AIBU or is three grand too much for pans?

[GeraldineAubergine]

I went to a collegues house recently to see s

Goodness; could they not just bury you in them? Save on coffin fees? All singing, all dancing cookware?!

Your colleague is quite bonkers or on commission

The thing is it's not just the pans. This collegue is part of a wider group of pan aficionados. It's taken me three years to break in and sit with them at coffee time. I fear being a pan denier might cost me in more than just my health. Its lonely custard creams for me from now on.

Just a heads up...

I have had much fun at the expense of SM* on another forum, but they do check their google hits and they will chase any negative feedback and do everything that they can to get the thread pulled.

They are focussed!!!!! So perhaps the pans of doom should be pilloried, but not mentioned by name.

Also, take in some cabbage cake cooked in an aluminium pan. It may soften their hearts, and do an extra cup of bicarb for them when you make the tea. I am sure that will help.

Whatever you do, don't drink the Kool Aid...

Actually, if feel a little sorry for pan lady. She sounds pretty desperate - I wonder how much dosh she has invested to be so persistent to sell.

£3k for saucepans? Nuts.

Pan lady did seem very lovely to start with, however, she has a salespersons single minded determination, a steely gaze, a product born of madness and unfortunately my number. Not my bank details though, but she is working on it.

Are they for Scientologist cookery??

Big hard sell scamaroony. Saw a similar sales tactic warned about on Watchdog, only it was crockery I think. Money for old rope.

Ok, not that sorry for her. Honestly, can you not just tell her to leave you alone?

Colleagues need you to buy them to validate their own gullibility - if you don't, it is akin to calling them morons.

Your choice, but I wouldn't want to be sitting in the coffee room having just called my colleagues morons.

Go on, buy the pans.

Beryl are you a pan lady? That's exactly how I feel.

This is fab and totally reminds me of my sister's experiences with ThermoMix. The blender that heats things as well. Like you put the eggs in and they mix around and come out as ready cooked custard. Amaze... And only £1,400.
AND she got sucked in. But it didn't work. She ended up calling the police for harassment the woman was so aggressive. The sales lady's point was that it was DS fault for not being very good in the kitchen. Sales loon's case kind of fell apart when ThermoMix discovered DS is actually a professional chef . But it was unbelievably stressful.
Still £1,400 for a blender. WTF???

But it cooked the custard as well as mixed it? Astonishing! I tell you what that would go well with - cabbage cake. Why don't they sell these wonder products in regular shops? Why do you have to give hours of your life and portions of your sanity and self respect in order to buy them?

Because they are only for very SPECIAL people.

I think you may have to change your number, and possibly your job?
Have you thought about a safe house?
Don't forget to pack your own pans though.....

Who fancies a guest for a week?

is that you or the SM colleague?

DP got mixed up in water filters a few years ago. The sellers have to buy the machines first, so I presume that your colleague has actually paid about £10k for 4 or so sets of pans and is panicking that no-one will buy the bloody crappy things from her.

Love the FAQ on the website "This is what your peers are saying...." Have never read anything quite so brainwashy.

Come and stay with me any time geraldine. i have normal sort of pans and don't cook my eggs in the approved sweetcorn fashion, but you could maybe make do with curried lettuce with cucumber coulis?

And I think you are funny.
I am now your number 1 fan.
In fact, if you give me your phone number, I could ring you up at inconvenient times to tell you how funny you are.

This service will make you healthier and happier, and is now available, to exclusive funny people only, for £2,999.97. Bargain

ooh I have never had a fan. I can only stay at your house if you have sheets spun from the silk of moths and mirrors crafted from the solidified tears of unicorns. These pans have really given me ideas above my station you. See and I think it would be damaging for my ego to go back to polyester and looking at my reflection in the back of a spoon.

snurk

i spend it on bedding.yes siree fancy box construction feathery siiberian goose and oodles of wool blankets

I'm off the hook. Collegue still got tin opener and small bowl even though I haven't bought the pans. I no longer need to worry about feeling lonely whilst drinking my bovril.

wtf of course its reasonable there gold lined arnt they

I dont even think they are even titanium. It's all a load of boswellox.