<i>As for my coat, in the end, there was no real mystery to it. It was too cheap to be true, and no matter how much technology changes, you get what you pay for.</i><p>It can be an endeavor in and of itself to figure out where the "too cheap to be true" prices start for a given product. If you were accustomed to the HDMI cable prices at Best Buy you might suspect -- wrongly -- that Monoprice was full of too-cheap-to-be-good scam products. What's the labor and materials cost of making a decent camel coat? How low can prices go if the seller spends little on marketing and can live with modest profits? I have no idea. I don't know where "you could get a bargain coat by avoiding name-brand markup" prices end and where "you are guaranteed to get junk" prices begin.