love personalization, and will buy fake stuff just to have their name printed on it, as well. So: personalization was usually a very good indicator of fake stuff, because no official company bothered to offer it. (With the exception of a few party goods and possibly 1 mail offer exclusive) It's costly to do, and can be difficult, it also takes more time for a company to make money doing it. There's nothing inherently wrong with personalized stuff, but it just means to be double-sure to check for authenticity.

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