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.

Lets not forget their £7.95 egg timer.

I especially like the bit that says "These are
pretty commonplace in the US but we?ve rarely seen them elsewhere".....er, try Poundland as thats where I bought mine for, let me try and remember...thats right, £1.

Oh my god those birds.

Though those bomb-wrapping-ball things did go down really well last christmas - kept the dcs entertained for a while - got one cheaper than that though...

Yes Norbert - my mum bought me one of them when I was a student and am sure she didnt pay £7.95 for it...

those teabags are awesome!!

http://www.pedlars.co.uk/page_2604.html made me laugh.

Sorry should have been this

cupcake lip glosses @ 9 quid

and here they are at £3.95

I remember these from childhood

that's more like it!

I will send anyone a stone for a fiver and P&P. Plenty in stock here.

OMG! hilarious. Have to admit these look yummy though...

Can somebody explain this whole pedlars thing to me though? I've never seen it before... What's their story?

And what's the deal with the spanner?!

Tell me or I shall cry. Or worse I shall order everyone I know to buy stuff off the site :o

OMG. Am laughing so hard can hardly breathe!

DH was asking me what Pedlars is. I said they make Johnnie Boden's set up look like Poundland.

Explain somebody please...

Oh Freudian . Don't be left out.
Pedlars are a couple called Caro and something. Johnnie Boden #2 praps. They have a million children, all named either Tarquin or Jocasta. They have this Pedlars site and a fave MN occupation is to find identical items to the ones on their website for 5% of the cost. The spanner was a gem sourced in France (font of all house poncery crap) for around £650. It was buggered vintage and huge.
A year or so ago, Mrs Pedlars or someone who looked mighty like her came onto a thread to call Mnetters numpties for not appreciating the quality and all round gorgeousness of an item that caused particular hilarity. iIt was a fruit crate in silver for a million pounds.
I admire them greatly for their necks, finished as they are in authentic vintage brass.

I am actually crying at the four tea lights and packing tape.

What fucking idiots buy this shit?

Why four tealights? Do they think we'll packing tape them to the mantelpiece and light one for every Sunday in Advent?

Thanks for the explanation :o am loving the site (to laugh at that is, not to buy shit)

"Would you like some Holy Birth Tea, vicar?"

I had never come across Pedlars before, but it does seem quite entertaining!

Has ANYBODY on here ever bought anything from Pedlars? Who on earth are their target customers? Is the whole thing some enormous joke on the part of Jocasta and Charlie (or whatever their names are) who are actually so filthy rich that they never need to work again but keep themselves amused by coming up with outrageous non-existant goods for this website? And wtf is the idea of the tealights and tape - is the tape sticky, what does it all MEAN? Sigh - so many questions, so little comprehension ....

Oh I love a good Pedlars thread after a hard day at work and then a bit of wine

Particularly love how crucial it is that your £95 torch is hewn from attractive wood when most torches ACTUALLY never see the light of day given that you use them when it is dark.

A bit like the £350 step ladder that will live in the dark cupboard under the stairs and never be seen

Weeeelllll, I haven't bought anything. But earlier I was thinking of sending MIL the link to that £95 torch. Then I realised that yes, she'd laugh at that, but she'd drop £25 on a bag of birdy baubles without thinking that Pedlars might be routinely doubling/trebling/quadrupling the average RRP of a given item and seeing if they can get away with it.

I've just added them as a friend on Facebook. waiting rapturous confirmation

I won't be a lucrative customer. If ever I need anything I just ask for it on freecycle.

YOu can get those cupcake lipglosses for about two quid in the snotty shops in Crouch End.

Bella, the Nativity Teabag King is in fact Steve Coogan.

Which does raise the possibility that the whole thing is a reality TV hoax or standup routine in the making.

Has anyone mentioned the rather cool poster about having just enough in your life ,which is over £100 from Pedlars and about £12 from the company who printed it?

My favourite line when faced with breathtaking price inflation in eg charming little delis in North Oxford:

"I can pay that...but I won't."

I'm sure it has no effect whatsoever other than to be very satisfying to say

maktaitai THANK YOU