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Who would buy this crap?
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/house-horrors-understanding.php
OH GOD THERES MORE
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/bradford-exchange-crap.php
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/horrors-never-cease.php
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/new-in-hell.php
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/more-horrors-from.php

My wife!

Oooh, stanky. I mean the stuff, not your wife.

A former girlfriend's mother was facing house foreclosure after getting addicted to the Home Shopping Networks and filling her house with such trinkets.

Telling this story last week to a friend, she one-upped me, telling me how the operators at QVC and HSN, both home shopping from the telly, knew her relative by the sound of her voice, and were on a first name basis with her.

No, I would not buy any of it.
But in saying that, if I didnt read all these opinions of the author I would have just thought most of them were nice figurines.

I doubt if there was any ill intent of the designer when he designed them, Maybe he was making something he thought was nice looking and appealing to peoples love of nature. Ya cant please everyone, someone will always have something negative to say about anything. Go figure. :scratch2:

I think the author has alot of time on his hands.

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This would look bitchin over my fireplace. By fireplace, I mean those plastic logs with an orange lightbulb and electric brushes underneath.

Your answer as to who would buy them is in one of the articles...

...you too can own a piece of history with this legendary weapon that will imbue any trailer or mobile home with extraordinary character and charm.

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This would look bitchin over my fireplace. By fireplace, I mean those plastic logs with an orange lightbulb and electric brushes underneath.

Hmm....lets see....bad balancing of the blade to the hilt.....painting on the blade will scrape off of some miscretin's ribs too easily.... probably not removable from the wooden wall anchor....shitty materials (probably 5000 series aluminum or worse yet 306 stainless).... yeah, you could probably stab somebody after they roll on the floor laughing their asses off when you weild this crap-tastic patronizing affront to a metallurgical art dating back to the early middle ages.....SHIT, I'm just getting pissed right off and insulted just by looking at this metallic booger.

:D

I've seen worse, but I've also seen much better.

No, I wouldn't buy any of it. I buy stuff that serve a purpose other then decoration.

There are probably guys on the Bitchin'CollectibleSwords.com forum laughing at people who collect "old stereo crap."

Think I'll stick with this one - pun intended.:D

This is to swodery (is that a word?) like THIS

http://www.amradios.com/used-phonographs.html

is to vintage audio.

http://jonsey.blogdns.org/img/11_07_07_dragon.jpg
Who would buy this crap?
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/house-horrors-understanding.php
OH GOD THERES MORE
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/bradford-exchange-crap.php
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/horrors-never-cease.php
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/new-in-hell.php
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/more-horrors-from.php

because someone has a yen for dragons. as does my mother and sister. dosent exactly float my boat, though. one could pick up some fine second hand audio gear for the price of those, i'd wager.

Both my wife and my son (an ET in the NAVY) who collect dragon figurines might they are both kind of picky.

My wife has her dragons displayed very nicely in the Library I built for her.

Pretty sure she would allow you the stuff might spend your money on.