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Rolex is a watch that poor and middle class people think is a rich person's watch.
Most well-known "luxury" brands are. Real rich person's brands won't even bother selling to the poor. There's currently a meltdown among the middle class because Hermes is laughing them out of the store. It's quite funny.
Just to be clear - Hermes is also a fucking waste of money that serves no purpose other than to signal your membership in a club that has no value to society.
All luxury products works that way
Yeah because luxury doesnt mean quality, pretty sure I could get a custom leather coat from some Amish dude out by Salmon Idaho thatd blow away any luxury leather.
Exactly, if you take off the brand logo of an item, its price would drop significantly.
The item itself is secondary, what's important is the status it passes to other people. That's why we find those ridiculous stuff with Supreme brand
This comment makes me want to drive out to Salmon Idaho and buy a custom leather coat.
Correct
Yeah, they're a good example of conspicuous consumption.
I mean, yes? I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
For sure, I was just putting a blunt tip on it so nobody would be confused.
Oh, ok. That's fine, then. I was kinda confused.
Seriously. Past a certain level of wealth, you don't even need to buy brand-named items for most everyday things. You don't buy a suit from an expensive brand. You hire a world-class master tailor to custom make you a suit from scratch. It's fit exactly to your body, made to your exact tastes and specifications. The same thing should be possible with watches. You don't buy an expensive brand, you hire a watch maker to make you an entirely custom piece.
I'd imagine that's pretty rare with watches. I'd guess if they aren't just wearing an apple or Samsung watch, they're wearing something like a Parmegiani.
Sounds pretty cheesy.
In case anyone else wants to look them up, it's spelled with a third "i" instead of "e" Parmigiani Fleurier
So out of my price range I can't even afford to spell it correctly.
It's because they pronounce it Her-Meeez -hair flip-
Retail workers are doing that? Seems odd.
Have you never been to a high-end store where the retail workers just act sorta superior to you because they sell expensive things you can't afford (but at the same time make multiple times less than you because they're retail workers and you're not)? It's that kinda thing. It's weird af.
They're paid to act that way. In case a rich is in the store... Can't have a rich person seeing a poor treated with respect.
It's all about reinforcing class norms
I don't know about the luxury brands but I've seen people act that way at fucking Zara so I'm sure they're just deluded assholes because there's no way Zara pays above minimum wage.
Not odd. Retail workers at those kind of stores have usually been brainwashed.