Originally Posted by stoppit

my dad's cousin works in international sales for a factory in Pakistan that produce for UK and Europe. they supply to the big department stores. when he comes here for meetings with purchasers, he leaves the samples with us - i've had the stuff that was later sold in John Lewis, French Connection etc!

watch this space, actually. he was here a few weeks ago and him and my dad were talking about buying the all stuff the factory have left over and selling it here, i may well put some up on here if they ever do that. you would be amazed if you knew the markup of things like this just after the stores put their labels on.