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by adhesive_wombat 1130 days ago
Hermes makes some outrageously tacky "normal thing but it's the price of my car" products. Like a backgammon set for £6k: https://www.hermes.com/uk/en/product/palio-backgammon-game-H...

And they may also pretend that it's so scarce you have to apply to a waiting list for the right to buy things so you feel extra special (cynically I suspect this also weeds out riff-raff rich enough to afford the item's sticker price but not also the PA to faff about with the process).

It's very silly. And profitable, evidently.