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I guess to understand we would need to know what it feels like to have unlimited funds, through one means or another...
I expect the reality is that $10000 to many of the people who buy this "luxury tat ;-)" is perhaps like $100 to us.
Different world indeed, but many of these items do sell...if your brand is strong (which is the key)
Rich
: I can just hear my good friends at TAG-Heuer reminding me that
: us vintage watch collectors just don't understand "luxury
: goods" . . . like the $4,000 Meridiist that I tried for a
: couple of weeks.
: A friend who works at Tourneau told me of a customer who had
: purchased 10 or 12 of the Vertu phones, all of them priced above
: the $5,000 mark, some above $10,000. Yep, people who buy the
: "luzury goods" are just different.
: Jeff
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