Are Rothco's Battle Dress Uniforms (BDU's) a rip-off? Rothco vs Propper, TacticalGearTrade/Airsoft-Club.com, TruSpec, Ur-Tactical, AR500 Armor, Spartan Armor Systems, & Infidel BodyArmor. An open message to Rothco.

Rothco's either 65/35% polyester/cotton and 55/45% cotton/polyester Battle Dress Uniform coats, pants, and shorts cost $38.99 a piece, regardless of the color or camouflage pattern used (except for Smokey Branch, which costs $40.99 a piece, or MultiCam, which costs $99.99 for the blouse and $112.99 for the pants);
https://www.rothco.com/search/keyword/BDU/all.

Now, that doesn't seem too unreasonable, does it?

But wait! Let's compare it to the offerings of other companies.

Propper, which costs ranging from $24.99 for 60/40% cotton/polyester BDU's to $29.99, and $29.99 for 100% cotton BDU's to $44.99 for 65/35% polyester/cotton A-TACS BDU's;
https://www.propper.com/catalogsearch/result/index/?dir=asc&limit=all&order=price&q=BDU

TruSpec, which costs $35.95 for the most part (including 100% cotton), $67.95 for MultiCam, and $53.95 for All Terrain Tiger Stripe.
https://www.truspec.com/uniforms/battle-dress-uniform-bdu
https://www.truspec.com/uniforms/shorts/bdu-shorts/

Propper's Army Combat Uniforms, with 65/35% polyester/cotton and 50/50 NYCO/cotton MultiCam or A-TACS costing either $39.99, $54.99, $64.99 $69.99, or $79.99 a piece;
https://www.propper.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=ACU

TruSpec's Tactical Response Uniforms (which appear to be copies of, or at least very similar to, ACU's), in which the MultiCam costs $84.95 a piece (except for the 1/4 Zip combat shirt, which the MultiCam costs $81.95 each);
https://www.truspec.com/uniforms/tactical-response-uniform-tru/

Even TruSpec's TRU Xtreme line costs $100.95 a piece, which is still a better deal than what Rothco offers (TRU Xtreme pants are even cheaper than Rothco's MultiCam pants);
https://www.truspec.com/uniforms/tru-xtreme.

TacticalGearTrade.com offers individual camouflage pants and blouses that cost under $51 a piece (though warning, the quality, especially the durability, may not be very good, considering this is mostly sold to airsofters), which are made by Royal Military Surplus;
https://www.tacticalgeartrade.com/tactical-gear/clothing-bdu.html.

Airsoft-Club.com sells uniforms sell for even less;
http://airsoft-club.com/shop/tactical-gear/clothing-bdu/uniform.

UR-Tactical is also selling Integrated Battle Shirts for $95 a piece, and their Advanced Response Pants cost $118 a piece, which is less than what Rothco sells their BDU pants for;
http://www.ur-tactical.com/index.php/component/virtuemart/view/category/virtuemart_category_id/121


If you search on Amazon and Ebay, search up "G3 Combat", and you'll find Chinese and other foreign clones of Crye Precision Combat shirts and pants and Field shirts and pants;
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=G3+combat+shirt&s=price-desc-rank&qid=1591899829&ref=sr_st_price-desc-rank
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=G3+combat+pants&s=price-desc-rank&qid=1591900297&ref=sr_st_price-desc-rank
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=G3+combat&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&LH_ItemCondition=3&_sop=16


If you can, avoid clothing that contains polyester, since it can melt to one's skin if exposed to enough heat (such as in the cases of flames, explosions, etc).

Rothco also sells a polyester plate carrier for $89.99 a piece, and a MultiCam plate carrier made out of 1000 denier Cordua nylon for $172.99 a piece;
https://www.rothco.com/product/rothco-molle-plate-carrier-vest
https://www.rothco.com/product/rothco-molle-plate-carrier-vest-multicam

But other companies, such as AR500 Armor Plate Carriers, Spartan Armor Systems, and Infidel Body Armor offer plate carriers for comparable or even lower prices, and at higher quality at that;
https://www.ar500armor.com/plate-carriers/plate-carriers-en.html
https://www.spartanarmorsystems.com/add-ons-tactical-gear/plate-carriers/?sort=priceasc
https://infidelbodyarmor.com/carriers-armor-c-18/?page=1&sort=3a .

I feel like that Rothco mainly makes money on the wholesale market and selling generic products.
I cannot belive that Crye Precision allows Rothco to use their Multicam pattern on Rothco's overpriced products that have questionable quality.

Rothco, if you want positive reviews, then do one or more of the following to make deals better:
- Increase the quality of the products that you sell.
- Reduce the price to under that of your competitors.
- Sell bulk for very low prices.

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Bonus:

Have you wondered why so many price tags end in .99? Well, this video explains that;

Note to regular blog readers;

I'm sorry that I haven't made a real post in weeks. There's a lot that I am working on, and due to homework and school projects, I probably will not be posting untill after November the 17th.