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Angelswords - why are they so pricey?
Sir Rodney:
Angel Swords still has a booth at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. I stop in every year to look at their wares, listen to their demonstrations, and watch unsuspecting people fork over hard earned money for overpriced crowbars. It makes me sad.
At least the festival organizers are wise enough to separate them from the Arms & Armor booth which is more than halfway across the festival grounds. Though I would love to be a fly on the wall should Craig ever have a discussion with one of the AS “experts”.
$30,000.00 (thirty thousand U.S. dollars) for the Signature Viking Great Sword; really ??!! >:( ::)
Sir Douglas:
--- Quote from: Lord Rodney on 2014-05-21, 04:04:31 ---
$30,000.00 (thirty thousand U.S. dollars) for the Signature Viking Great Sword; really ??!! >:( ::)
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Yes, but, "Old world forging techniques and modern super-science collide to create the highest performance sword steel in the world."
See that? Modern Super-Science! I just naturally assume that means it was forged from a meteorite in the very bowels of Area 51 by Stephen Hawking and a team of NASA scientists. ;)
Ian:
LOL, anyone who goes for that sales pitch deserves to have their purse lightened by $30,000.00
Sir Edward:
LOL!
Yeah, I just don't get how they manage to stay in business that way, especially with passing off cheap crowbars as their own "high quality" work.
I think it HAS to be psychology:
1. People are more easily swayed into paying larger sums, when they can work up to it. Angelsword does trade-ins on their own pieces.
2. High price-tags can trick people into thinking something is better. This is particularly true in some segments of the wealthier class, where the price-tag on a purchase is almost a bragging point.
3. And of course, people simply don't know any better.
As an aside, something that was hilarious, was that the last time I was in their booth, I picked up one of the swords, and went into "Ochs", and the salesman starting to smirk and made a comment about me doing a Conan impersonation. I just very calmly said, "no, this is one of the guards we use" and left it at that. (I chose Ochs, because of their rule about keeping the sword over the table, and the table was tall).
Lord Dane:
Don't forget to mention Superman's personalized touches with his heat vision to strengthen the blade with a tad of kryptonite. Gives it a nice green tint. Easily another 5,000 to the price.
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