Is there a "wrong" in creativity?

[CJ57]

I don't think we are particularly slagging off the brand just that it's is really expensive for want it is, a mass produced fairly lightweight bit of work that people are willing to pay for because it has a name.
We all probably have the skills to make it and no doubt someone has been asked to copy a bead but why would we want to!
Maybe the women are also looking at it from a different perspective, husbands seem to think we might like a bit of bling, having said that mine now has good taste and he learnt that really quickly. He has now stopped buying me jewellery from our favourite designer shop because I know what their mark up is and I know exactly what the jeweller gets and so does he which is a shame

[Gemsetterchris]

. He has now stopped buying me jewellery from our favourite designer shop because I know what their mark up is and I know exactly what the jeweller gets and so does he which is a shame

So you f*ed that bit up

[Keia]

Haha, no not in a good way Caroline I have been asked to make one to fit the P bracelet before though, but not a copy =)

[CJ57]

So you f*ed that bit up

I did kinda but they were also seriously overpriced so saved him some money

[Gemsetterchris]

Same for most things in shops, that's why they end up closing down..it'll be be all online sooner or later.
Some do take the biscuit abit, rather they added 25% or whatever rather than automatically
50+ serves em right.

[CJ57]

This one has been going a long time now and I know their mark up was around 120 % but I don't know what the more recent owners do. She is a jobbing jeweller and they have good stuff from all over so think they will continue to survive

[Gemsetterchris]

120% . Good for them Lol.

[Dennis]

I think the villains of the piece are the landlords actually. They do very little except charge 'market rents', which can rise steeply if the area suddenly becomes fashionable.

[Gemsetterchris]

That's the phrase I was looking for - "avant garde".

Is that French for crap?

[Patstone]

I am a landlady with several properties, and a huge mortgage on each, if the tenant doesnt pay, we cant pay the mortgage. Properties were my "pension" as if anything happens to hubby I only get a small proportion of his army pension, even though he did 22 years and is now 50% disabled because of injuries in the first gulf war. We dont make much profit on them, as it all goes back in repairs etc,.

I think the villains of the piece are the landlords actually. They do very little except charge 'market rents', which can rise steeply if the area suddenly becomes fashionable.