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Caviar Introduces Custom 'Pure Gold' AirPods Max for $108,000
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I guess there are a lot more poor people that would want these. They just can't buy them.
do you expect rich people to not spend their money and just get buried with it when they die?
It says "Gold plated", MR words, don't know if that's the case but if it is those who purchase these are stupid, it should be solid gold.
*Gold plated adds maybe 100 grams of gold, does not compute pricewise. (±€5000)
But then again, you need to hold your head to support the weight of this thing.
Do you actually know any billionaires? Yeah, neither do I.
I do know a few “rich” people though, and they wouldn’t be caught dead owning something as tacky as this.
Stuff like this will be bought by rich Saudi teenagers and used a couple times in front of their friends, then tossed in a drawer or closet.
You had to know this was coming. They kinda look good in gold. Their base price looks pretty good now, doesn't it.
And in a year or two when Apple releases a highly popular, stainless steel gold version — like they did with the Apple Watch — the few idiots who bought these will be lost in a sea of stainless steel gold headphones, and either suck it up, or inform those around them that their headphones are “real gold,” and look like huge losers.
Can’t. Wait.
No one will get “in trouble.” Apple isn’t the police. This is no different than Colorware selling custom colored airpods.
I could buy a couple pairs of these, laser engrave “Lock her up!” on one side and a crude photo of Trump on the other and sell them online and Apple couldn’t do ****. Good thing I’d never do that, because I’m not a horrible person.
Also, good luck trying to stop a company in Russia or China from reselling things.
This is something nouveau rich and entitled people would buy. Maybe Trump will get one since he loves gold stuff.
These don't come with a "bra" carrying case. They come with an actual naked woman to carry them for you.
Russian company Caviar, known for making luxury variants of popular tech gadgets, today announced that it will be releasing custom AirPods Max plated with "pure gold" for the high price of $108,000 at some point in 2021.
The custom AirPods Max will be available in white and black, with each color offered "in a single piece worldwide," suggesting that the headphones may be quite exclusive. In the words of Caviar, the pure gold design apparently "looks elegant, emphasizing the status of the owners and their impeccable taste," for people who "want to always be on top."
Caviar recently introduced a custom iPhone 12 Pro that supposedly includes a small piece of an original Apple I computer's circuit board, but this claim has been disputed.
Article Link: Caviar Introduces Custom 'Pure Gold' AirPods Max for $108,000
These are suprisingly understated for them. I would have expected something more like:
Perfect for rappers and soon to be bankrupt post retirement pro athletes.
Anyone who pays for such extravagance has long lost sensibility.Not again........
I simply can't understand why would anyone be purchasing from them when literally most (if not all) of their designs were horrible.........
Guess money can't buy you taste and sensibility
Rich people are not weird. People are weird. Rich people simply have the resources to make their weird desires a reality.
Would you buy gold plated jewelry?
The Caviar is only “plated in gold”.
Gold plating is a few microns in thickness. This is not even close to an actual gold value. At $60K per Kilo you could get over 3 pounds of gold for that price.
The Caviar is only “plated in gold”.
Gold plating is a few microns in thickness. This is not even close to an actual gold value. At $60K per Kilo you could get over 3 pounds of gold for that price.
I’m curious to how they were able to produce these so quickly. I mean, unless they were going off the past renderings of what we saw over the last few months, they obviously need to have time to engineer/blueprint in manufacturing these, so how else would they have the proper specifications when the Max just launched like a little over two weeks ago.
So I’m guessing they either have inside information, or they were using the specifications based off the renderings, being that you can’t just manufacture something like this in a short amount of time, especially given the craftsmanship that these are generally probably made in very small production numbers.
So I’m guessing they either have inside information, or they were using the specifications based off the renderings, being that you can’t just manufacture something like this in a short amount of time, especially given the craftsmanship that these are generally probably made in very small production numbers.
Produce what? All they are doing is buying sets of Apple headphones taking them apart, powder blasting or chemically treating the metal parts and then dropping them into a gold electroplating bath a few times. It also looks they they replaced or/and covered up some of the other pieces with other materials. However all that takes is some that can sew.