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Pandora Bracelets

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famishedass · 12/09/2009 23:48

Am I missing something? Are these supposed to be desirable?

I was looking at these in a jewellers in Cribbs today and the basic bracelets are £52 or £250 for one with a gold clasp on and some of the links are £400 - and they don't even look all that nice for God's sake.

Why are we all supposed to like these. Come on own up, who'se got one?

tasteful my arse

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ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 14/09/2009 10:35

I have never heard of any of this stuff. It seems incredibly expensive for what it is, no? Quite like the idea of charm bracelets but they look a bit like childrens' jewellery.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 14/09/2009 11:17

Yet another fashion that's passed me by. I had a quick look at the link, I think I'm too old for one but dd would love it (then lose it). Agree with hanboo and kat.

LynetteScavo · 14/09/2009 11:19

Well Troll Beads are on My Christmas list.

katiestar · 14/09/2009 11:23

I have never heard of them beore.can't believe anyone would pay so much for such tat.I got something very similar out of a cracker at a xmas do last year

seeker · 14/09/2009 11:32

It always makes me smile when people say "collecting" when they mean "buying"!

JuliaKS35 · 13/10/2009 11:42

I think you must look at the individual bracelet. Those of you snobs who think the links of London sweetie bracelet is 'not tacky' should take a look at the HIPPO IN A TUTU, BOXING HARE, GUMMY BEAR, POODLE and other such delightful charms. All of these types of bracelets will depend on the person wearing them and the combination of charms they add. I myself have a Pandora Bracelet and Necklace filled with beautiful charms each given as a gift and with memories of that person and place/event. To be so arrogant to just say they are tacky full stop, shows an ill-informed and narrow mindedness which no-one needs.

ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 13/10/2009 12:01

Ooooooo get you

No it shows a difference of taste. Arrogance, narrow mindedness and ignorance? Lol.

callaird · 13/10/2009 16:09

I have troll beads, I went shopping with my mum and brought a bead for a friend (who has a bracelet) was looking at them and said "I like this one, that one, the other one blah blah", as in, I liked the for my friend.

A month later, my parents gave me one for my birthday, with three of the beads that I said I didn't like!! (2 green glass ones and a character one, a lion, I'm a leo and my birth stone is amethyst!) Lovely to know my mum listens to me! But I do love it! Like someone has said, it is nice to look at it and say, oh, xxx brought me that for xxx and yyy brought me that for yyy.

It would be a sad world if we all liked and disliked the same thing! I only know one person who has trollbeads and she lives 2 hours away from me!

welshdaz · 31/10/2009 20:35

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MortaIWombat · 31/10/2009 20:44

Feck off with your advertising, there's a dear.

onemoretimetoday · 31/10/2009 20:53

I absolutely cannot see the point of buying a bracelet for £100'S and spending £20 on a bead. £20. on. a. bead. I couldn't do it and believe me I can spend money. Gimmicks gone mad. I think that the sweetie bracelets look pretty but everyone wears them especially 12 year old girls. Someone told me of a girl who got 7 of them for a batmitzvah present and apparently that's fairly typical. They're the 2009 equiv of the Tiffany heart. Not for me.

girlsyearapart · 31/10/2009 22:22

I once got a coat from Next and was vay vay pleased with it until I watched Eastenders and ...... DOT had it on....

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