hello Verace Fan:
Advantage maybe not, my bf and I are regular customers at Bond Street Branch over the years. Therefore know the manager and the special order staff pretty well. Once you are close to them, it certain helps in getting things done more easily. Unfortunately the only one teddy bear in Europe has gone for photoshooting and I was not able to see it.
However, I have got the prices for them both. Teddy bear costs much less than I thought it would be, a mere 250 pounds! The brooch is not expensive neither, 150 pounds or so as I remember. Makes me wonder why there are only one or two each country. ?_?
As for the sales in Taiwan, I got nothing to say about that. Sales on the high end market are werid creatures and some of them just don`t live in the real world. I have long ago learnt to just walk away encountering those as u mentioned, even if it`s something I really like. No point in making urself unhappy for something like that, isn`t it? ^_*