Fancy Hat ($35,000)

Oh hey guys. I just came back from the dead to show you this really fancy hat. I'm glad to see my Now Reading topic still exists. Gnight!

http://www.brentblack.com/pages/best_02.html

“$35,000?! For a straw hat?!”

Yes.

“Are you serious?”

Yes.

“Is it made of gold?”

No. Straw.

hey alfred!

thats one of the most bastardly things i ever saw

rich people

now there's a guy who knows how to do long copy sales.

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“So it’s just straw.”

Yes, in the same sense that the Hope Diamond is just carbon, and the Mona Lisa is just paint.

Move over, stupid art and jewelry, it looks like we've got a new treasure to cherish

 

FANCY HAT

Imagine the nulls !

That's a fancu hat.

  On 8/17/2011 at 11:24 PM, mcbpete said:

Imagine the nulls !

*spits out guinness* lol

Well fancy that, a fancy hat!

I wonder what the markup is on these hats, probably close to $35.000

if anyone told me their hat cost 35 grand, i'd be extremely tempted to remove it from their head, smiling sweetly, drop it on the ground and step all over it.

if you've got 35 grand to spend on a hat and you spend it on a hat you're a fucking asshammer.

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Imagine someone weaving linen by hand, one thread at a time, and you begin to have some idea of what these hats are like. The finest require three months to weave. Three months. A single hat.

"and I paid the bastard 3 dollars a month, meaning I made $34,991 on this sale...oh shit I wasn't supposed to type that."

  On 8/17/2011 at 10:31 PM, chaosmachine said:

now there's a guy who knows how to do long copy sales.

You'd hope so. He was apparently a professional copywriter: http://www.brentblack.com/pages/aboutus_making_ads_for_hats.html

And I've got to admit, that's some excellent copy. Reading this at work doesn't even feel like slacking off.

Wait, it says $25,000 now

edit: also, I get the feeling that this page was specifically designed to make the average person go "argh fuckin rich people" & share the link on forums. Clever marketing there.

Well, if you look at the catalogue, you can actually buy one of this chap's hats - of an allegedly lower quality - for $500 or thereabouts.

That's still a hell of a lot of money for a hat, but compared to $25,000 it seems like a bargain. Now, a hat approaching the quality of a $25,000 model is within your lower-middle-class grasp...

That's clever marketing.

He's dropped the price by 10,000 dollars in one day. I'd say that undermines his pricing somewhat.

Think you could get a deal if you ordered 2? Anyone wanna go halvsies?

Fuck i'd love someone to buy one and get it stolen while walking down the street. Pretty funny that it'd have basically no resale value because it's just a fucking hat.

hats are important

  On 8/18/2011 at 8:20 PM, Rambo said:

Pretty funny that it'd have basically no resale value because it's just a fucking hat.

hahahaha. Spot on.

it just hit me that this is the most overpriced thing i've seen since the beat kangz beat thang

this hat is valued at 2.7 million

and this shit is 150-200k

according to this:

http://most-expensive.net/hat

Wonder how much this one would cost me: