€150 for a mug 🤯

[u/nippapippa]

Does anyone else feel like Fiskars “(Moomin Arabia)” is taking advantage of us Moomin fans!?
Over the past few years the mugs have been getting more and more expensive, and more and more exclusive mugs are being released!
I guess they know people are willing to pay a lot of some of the old rare mugs, and they are finding ways to make the new mugs exclusive and desirable to justify selling them for 150€! This just seems ridiculous to me and I’m starting to have negative feelings towards the company!
This is a shame because I do love my Moomin mugs!

[u/B_Ellard]

There are many, many Moomin stories that mock this type of object fetishization.

[u/Prestigious_Bee_4392 → u/B_Ellard]

Sure but Arabia has made limited stuff for ages, and hand painted is always more expensive. I'd be disappointed if a hand painted item wasn't more expensive. Their regular mugs are still reasonably priced

[u/B_Ellard → u/Prestigious_Bee_4392]

It's not about hand-made stuff in general. This is merch, not art. It's neither unique nor artful, it's a pre-made template, approved by the copyright holder, drawn on a factory-produced cup. No one forces me to spend 150$ on it, true, but no one can force me to consider it a valuable piece of Arabic craftsmanship, or even a great product.

[u/Prestigious_Bee_4392 → u/B_Ellard]

It's a limited edition run of a hand painted art print on a mug. You declaring it's not art doesn't make it not art, just because it's on a factory mug. Art and merch are not mutually exclusive.

[u/B_Ellard → u/Prestigious_Bee_4392]

There are differences in art, handicrafts and products. I didn't invent those, nor are they meant to be judgemental on their own. But yes, if you put a pre-made template on a pre-made mug, even by hand, that's not art. That's handicraft. If it's sold en masse (limited edition be damned) by a global corporation, it's a product, no matter how lovely it looks or how carefully it was made.