They're Not Real...Or Spectacular

I showed my students this piece about counterfeit NFL jerseys.  I knew that they are out there, of course, but I thought fake jerseys were confined mainly to the outside of football stadiums.  I should've figured that some counterfeiters have their own websites that look remarkably like the NFLShop.com site.

It's a given that counterfeiting is wrong, but $200 for a jersey does seem a bit much.  Just as a 20-year-old CD shouldn't cost $17.99.  Some of these pricing decisions push consumers away from the real product and to a knockoff at a quarter of the price.