What kills me is that I hear people talk about how hard you work and how you "deserve" these sorts of things, but if all you can think of to spend your millions on is a bag that costs as much as my car (or even a few of my childhood neighbors' homes), then let's face it. You're out of things to blow money on. I'd have more respect if you passed the money onto your employees, investors, or even your customers. Because you clearly don't need it.

And no, I didn't get all my luggage out of Wal-Mart (a lot of Samsonite, High Sierra, Eddie Bauer, etc. that I found on sale) but when you've gotten to the point of needing metal cases to protect your suitcases, you've gone beyond the use case of what you're buying: a farking suitcase. So yeah, kill yourself.

/Prefers the Lewis Black school of thinking
//Hire your very own private ball washer. That's showing off to your friends.

My guess is that if you own this piece of luggage, you don't have to worry about losing it, as you probably also own your own fleet of jets as well.

EverWatcher: If you own and typically use such a suitcase, kill yourself.

I don't, but you sound poor.

skandalus: What kills me is that I hear people talk about how hard you work and how you "deserve" these sorts of things, but if all you can think of to spend your millions on is a bag that costs as much as my car (or even a few of my childhood neighbors' homes), then let's face it. You're out of things to blow money on. I'd have more respect if you passed the money onto your employees, investors, or even your customers. Because you clearly don't need it.


Serious question, why do the employees, investors or customers deserve it more?

LAUGHTER OL first there is the troll of this thread who talks about Obama which gives me much laughter at the silliness.

Also if this was the article from The Consumerist.com it would be about how the airline is the horrible industry for not taking the more perfect care of a bag by giving this bag its own airplane. It would say OMGOODNESS THIS IS THE OUTRAGE OF THE AIRLINE BUSINESS!

SubBass49: /their ties typically cost $120 each...
//the final assignment in my art course last semester was to enter their design competition

How did you have time to work on this project while flipping the burgers at McDonalds?

Meh ...

The only reason to have such a suitcase, IMO, is for the same reason there are shops down on Melrose Ave. which sell such things as $25,000 chandeliers. Why would you want a $25K chandelier? Yes, it was very beautiful, but it wasn't obviously $25K unless you told someone it was.

So the only way anyone would know is if you had guests over and said, "I see you are admiring my chandelier. It's a $25,000 Up-Your-Ass chandelier made of pure volcanic rock crystal. And while you admire it, you're standing on my $50,000 pure yak wool antique Persian rug, which I bought in Samarkand. Oops, gotta run pack my $40,000 suitcase to fly to London in my $4.5 million Lear jet." Seriously, WTF?

Warren Buffett does not have all that money because he buys shiat like this, by the way.

I have a feeling that the store is targeting the Palm Beach crowd, those who have tons of money, and like to buy very flashy things to show off how much money they have, i.e more money than brains.

Nem Wan: jst3p: skandalus: What kills me is that I hear people talk about how hard you work and how you "deserve" these sorts of things, but if all you can think of to spend your millions on is a bag that costs as much as my car (or even a few of my childhood neighbors' homes), then let's face it. You're out of things to blow money on. I'd have more respect if you passed the money onto your employees, investors, or even your customers. Because you clearly don't need it.


Serious question, why do the employees, investors or customers deserve it more?

They did the work and probably had many of the ideas that created your wealth, and you couldn't have done it without them, or you'd have disposed of them to keep even more for yourself. They have a finite time on this earth just as you do. How does the sum of their man-hours compare to yours? You can say they were fairly compensated if they were paid only what they were promised, or at least enough to keep them from quitting, but did they really get a fair share of what they created?

Yes, by your own words.

NightOwl2255: skandalus: I'd have more respect if you passed the money onto your employees, investors, or even your customers. Because you clearly don't need it.

He did just that. He passed it on to the good people at Hermes. They paid their employees, and suppliers and taxes. Those employees bought other goods and services and those suppliers paid their workers. See how that works. Of course he could have just put the money under a mattress and not "wasted" it, and that would do the economy a lot of good.

And Hermes is one of the few remaining companies that still hand makes everything, pays adult artisans a good wage, and pours their money back into the French communities where they're located.

Now I can't really imagine having $27,000 in my pocket and thinking: okay, what do I spend this on? Hmmm. Suitcase! But that's beside the point. The point is that the writer of the article is a dense and ignorant failure at writing, comprehension, and life.