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The global financial meltdown killed the desire to spend replica Bell & Ross Space 3 womens watches excessive amounts of money on luxury goods, especially watches.It was a do or die time to think about the future and form a new business model.The brands had a couple of problems.First, the Internet was screwing with their pricing models and their relationships with their retailers.Second, they were bloated.Overall, many of them had too many redundancies, inefficient cost structures, and a reliance on unreliable suppliers.It was really time to change things, especially while they didn't have watch sales to worry about.
Change first came internally.Many brands started swiss replica watches getting wise to "doing it themselves." You see more and more brands with in-house movements, marketing departments, and a tendency to rely on outside suppliers as little as possible (which is still a lot in many cases).If you do use suppliers, then it is very attractive to visit China, where goods are often 50-70% of the quality, for 20-40% of the price for Swiss or other European parts.Brands also took a very close look at the Internet and what it was doing.Are people buying watches? Are they buying expensive watches? The answer to these and more questions was undeniably "yes.
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