Limited Edition designer shopping bag on sale ONE DAY ONLY at Sainsburys 25th April

rose28454

I actually offered the tokens to enable people to enter which is technically not offering a raffle ticket. However I have now evened out thescore by offering them free on here (although only had 1 taker!!)

pinkemsy

rdwarr wrote: »

Mind you, offering raffle tickets for Glastonbury tickets was asking for trouble. It breaks just about every rule in the ebay book!

Glad I wasn't the only one to think that.

pinkemsy

Well my bag has broken already. I know someone else with the same problem. The material has come away from the handles, at the silver ring bit. I wasn't even carrying anything heavy in it. Typical. Anyone else noticed the same problem?

tigergold

pinkemsy wrote: »

Well my bag has broken already. I know someone else with the same problem. The material has come away from the handles, at the silver ring bit. I wasn't even carrying anything heavy in it. Typical. Anyone else noticed the same problem?

:eek: :eek: :mad:

sure someone will give you advice !
i did read on this thread that their bag had come away at the silver ring where the handle is

annapantscats

Okay, I will probably be slated for this........
.....But it IS a £5 canvas bag, mass produced in a sweat shop. Because people are choosing to pay £100 for the bags does not mean they are actually worth that much!

tigergold

annapantscats wrote: »

Okay, I will probably be slated for this........
.....But it IS a £5 canvas bag, mass produced in a sweat shop. Because people are choosing to pay £100 for the bags does not mean they are actually worth that much!

I did want to say that,but was to scared.
The bag is made in china, by labour that gets paid 20p an hour.
Even though its got a designer name on it, its not of better quality than anything bought in Primark.

penniesforme

umm...20p an hour means 3 chinese yuan. (a bus ride cost 1 yuan..) so 20 p an hour is not really that bad,...but i do agree that it IS cheap labour. it is below the average pay, but not that much below, actually.

believe me, though 20 p seems very little (probably meant nothing?) to you, some people do manage to get by with 20p a day in china. (not in the big, developed cities, but rather, in the rural areas).

where did they get the 20p estimate from anyway?

pinkemsy

If the bag was going to fall apart in less than a week I'd expect to take it back to wherever I bought it, including Primark. Bearing in mind you're supposed to put your shopping in it and I didn't have anything remotely heavy in mine, I don't think it's that great really and I am justified to say that. Should have just put mine on ebay in the first place perhaps....

tigergold

sorry my fault, heard it on the news, - think it was 20p to 30p per day

ManAtHome

annapantscats wrote: »

Okay, I will probably be slated for this........
.....But it IS a £5 canvas bag, mass produced in a sweat shop. Because people are choosing to pay £100 for the bags does not mean they are actually worth that much!

Well the fashion-pushers have a notoriously low opinion of the "fashionistas". Long time since I worked for an "up-market" chain, but one notable quote was "wish Diana would turn up with a dog-turd brooch - we could get them cheaper than the t-shirts".

As you say, if people want to pay £100 for £2-worth of product, their chioce. I'm sure there are still some around who would say (but not think) "Oh how clever you are"...LOL, twonks.