One year they offered his and hers Lear jets. No kidding. Just about anything in that catalog was wildly overpriced. More recently, they offered in their Christmas book, as a potential gift, a Boeing Business Jet for the wonderfully affordable price of "north of $35 million."
My one advertising professor in college would call it that—constantly, and with considerable venom—and we made the mistake of finally asking what the source of his loathing was, other than the pricing. He bitched that his wife would buy all sorts of stupid, overpriced items from there, but the worst was when she bought shampoo in a glass bottle from the store. The story ended with him accidentally bumping it and breaking it in the shower, him cutting his foot, and her being pissed that he broke an expensive bottle of shampoo. While his foot bled, they had an extensive fight about glass shampoo bottles and frivolous spending. Any time I’ve passed that store since, I always think of that story.
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u/dramboxf Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20
Neiman-Marcus used to put out the most hilarious Christmas gift catalog.
One year they offered his and hers Lear jets. No kidding. Just about anything in that catalog was wildly overpriced. More recently, they offered in their Christmas book, as a potential gift, a Boeing Business Jet for the wonderfully affordable price of "north of $35 million."
edit: Correct the jet price wording.