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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Anything you buy in a retail mall is going to have huge margins. You think scotch and soda t-shirts are worth $150? Clothes are likely way more marked up than jewelry. If you can do 50% on luxury items you're quite the genius in my opinion.
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I have no idea what a soda shirt is, but I can guarantee you only a dope would ever pay $150 for a shirt. T-shirts are $20 or up to $30 in a pinch. They end up working out to a few cents a wear over the many years they last. That's good value.
Jewellery is much different. It's not a justifiable luxury item in the way upgrading to a Mercedes from a Malibu is. There is a different experience in a Mercedes that you can enjoy daily over a lesser brand. When there is no distinguishable difference whatsoever between a cubic zirconia and a diamond except for falling for a cheesy marketing pitch, it demonstrates really poor judgment to pay thousands more for a diamond for no additional benefit.
Same with a gold chain or bracelet or whatever. I think owning one or two is fine btw. But have you seen the guys that wear multiple chains, bracelets and earnings? Super tacky. And not enough people have that kind of gawdy taste that would justify all the jewellery stores in Calgary (to bring it back to my original point).