So I (Amy) found this dress that I really liked online.  I searched by the style number and found it on several websites for between $400 and $600, but on one website, it was only $149!

“How can this be?” I thought to myself.  “Sounds a bit too good to be true…”

They offered an email address, and I took them up on it.  “I am curious why the price is so low,” wrote I.

Their reply (not even kidding) :

Dear friend,

This question is asked by most of our customers.  There are 3 Keys:

All the dresses at our website are not the original desienged dresses but the copy.  The pictures are copyrighted by the company who have these brands.  We collected these pictures from internet and just make them as samples to our customers who want to let us customize the dresses for them.  The dresses will be designed and produced by the requirements of our customers themself.  So the price is low.

We are a Chinese wedding dress factory.  So the price is low.

We don’t have the retail stores in US or Europe.  So the price is low.

All gowns  we offer are new and customized by the requirements of our customers.
you can order in other color if you like.

It usually take us 15-20 days to customize a dress .take 4-7 days by global express delivery .  So you’d better go ahead more than one month place an order.

Best Regards
Skyle Gao

The reply I didn’t send:

Thank you, dear Skyle, but in America we have a few words for that…like illegal, for one.  I’m going to go ahead and not place that order…

Tags: humorous, wedding dress

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 11:53 am and is filed under planning, stories.