Pandora Bracelets

My Significant Other has a Pandora Bracelet.

Like many other owners of Pandora Bracelets, my Significant Other has no idea why the need exists.

The Pandora bracelet, is yet another example of sly marketing toward Gen Y.

Overpriced, and of poor quality, Pandora bracelets sell by the bucket load. To the point where dedicated Pandora shops started to appear, and appear very quickly, presumably to cash in before folk realise what they are spending their hard earned on.

The Chinese counterfeiters were quick to catch on though, probably driven by FRB types, this has spread to the extent that when a Pandora Bracelet is presented to a Pandora shop with a query, the first action of the shop is to ask if its a Chinese fake.

The 'charms' which Pandora sell to adorn the bracelets are also overpriced rubbish, but once you own a bracelet, you 'need' to buy them to show your true colours in following the crowd.

The biggest rip off of all is the bracelet clasp. I'm sure this has been designed in such a way to make it almost impossible to open without special tools. To me, a special tool like this should cost a couple of dollars. But no, Pandora sell the tool, and being Silver with a 'Cubic Zircona' it costs many times more than a few dollars. There can't be many tools in the world made from Silver.....