Property News · November 17, 2017

Yours for £2,999: Kerry Katona’s circular bed (complete with free mattress)!


In the run-up to Christmas, the stars are out flogging their wares, but surely few can beat the Atomic Kitten singer and the glory of her white leather bedAnother week, another opportunity to consider how it is that little more than a famous name can apparently “justify” the eye-watering markup on an item whose raw materials could easily be purchased on Amazon for eight quid. But enough about the $450m auction price of a Leonardo Da Vinci painting, because Zoella’s extensive collaboration with Boots – notably a £50 advent calendar containing a grim assortment of perfunctory tat – has also made headlines. Boasting only 12 days’ worth of gifts, the box is perhaps most charitably described as an advent calendar for anyone either in a hurry or on holiday for the first two weeks of December, and the box of trinkets went viral thanks to a review by another YouTuber, JaackMaate, who uploaded his thoughts on commercialisation after a pre-roll ad on his own monetised channel, the YouTube equivalent of those times when Piers Morgan makes a decent point about gun control. By Wednesday, Boots had slashed the calendar’s cost to £25, which actually seems to border on representing decent value for money, if indeed such a concept exists in retail’s tinsel-strewn season of peace and hilariously inflated prices to all men (and their daughters). Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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