Our Prices

We strive, at all times, to price all the goods we sell fairly. 

In doing do, we inevitably have to balance value for money and competitiveness with our ability to remain in business.

The advent of the internet and ‘virtual’ businesses, coupled with cheaply produced goods has meant a sea-change in how companies do business and what customers expect from shops like ours.

We're family run and we work everso hard. We love what we do.  What we're not is in it simply for the money - some money would be nice, of course, but it's about more than that.  We sell things that we love and we believe have value and worth. What we can't do is compete with the likes of the big boys.  They have buying power and levers which we do not possess, even if wanted them.  We all know how many of the largest companies in the UK work and lots of us feel uneasy about it, often for good reason.  We're not altruists, but we do try to supply goods which are sourced locally when we can, with an eye on the realisation that if we work strictly to that as a hard and fast rule, we won't be here for long.  That means that we do buy some of our products from China and the Far East, because it's almost impossible not to - but a good deal of what we sell is from elsewhere.  Add to that, the fact that we sell antique and vintage items and you start to realise that buying goods that have been previously cherished by someone before you, means that the accidental by-product is you're actually being green into the bargain.  How good is that?

Before going on to stress the benefits of buying the things we have for sale, bear this in mind - attrributed to John Ruskin.

John Ruskin (1819-1900) Victorian artist, environmentalist, philosopher, poet and scientist, shared his words of wisdom on prices.

 

"It is unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all.  When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing that which it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot.  It cannot be done.  If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run.  And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for            something better. There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper - and people who consider price alone are this man's lawful prey."