[TheForge] Fw: Can't compete w/ this

[Andrew Vida]

dan tull wrote:
> My point being..... we need a national umbrella to educate specifiers, 
> designers, and customers on what is good ironwork.

	Those people are not interested in "good ironwork"  They are interested 
in getting something that looks like the drawing and is as cheap as 
possible.  Very few of the designers I have worked with cared enough to 
ignore the bottom line.  Fewer customers cared.  That is why all that 
horrid "metalwork" from MX sells like hot cakes.  You cannot sell finely 
crafted iron chairs @ $500 apiece when you can buy nasty little scrape 
of the dregs for $75 from who-the-hell-knows-where.
> 
> Target had a 4 piece fireplace tool set for $39.95.
> Entirely serviceable for (a) year(s).

	You think?