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.

I'd never heard of Pedlars before so this thread has cheered me up.

I assume this is either a "hobby" business for bored people, a tax loss business or a social experiment into how much you can con people into paying for tat if you write enough gushing prose about it....

We need a pschology Phd student!!!!!

The tartan cube with a tail...is this a failed taxidermy by a drunken Scot? It is so useless I'm reeling at it.

On this summer's Pedlars thread (well worth a read for anyone who's enjoying this one) there was a quote from an Independent profile of Mr and Mrs Pedlar "...we're not making a profit from Pedlars yet ? won't be for a good few years. Antiques is the only business where you have to pay for everything before you sell it."

Yup, that will be why they aren't making a profit. Can't think of any other reason...

That tartan fox cube is the New Spanner.

Good work, Prof

Would you feel put out if I name changed to TartanFoxCube, Prof? You should have first dibs, really.

I think it was my poking fun at the 'silver' ceramic crate that set the owner off last time, but I didn't get back to the thread before it went poof.

Bet I can smoke her out encourage her to participate in our discussion again.

I think it was pirateparty who first brought the cube to the collective attention of Mumsnet, so as far as I am concerned you are welcome to the name (although I do like your current name, so please don't abandon it entirely...)

It would be my Christmas namechange, Prof.

Right, shall ask pirateparty.

I fear I've delevoped a bit of a fixation.

"Looks like someone dropped it on a fox from a great height"

you made me laugh new sport to replace fox hunting

Fox pouffing.

Thanks so much for reposting that, Prof. I was beginning to wonder if I'd dreamt it.

I don't think I have ever seen a more revolting, useless piece of tat coupled with such an astonishing price tag. I applaud Pedlars for highlighting the futility of materialism with such subversive wit, I really do.

I mean, they can't possibly be serious, can they?

www.pedlars.co.uk/page_1722.html

£145 to stick a sign on your wall that says 'make do and mend'.

"Nativity Tea Bags" !

NativityTeaBags would make someone an excellent Christmas namechange.

Love the irony of the 'Make Do And Mend' picture, or whatever you call it.

I wish I was rich and stupid so I could buy the vile tartan cube to amuse me on cold winter nights

I can't believe "make do and mend".

It's not as if they have found them in an antiques fair and then decided to try and flog them for £145.

They have actually commissioned them deliberately!

at make do and mend. my hand involuntarily bunched into a fist.

literally LOL at "fox pouffing"

I cannot imagine living a life where tartan fox roadkill would feature as a good idea, and would not elicit this response in any visitors.

I just want to shriek with laughter at Make Do and Mend. 'Henry and I felt we needed something that said 'global recession' and we found just what we were looking for at Pedlars!'

"Recently we came across a game called Jack Straws which had been reintroduced to the market after a break of 30 years or something. We saw it a trade fair and my heart missed a beat because when I was young I had it and I loved it; in fact that should be LOVED it. There was just something lovely about it, about those beautiful little pieces, about the box. And, of course, I loved playing it with my parents and siblings. It was just all-round-brilliant. And then I completely forgot about it for, well, probably over thirty years; but when I saw it this year a truly powerful surge of emotion and love for it washed over me. This is nostalgia at its fiercest; it isn't sentimentality, as such, or I don't think it is. It's just that there are some possessions that we have when we are children that live in our minds forever"

Whip round to get his kids an Xbox Kinect anyone?

Poor lambs, Ton.

I think we should have a whip round to buy the tartan fox pouffe for MN Towers. It would make an excellent throne for visiting dignitaries.

I have pirateparty's blessing :)

I am new to this whole pedlars thing but it has captured my heart...

I may change my name too if TartanFoxCube doesn't mind?

If I ever train as a primary school teacher, I am going to buy this bag

Feel free, Freudian.