So how does John lewis charge £120 for a lampshade when Homebase sell the same for £39.99???

[PeaMcLean]

John lewis

homebase

Now, i'm not saying I particularly like this, but how does this price difference happen? Neither are in the sale.

See, I keep saying John Lewis is a rip off and the collective power of MN won't have it. I knew I was right!!!

hehe that's funny

and how seventies is that shade - my parents had those in every room!!!

I'm quite stunned at the JL mark up tbh.

Tis slightly different though - the centre of the flower is a different shape. I expect the JL one is much better quality, v expensive though all the same.

Because people like to say..."Oh yes, I got it from John Lewis"

and have enough money to be paying £120 for a lightshade in the first place.

It goes with..."oh yes, I have Farrow and Ball Cornsilk Blue in my hall.."

They pay £15 a pot more than homebases paint so they can trot out that little line for the next 4 years.

John Lewis is awfully dull for the price.

the last time i pointed out a 'never knowingly undersold' to john lewis the electrical dept collectively put their fingers in their ears and went la la la...then mouthed 'feck off' to us..

well spotted!

it's not the same light.

m&s do a version too, at £70ish

Do you think so, UM, because that is deeply pathetic if so.

I am terribly proud of how cheap things are, epecially when my ebay antique leather sofa is mistaken for sofa workshop/laura ashley and people think my B&Q wallpaper is Osborne & Little or similar.

I think it is the same one actually, the JL photo is just better shot (no doubt partly accounts for price difference).... same name and same size.

Will probably get this

though I do like this

Which is very similar to

this

don't get that peaches - lampshades with a metallic interior look SHIT, they don't filter the light nicely AT ALL, it looks like a bus station

you need an opaque shaded which lets light through

"looks like a bus station"

I didn't know that, fair comment.

Though it's for the main ceiling light in the front room and we never have it switched on, we only use the lamps, so might be ok???

What I really want is one of the massive red ones they have in M&S (ie the shop fittings not on sale) but I can't find those.

oh yes I know the ones you mean - they ARE nice. Have you tried Next?

Nah. nothing quite so big.

Wonder where they get them. I often prefer shop fittings to the stuff they sell.

yes me too - their christmas shop fittings are always gorge

Looking at it in more detail, ,the John Lewis one is made of cream Capiz shell (by product of oyster industry), and the homebase is probably a yellower imitation. A bit like having a czech crystal chandelier and comparing to an identical looking glass one., you can't see itstraight away but once lit up the real one has a shimmer to it and the artificial one is like a plastic gloss.

Well, that's quite interesting, and I guess if the shade was going to be particularly prominent it might be worth an extra £80 for that but I really don't spend that much time looking at my lights

john lewis will never be undersold -

they WILL be different