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Now the absurdity of the items was bad enough but what really got to me was this, and its quoted directly from the article itself. I'll highlight the part where I think the absurdities went straight to audacity..
"As outrageous as some of the items might seem, Tiffany & Co. means for them to be accessible luxuries. "While there are certainly extraordinary items at elevated price points, the vast majority of products in the collection are actually under $500," Derek Conrad, a company representative, told TODAY Home in an email.
By all means, if you can afford to indulge the collection without taking a foreclosure on the home you'd hoped to store them in, we're all for it."
To me and many others, this goes way against the grain of business etiquette by simply saying out loud, "We know you have the money, and we want it and a bunch more if we can get it."
I think the audacity of this is atrocious if not for the implied thoughts beyond perhaps my own conservatism's but for the shear fact that "TIME" is a commodity that is irreplaceable.. No longer are the days of simplicity where even the 'middle-class' father goes to work in a job and supports a mortgage, wife, 2.5 kids, perhaps two vehicles, and still mages to spend a week out of his two week vacation taking the family on trips all while never missing or being late on a single payment of ANYTHING.
I would suppose that maybe, just maybe this above advertising may be selected for such an individual as it may be, maybe he could have $95 porcelain cups, or $350 crazy straws to put in them too... But most people of that era and time didn't blow their entire checks before the following payday or a day or two before to do it all over again. THEY saved and put away money to buy things they wanted. Something this new generation of youth confuses with instant gratifications and fueling the over consumerism that has people locked into blowing every dime earned.
Maybe I'm the confused one of change because my beliefs don't allow me to fit into the current societal template of new.. A lot of what I see, I don't want to fit for more reasons than I may be allowed bandwidth to explain.
What are your thoughts on things like this? I know there are quite a few men on here already who have me beat by at least 15-25 years. Surely you remember things as I do (?)...
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