people who can by the apple watch have credit cards that can handle a 10k purchase. I've charged 8k on my amex before, doesn't mean my priorities weren't straight just meant i do not carry 8k in cash on me.
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people who can by the apple watch have credit cards that can handle a 10k purchase. I've charged 8k on my amex before, doesn't mean my priorities weren't straight just meant i do not carry 8k in cash on me.
This forum has become surreal in it's ridiculousness. And I have been on Macrumors for a long time.
Maybe the point Apple is trying to make is that even a server can buy an Apple Watch with most expensive band options
Listen, if I'm paying £10,000+ for A WATCH, the Apple store is shutting for 2 hours, and the ENTIRE staff are coming with me to the nearest decent restaurant, and Apple are buying me a 3 course meal.
Simple as.
Do I sound entitled? So do Apple, thinking people ought to pay them £10,000+ for A SMART WATCH.
Simple as.
Do I sound entitled? So do Apple, thinking people ought to pay them £10,000+ for A SMART WATCH.
Not every server works at Joe's Diner making minimum wage. There are many who work in good earning establishments that don't garnish their wages, offer benefits, and therefore can afford things like a car, a mortgage for a home, or maybe an Apple Watch (imagine that!).
So.... how long do people expect this $10k watch to last? And what do they think it will be worth in 2 years?
Most luxury watches appreciate in value. But this is not a luxury watch. It's an electronic item sold at a luxury price and it will be obsolete within a few years.
We live in a world where some people have nothing (literally nothing) and others are spending $10k on an electronic watch that doesn't even hold a day of charge. It's mind boggling. I'm not casting judgement on others here - tonight I will have a nice dinner and play some PS4. We're all consumers. It just seems..... so wrong.
Most luxury watches appreciate in value. But this is not a luxury watch. It's an electronic item sold at a luxury price and it will be obsolete within a few years.
We live in a world where some people have nothing (literally nothing) and others are spending $10k on an electronic watch that doesn't even hold a day of charge. It's mind boggling. I'm not casting judgement on others here - tonight I will have a nice dinner and play some PS4. We're all consumers. It just seems..... so wrong.
False, only a few brands and a few models of those brands keep or increase their value as long as you bought them with a frequent customer discount (20-25% depending on the model). Most luxury watches lose value, in fact they lose value lightning fast, above all if they're made of color gold. If you buy them for their retail price even the best ones will struggle to keep with the inflation, in fact I doubt any of them will.
Good ones at keeping value, steel Rolex sport watches, steel (or titanium) Panerai Luminors, Omega Speedmaster pro, Patek Nautilus maybe... All the rest, rare vintages and limited editions apart, once you've bought them they lose 35-40% of their retail price. Why? Because connaisseurs know they can buy them with the discounts I said and aren't going to pay you the same price. So you can go to a pawn shop and get robbed, or sell it on a collectors' market and face the discount+a significant depreciation to make someone interested.
Will the Edition lose value that fast or more? We'll see, probably, but at least no one will be able to buy it with a 25% discount from the beginning, so...
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The most amusing thing in these threads is the people complaining about the price of the $10,000 watch that they aren't going to buy.
It happens all the time. People complains about the price of the iPhone, supercars, watches... all kind of unnecessary things as if they were forced to buy them or if anyone should be able to buy anything.
If all I can afford or want to spend is for the Canon Rebel, why complain about the price of the 1D X ?
This thread is hilarious and so typical here. You all need to mind your own ****ing business and stop worrying about what other people do and how they spend their money
Yes... hilarious and typical. The irony is staggering, that all of the people here are either wage slaves or work for less than a billion a year and have ZERO control over anything.
The real power is held by those who control the flow of commerce. Those who bought into some marketed "dream" and act like big-shots while driving way too fast and reckless in their Yukons to their sub- million dollar homes have no real power, and are nothing but consuming, delusional rabble.
You know what's impressive? The holder of REAL power, not someone makes more than someone else at their wage slave job and buys stuff that they're told to buy for some sort of shallow oneupmanship or so-called satisfaction. Yes... hilarious and pathetic describes that to a T.
Maybe right after buying one of these they can get a 30 minute appointment with a therapist helping determine why they paid so much for a silly toy watch that will make them look like dorks at the high zoot dinner club?
Hilarious.
Hilarious.
I stand by what I said. There are people out there who will happily buy this as a fashion accessory without a second thought.
Whom I may or not know isn't relevant. I think you're about to disagree with me, which is your right.Time will tell...
People are buying handbags made in sweat shops in Asia for that amount of money and they don't get any special treatment... Actually, from what I see of Vuitton every time I go near it, they're mostly handled like cattle...
Why would you get it when you're buying a watch (which costs more to build than the handbag) ?
If you purchase a 10,000 watch do you really need 30 minute of someone showing you how great it is? Obviously if you brought a 10,000 dollar watch you already know how good it is. Unless you are one of those dumb rich people who will throw their money at anything. But
You misunderstood the poster. And you are wrong. Those who buy high category watches look at it as a status symbol and at the same time as an investment.
Disposable gadget = gold Apple Watch.