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Old 01-29-2002, 01:34 PM   #9
SteveDallas
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Originally posted by russotto


You haven't bought draperies recently, have you? Cost me over 100 bucks for an ordinary wool/acetate drapery and cheapie traverse rod for a standard-sized window. And that was on sale. I'm sure these are much bigger, of heavier material, and probably custom (and not on sale). $8000 doesn't seem out of line, except that they shouldn't be there in the first place.
I admit, no... and I'm not suggesting they could have done it with $150 in stuff from Home Depot. but I refuse to believe that that statue couldn't have been covered up in an appropriate way (i.e. no thumbtacks in the historic wood paneling) for much less then $8,000.

Of course, it takes somebody who will say, "You know, $8,000 is an awful lot to pay to accomplish this.. maybe we should see if we can bring it in for less."
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