&gt;&gt; So I end up paying twice for each item I buy? Nice.<p>Not if you believe that you underpaid for it in the first place.<p>&gt;&gt; My experience is that clothes and particularly shoes that I buy which were manufactured in Europe<p>I was under impression that those were not available to you from your earlier posts. In that case, you can simply choose to pay more for European clothes of higher quality, so not sure what the problem is.