Woman spends over 4 thousand in Harrods every day for 10 years

[FarrahMoan]

AIBU to ask how the fuck? Surely you can only replace furniture, gadgets etc so quickly. Maybe if you bought a brand new outfit everyday? A £1k bottle of champagne? I'm amazed and disgusted in equal measure

(she spent £16mil over 10 years - the equivalent of over £4k per day)

The amount doesn’t surprise me - I bought a crunchie (equivalent) there once, cost £18

" I struggle with the idea that she has so much when so many have so little."

But lots of people have so much.

And by the sounds of things, she actually didn't!

Harrods is beyond tacky, it’s true but their Marie rose prawns are delish

I’m amazed nobody in the store twigged and had a word though.

why (in your opinion) is it ‘ naff’??

It's super gaudy and sells overpriced tat. Of course it's naff.

Off thread slightly but back in the day there was a story that Robert Smith of The Cure was supposedly refused entry into Harrods on account of the ripped jeans he was wearing. This is back in the 80's when The Cure were BIG (still are in many places) and ripped jeans were de rigeur. Robert supposedly took out his Harrods Gold Card and politely informed the doorman the offending items were purchased in Harrods

hoppinggreen that's bonkers! Was it worth the money?

I've only been in Harrods a couple of times, the last was to visit the toy section which was pretty good. It does have a rep for being pretty ostentatious and naff though ay

It's super gaudy and sells overpriced tat. Of course it's naff.

Yes. Thank you.

£11m for a terraced house! I'd rather have mine.

No it wasn’t, an actual crunchie would have been much better.
It was one where they weigh it so I had no idea how much it cost until she put it in a bag and handed it to me. I was so upset I ended up in the men’s toilets by mistake and then DS fell over and demolished a perfume display
In no rush to go back, the kids wanted to go to M&M world instead - I should have listened to them

Ped what a great story!! I adore Robert Smith.

Harrods is an awful shop. Fortnum's all the way.

That Robert Smith story must be an urban myth. He wouldn't have been buying his jeans in Harrods!

Off thread but a chance to rant about something I've never had a chance to rant about before. I bloody hate super-rich people and their sense of entitlement. In my (much) younger days I used to make silver jewellery, and a big snobby department store started taking individual 'special' items. The most expensive piece I made was based on a folk tale, a flight of swans. Went in a few days after I delivered it and it was missing, hurray it was sold, but no, it had been 'borrowed for a week' by the wife of the billionaire owner of the business that the store was a small part of. It was so obviously a handmade item, and she wouldn't even buy it, just 'borrow'. Took it back when it was returned, and wouldn't give them any more items to lend to billionaires There's a reason why rich people are rich.

I’m amazed nobody in the store twigged and had a word though.

I suspect a large amount of money spent in Harrods has been 'earned' through some morally or legally dodgy routes. If they had a word with anyone they thought was laundering they'd be out of business within a week

Yep, the UK is the country to come to if you want to spend your ill-gotten gains. Talk about corruption. FFS I bought a garage (10k) and had to jump through hoops to prove who I was for "money laundering" clearance and these ultra wealthy criminals come and go and do as they want.

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

Sounds like a case of dirty money if you ask me.

@Juells, that is despicable. How immoral, "keep the small people down".

Could easily do it...

Monday: Chanel bag
Tuesday: Acouple of pairs of Jimmy Choos
Wednesday: A piece of jewellery
Thursday: An Omega watch
Friday: 2 Hermes blankets and a bottle of champagne
Saturday: Skincare from La Mer and a beautiful makeup bag to put it in
Sunday: An outfit from Prada

aaaaand repeat....

Although if the money wasn't legit, I bet a lot of it was sold on immediately.

Harrods has everything and will get you anything within the law. It even has an estate agent and you could use the food court as a supermarket if you wanted. Wouldn’t be cheap though. They organise events and parties for people and interior decorators and stylists.

One insteresting aspect is that although she was a regular at the shop visiting the store almost daily she had cards in up to 35 different relative names on them. Given the amount she spent would have given her the undivided attention of several members of staff when she visited including Arabic speakers over 4 years, it’s near enough impossible they wouldn’t have noticed she was using different names.

There are two explanations for this, either the Harrods staff were in on it, which there doesn’t seem to be any indication of or, much more likely, she wore either a Niqab or a burka to shop. I assume it’s the last one and they’ve confirmed all the same woman used those names via her own staff.

If this is the case I suspect very soon we may see a law coming in providing better ID checks for those wearing face coverings making large financial transactions.

Harrods is a lovely store, you can buy things there that you cannot get elsewhere and not everything is terribly expensive.

I wonder if the woman just wants to use up the money quickly. For all we know she could also have been giving a lot away. Jewellery and the like could be her insurance because many people are left with nothing - less than nothing - if their spouse is banged up. Jewellery can be sold, same with antiques, expensive china and silverware.

It was silly to spend so much in one shop. There are other places where you can buy really good things. Had she varied her spending and spread it out a bit she might not have been questioned.

Thanks for the tips on how to spend my ill gotten gains Rebecca

The staff are not going to question her or her money. As long as the card goes through their job is not to police the customer but to make the shopping experience as painless as possible. Especially if commission/targets were involved. Think 'Pretty Woman'. She has had a great time and just has to have her legal team prove her innocence. She could always go 'on holiday' assuming her passport hasn't been taken off her

Well I would prefer to shop in Harrods and be thought ‘naff ‘.
People who think it’s naff probably can’t afford it!
< cue comments telling me that “I earn over £100k a year” “ I’ve got 12 MA’s” “my family is worth 20billion” .....................I don’t care! >

I was dragged into Harrods by my Mum when she came to visit me in London. I don't go in for all that nonsense. I was apoplectic with rage and being charged £1 to pee...AND there was a hair on the toilet seat.

I made my money back by spraying myself with every perfume they had and spent the rest of the day with a banging headache!

People who think it’s naff probably can’t afford it!

Now that really is naff

Her husband was a salaried state bank employee in an impoverished post-soviet with a GNI of $4K. I am surprised at the previous posters who said "she has the money, good for her". I really hope it is the beginning of a big purge.