What the market will bear
Jan. 26th, 2007 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfs I went by Pike Place Market to hit the natural foods store and get myself some fish oils, which seems to help my attention deficit, and to pick up a small Buddha statuette. Yeah, there it is, sitting on my desk. The photo makes him look fatter than he really is. More evil, too. Since I was going in from the east gate, I passed by this little kitsch shop that has thousands upon thousands of little statuettes of all kinds. I picked up one of the Buddhas and discovered that it was priced at $17.95. That much for a two-inch tall statuette? I passed on it.
Across the street from Pike Place Market, in the same block as Showgirls and the New Age bookstore, there's a little shop that sells "Philippine kitsch". And they have the same hand carved Buddhas there as well. Two dollars.
I doubt the $14 price differential is going back to the poor souls in whichever third world country these things are made. (Mine says "Made in China" on his butt.)
Across the street from Pike Place Market, in the same block as Showgirls and the New Age bookstore, there's a little shop that sells "Philippine kitsch". And they have the same hand carved Buddhas there as well. Two dollars.
I doubt the $14 price differential is going back to the poor souls in whichever third world country these things are made. (Mine says "Made in China" on his butt.)
