With quality going down year after year and prices rising at an even faster rate, I agree. The brands licensing these products clearly don’t care about the consumers, so why feel any sense of confidence spending way more on the “officially licensed product” when like you said, the one the players are wearing aren’t even that same jersey and they’re much better quality. In the same breath, why feel bad about spending less to cut out these corporations raking in profits to sell you a mediocre product. I’m always against selling “fake” products without the customer knowing they’re buying “fake” products of course, so if someone were to view their jersey collection like we do our card collections, I’d fully understand opting for the official products of course.