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They look nice...I guess, but $16? With a router and saw, one could easily and very quickly make at least 50-60 at that price. Oak is quite cheap, and so is paint.

I agree with Christopher...these could be a DIY for much less than $16 each.

This is the perfect example of the most ridiculous kind of excess imaginable. Paying $16 for something that costs pennies and takes seconds to make is an enormous waste of money better spent elsewhere.

hahahahaha--this is great. I can't wait for the next one.

yeah diy...

I don't have a router. :( I'm a big fan of DIY up to a point where there's no really easy way to do it.

This site claims they are $12 from the same exact source.
http://fabsugar.com/286138
This one (direct?) comes out to about $12.85.
http://www.thorstenvanelten.com/products/?company_id=&product_id=170
So the cost to import them?

People spend ridiculous amounts of money on dumb stuff they could have had a lot cheaper for things we might categorize as "if only." One of my goals in life is to think of something cheap and simple to make in quantity, difficult to copy at home, and wildly popular enough even for a short term to profit amazingly. I doubt anyone's making a fortune off these doorstops, but they're cute enough in the right environment, if you need or "need" such a thing to spend what most people consider a trivial amount of money for a decorative trifle. I see so many posts where people WANT things, and this thing's obviously cheaply copied, if you have tools or your neighbor does. How motivated are you to do that yourself? They're not that exciting. Basic, unobtrusive, with just the right amount of fuss... someone already made it.. if you really want it, take the path of least resistance here.

Haha, nothing beats these, I feel like it must be a joke on the manufacturers end. It's too chunks of pine, how much could that possibly cost? 10 bucks?

http://www.dwr.com/product/accessories/accessories/pine-bookend-set-pine-of-two.do?sortby=ourPicks

Please excuse my typo, "too" should have been "two", you could get killed for that on an IMDB board.

Speaking of overpriced versus quality, can anyone offer me an opinion on the eames storage units? I've heard people's arguments on getting the "real thing", built to the designers specifications and not stealing their ideas. And I completely agree with something like the Eames Lounge or the Noguchi Table. But this one is hard for me. $2,000 is a lot, especially for a few pieces of plywood and some steel angles. I prefer the neutral colored one as the one with primary colors reminds me of something for a childrens room. Shell out the cash or go buy a few sheets of finished plywood and make it myself?