Online shopping for down jackets is not very ＂reliable＂
"It’s affordable to buy down jackets in different seasons, especially the online promotion is more lively, but I don’t know how the quality is … …” Ms. Zhang, a citizen who is planning to "bargain for benefits" recently, told reporters. What is the quality of down jackets on the market? Where to buy down jackets is more "reliable"? Yesterday, the Municipal Consumers Association released a comparative test report on down garments of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Consumers Association. The results showed that nearly 30% of down jackets purchased from online shopping platforms such as Pinduoduo, Aauto Quicker, Xiaohongshu and Tik Tok had problems.
It is understood that the samples were purchased from physical stores and online e-commerce platforms, and Far East Zhengda Inspection Group Co., Ltd. was entrusted to conduct comparative tests. Of the 80 down jacket samples purchased in this comparative test, 50 were purchased online and 30 were purchased from physical stores; 50 samples purchased online were purchased from shopping platforms such as Pinduoduo, Aauto Quicker, Tik Tok, Tmall, JD.COM, Vipshop, Xiaohongshu and Suning.cn. The 30 samples purchased in the physical store were purchased from Xidan Shopping Mall, Hanguang Department Store, Huaxiang Ole, Yansha Ole, Wangfu Central, Hualian SKP and other shopping malls.
This comparative experiment involves many well-known clothing brands at home and abroad, including Bosideng, Pathfinder, Jiangnan Buyi, CANADAGOOSE, Mengkelai, MOUSSY, Columbia, PUMA, Anta, Yalu, Xuezhongfei, Qianqigang, Antarctic, etc. The purchase price ranges from 138 yuan to 12,050 yuan.
After testing, 16 out of 80 samples failed to meet the requirements of relevant standards, and the overall nonconformity rate was 20%. Among them, 3 out of 30 down jackets purchased in physical stores failed to meet the standards (the same below) and 13 out of 50 samples purchased online failed to meet the requirements. Five of the 10 samples purchased from Pinduoduo did not meet the requirements; 2 pieces purchased from Tik Tok did not meet the requirements; 3 pieces were purchased from Aauto Quicker, and 2 pieces did not meet the requirements; I bought 3 pieces from Little Red Book, and 1 piece did not meet the requirements.
The items involved in this comparative test that down does not meet the requirements of relevant standards mainly include: down content, down content, down filling amount and fluffy degree. There are 10 pieces of down items that do not conform to the comparison test samples; There are 8 pieces with inconsistent cashmere content and cashmere content; There are 6 pieces with inconsistent cashmere filling quantity; There are 4 pieces whose bulkiness does not match. Of the 8 samples with inconsistent cashmere content and cashmere content, 4 samples have actually measured cashmere content below 50%.