To think that a handbag should not cost $33,000 in the first place?

[Beastofburden]

I know it's Oprah's own money. I know she tweeted to say, in any case it was overpriced and she would never have bought it. But I can't quite get out of my head the idea that there is some ridiculous shop in Switzerland where a handbag costs a year's income for a family.

Not a piece of craftsmanship furniture. Not diamonds. A handbag.

Am I a miserable, Marxist old bag? Is it just me that feels that this crosses the line, somehow?

wow only a few posts in to compare handbag prices to footballers salaries

YABVU something is worth what someone is willing to pay. I personally wouldn't want a 33k handbag but would happily pay 100k for a watch if I had serious money - why not?

It is a ridiculous price for a handbag, but if someone wants to try and charge that for it then let them. They will either sell it at that price or they won't, but if they do then that's between them and whoever buys it, nothing to do with anyone else.

Personally, I'd rather complain about the price of fuel, because that affects everyone.

for some people a years wages would be little more than a cheap handbag - so should all trivial handbags be banned unless they fit a required dullness?

doesn't this woman own a fortune of around 2.8 billion, which a a very large amount of money in anyones book and so buying a handbag for 33k is no different from someone buying a handbag for 33£ when they own less than 1000 times less than her

The money paid for these bags goes somewhere.
The ubber rich spend money and someone has to work to make or provide the things they spend their money on.

I'm happy just as long as those people get decent salaries.

YANBU. Even if I won a euromillions rollover I wouldn't be able to bring myself to spend £1000 on a bag let alone 33K. That's enough to buy a flat around here.

YANBU unless it is encrusted with diamonds to that same value!
More money than sense comes to mind.

It's all relative.If you are living on a dollar a day in a third world country then 10 dollars would be an obscene amount to spend in a bag.I wouldn't spend 1000 dollars on a bag,but then,I am not a billionaire,like Oprah.

Where do you draw the "allowable" line?

Should houses cost millions and have empty rooms by the hundred when there are so many people trapped in B&B / bedsit / LA accommodation which is completely unsuitable for their needs?

Should someone think nothing of spending $500 on a meal out when that's a month's food budget for someone else, or 3 months'?

It's all relative to personal income. I suspect the subconscious "eek I wouldn't spend that much but it's not obscene" bar is set in everyone slightly higher than an amount which they perceive to be affordable.

"I just simply don't believe that people have got that rich without the exploitation of others or having completely inequitable company structures.

So I feel justified in loathing the uber rich and the trappings that go with it as they exploit others.

Not that they give a tiny turd"

What a load of tosh! So JK Rowling with her hundreds of millions in the bank has exploited others - how? By subjecting us to Lord Voldemort?

The internet millionaire who made his/her fortune by developing software/app which is used by millions has oppressed us by subjecting us to Angry birds or Minecraft?

A person spending $35,000 in a handbag hardly gets my temperature raised. Please! How about those people who spend millions on great art? Boats? Houses? Jewellery? Why not get het up about that? WHy is that number obscene? Would it also be obscene the millions (sometimes billions) that these people give away to charities? Oprah Winfrey is hardly Robert Mugabe!

YABU if someone is prepared to pay $33,000 for it then that is what it is worth.