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iammakeupaddict /img/forum/go_quote.gif I disagree. That's the point of a reseller. Everyone in the supply chain from the manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, reseller, etc etc. Some links in the supply chain will add value from doing something to change the original product while others provide value such as transportation, packaging, and labeling, all of which require additional resources and incur additional costs. If it's wrong to sell the same items for more money, every reseller is committing the same wrong from Nordstroms to Walmart to the corner liquer store when the same product is available for cheaper at Costco.
In this case, like Costco, TKB is a wholesaler that happen to also sell to the public. So as consumers, we can choose to buy products in quantity from TKB in baggies and jars/sifters in quantity and repackage ourselves or a sifter packaged in a more manageable quantity from a reseller. I don't think it's "wrong" for these resellers to repackage and resell products at retail prices so long as they do not claim to be selling uniquely formulated products created by the reseller themselves.
It is also possible that some of these resellers created dups of each others products. The formula may differ although the appearance is similar. It's up to us as consumers to decide who best to purchase from. Food for thought.
Yeah, you're rigth too but like I said before, for a girl livng outside US, TKB is less expensive and more ethics. Because many retailers didn't say it, many say that's their colors are uniques and it's not true. They buy the same color with a good base in it for the "good compagny" and only the same mica color with no good base for the "bad compagny".
This is this behavior that's irritated me, because it's not true at all. And I don't want to paid more only because the product has been a repackage.
Now, if I'm living in the US, shipping is generaly free and they are no taxes on products, it would be less disturbing.
lol no, no, I don't have anything against BFTE, except, I don't believe the owner when she said "she made unique colors", so I say it, this is wrong ? I don't think so
And I don't work in this industry lol I'm living in Belgium and I work n departement of justice, "ceci explique peut-être cela"
For unique color, I find them
With Fyrinnae, ArchetypeCosmetics, etc
But I don't test every brands, so I think they are many unique colors ("heureusment").
TuscanGirl09, I don't understand nothing with Oprah, can you explain your comments ? Thank you. And like I said, if the owner say she make unique color but this is similar (very similar) to others brands, it is a problem not? Especially if the product is more expensively sold.