Pedlars outdoes itself again

[MortaIWombat]

Soooo, if I wanted some hastily-painted glass birds to hang from my oh-so-tasteful tree, I could choose six for

£12.99 from amazon

£15 from cox and cox

or

wait for it

£24.95 from pedlars

Hmmmmmmm, let me think.

I particularly love the way the pedlars birds look faintly embarrassed to be there.

How have I never come across the existence of Pedlars, or indeed threads on the subject?

I'm weeping with laughter here. I don't know what's worse, the five teabags for £9.50 or the wooden torch.

Who buys this stuff?!

Oh Fabulous.... A festive Pedlars thread.

Ha ha ha at the grocers' crate. Village greengrocers has loads of them stacked up. I shall ask if I can have one and then spray it silver. Save myself £199.

Some fucker must have bought that spanner, I can't find it on the website anymore.

Five sheets of wrapping paper for 11.95 !! sheesh.....

Small and shameful admission. Pedlars is one of those catalogues I actually open before they head straight for the recycling bin - because inbetween the most barking interesting things they have some quite nice stuff which I can then source for a fraction of the price elsewhere. GLTC also falls into the same category, as does notonthehighstreet (how I came to be on all these mailing lists remains a mystery).

I am now that any of their stuff appeals, and will slink off into my Par-Tea free RL in shame.

What are the peddler children called? I remember they were all something suitably mad unique...

£645 for a typewriter!

I have a pair of black 1950's anglepoise lamps!

pedlars is HILARIOUS

I bet a MNer bought the spanner for it's entertainment value.

If I had the spanner, I'd put it above my fireplace, and chuckle at it every so often.

Or, they took it from the website in the hopes it would stop us taking the piss. Fat chance Pedlars!

I should think they're the ones laughing all the way to the bank if people are daft enough to buy this sort of tat.

Whimsical pile of shite

I'm trying to get my head round when it would be appropriate to use the teabags - when the vicar comes to visit? But who gets which one - is there some kind of hierarchy?

I want Easter teabags: you could have Jesus, Mary, Pontius Pilate, Barabbas, God himself...or is that blasphemous? Is it? Even if it's at £1.90 for a cup of teabag tea??

yy to looking at catalogue and laughing at ludicrous crap but occasioanlly spotting nice stuff not seen elsewhere that can then be sourced at a quarter of the price on eBay/Amazon etc

ditto Sarah Raven catalogue ( sorry Sarah, love your writing and books but your catalogue prices are silly )

oh I LOVE pedlars threads

I don't even look at Pedlars anymore and I know this is going to be unpopular and I do love Cox and Cox - but I find myself double-checking their prices constantly too.
Eg

Sock monkey jack in the box
Here
Here

Photo frame clock
Here
Here

They do have some gorgeous things though.

www.pedlars.co.uk/page_3581.html

clicked onto this expecting it to be some whimsical musical tape or similar shite. Worse yet, it's four value tealights and a roll of tape. Worth £13 of anyone's cash. That's a roll of packing tape and four tealights. Not even scented.

The pricing of those teabags has made me laugh so much that I can only think that the Pedlars couple are much misunderstood situationist geniuses.

After the last Pedlars thread, DH and I went on their website to show friends the judiciously-priced spanners (we don't get out much...). We put 200 of them into the basket and there seemed plenty more left. We then had to abandon it in case we accidentally pressed 'place order'.

'Pedlars' chicken' is now one a popular evening entertainment at madamplatz. As 'Guess the price of that wooden torch' will be tonight.

They are geniuses (genii?), I tell you.

I don't get the tape/candle thing. How is that advent? It's like leftover stuff they had around and are flogging off.

Sue, they are artists

And pranks like that don't some cheap.

at the tape and candles - who on earth would buy that?

I almost admire them. No description on the tape one - they're obviously mortified at their own brass neck

I think they've added the tape-and-candles specially for us

Help! I need picked up off the floor.....this is hilarious...please can someone link the last pedlars thread??