Happy New Year to you all. I've been unable to look at my mail for the last month, as we had problems at work after a bad storm at the beginning of December, and my computer was one of the casualties.., then I went on leave for a week, and came back in time for Xmas to be told everything had to be packed away so they could put a new carpet in (maybe the bad smell will go away then...) I'm just starting to read through the latest posts and saw this thread about the price of machine lace, and I felt I had to tell you about this woman at work!
She went to a very nice material shop in Melbourne, which sells expensive materials, not your usual Spotlight place. Apparently, while she was waltzing through the aisles, she saw a "lovely gold/yellow piece of lace: "hand embroidered and beaded in Italy", it said, and she thought it cost A$59,95 a metre, so she was getting a bargain. She wanted something to make up a wedding(attendance) dress, so she grabbed the material, asked the girl to cut her one metre, paid with her credit card (i.e. had to sign the docket!), got home and unwrapped it, checked the price....and saw they had taken A$599.00 off her credit card!!! She rang up, and they confirmed that yes, the price of the lace WAS A$599 a metre, after all it WAS hand-embroidered and beaded in Italy. Well, she was absolutely furious when she told us the tale, because they refused to take the material back when she said she had made a mistake about the price, and then, they refused to "give me 20% off at least since I bought it by mistake". I couldn't believe my ears!!!That someone, after being stupid enough not to check a price properly, and then not to check what she was signing when she signed the docket, should expect the shop to bear the price of her own mistake!!!! And what I thought was the weirdest thing of the lot, she told us she didn't like the material anyway once she got it home, it didn't go with the rest of her dress.... Yours shaking her head at people's folly, Helene, the froggy from Melbourne ..."So, my advice would be to start with looking at superiour fabric stores which cater to well-known clothes designers and which carry lace-by-the-yard, and compare the prices of those first -- those are the prices at which good quality, but modern and not unique machine-made lace is being sold at; the "bread-and-butter" as it were. From there, the jump to "cake" ought to be somewhat easier...." http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
