Update: !!..Now anxious to do my own comparison.... I called HQ hair and they said that they had not had MP brushes for several months and did not know WHEN they would get them back in. hmmm...So I called Mason Pearson in London directly and talked to the nicest lady over the phone. It seems that due to the fact that MP makes ALL the brushes by hand..they are currently very backlogged due to a Raw Materials Crisis. They used to get most of their materials from India and areas now ravaged by last year's tsunami. Their company, one of the few small, family-owned concerns left in England, did some research about getting Cheaper Materials from places like South America and China, at the same time not wanting to pull out their firm and support from the people in India when this is when they need it the most to rebuild their economy. They decided against going to S.A. and China to do business, and thus have this incredible.....up to Six Months.....order backlog. She said sorry, we don't sell to individuals, but gave me the names of some stores in London who might still have some left over from from their last order. They included Selfridges and some others I could not reach when trying to call from here.
I would stil like to get one just to comparison try.
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