Quote Originally Posted by The Deil's Chiel View Post
Hopefully you didn't pay much more than $30 for that cheap Pakistani made knockoff, as they are going for about that price all over ebay (mores the pity!). For about £79.00 you can get the genuine original that yours is a poor quality counterfeit of made in Edinburgh Scotland by Wm. Scott & Son from Marchbrae

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"If it isn't Scottish, it's crrrrrrrrap!!!!"
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but why does your post sound like an advertisement, complete with links to the store?

In regards to your follow-up comment about traditional Scottish sporran makers going out of business, thats how business works. The customer decides a reasonable price for what they want and they'll choose whomever fits -- and if the company wants to stay in business, they either try harder to innovate, find ways to lower their cost, or form some sort of business monopoly. If they don't, or choose not to try any of that then the market swallows them up.

As he said, he spent $23 and got it reasonably quickly (besides the email mix-up). Right now is not the ideal time to be spending $230 or even $150 on sporrans FOR MOST people, and if people can afford those prices, that's great for them that they are somehow unaffected by the economy.

Your post seems not like an insult to the company he shopped at, but more of an insult to the poster. Personally I'd take the $23 sporran and save $200. My great great grandson can get his own sporran.