{"id":694,"date":"2019-09-17T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/?page_id=694"},"modified":"2025-02-10T09:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T06:49:51","slug":"luxury-goods-do-well-even-during-the-worst-economic-times","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/luxury-goods-do-well-even-during-the-worst-economic-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury goods do well even during the worst economic times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/luxe.digital\/business\/digital-luxury-ranking\/most-popular-luxury-brands\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-846\" src=\"https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ID-100180337.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1212\" height=\"1715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ID-100180337.png 1212w, https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ID-100180337-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ID-100180337-768x1087.png 768w, https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ID-100180337-724x1024.png 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1212px) 100vw, 1212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><strong><em>my new hobby is selling to the rich folk<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Goods of ostentation, that\u2019s what they were called, I almost forgot. Is it a sign of arrogance or foolishness when the rich buy goods at too high a price? Sometimes those goods have no practical use to them but they still continue to buy them anyway, the poor will then say, &#8220;the rich have got so much money they haven&#8217;t found a place to keep it all in, so by buying the useless staff, they are simply dumping the excess cash they have got. That would be better than throwing a bunch of notes to street urchins.&#8221; the shopkeepers on the other hand, who have now wealthy customers claim that charging them too high for cheap goods is a justice served, if we allow them to buy at a regular price, then they might buy all the quantities in our stock and leave others who have fewer notes with literary nothing.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>In fact this gives me a business idea, am going to start a company where I sell extraordinary and rare sea shells, if they are very prestigious indeed some dumb rich folk is obviously going to buy them.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Figure out if your product is going to be of a necessity or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myaccountingcourse.com\/accounting-dictionary\/luxury-goods\">luxury good<\/a>, goods of necessity attracts more competitors thus lowering profit margins, luxury goods on the other hand attracts fewer competitors but also fewer customers and slower sales.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:separator {\"className\":\"is-style-wide\"} --><\/p>\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:separator -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:separator {\"className\":\"is-style-wide\"} --><\/p>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 25.0189%;\">\u00a0<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 54.6485%;\">\r\n<p><iframe title=\"What are VEBLEN and GIFFEN Goods\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FWFM3rNW018?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 20.3325%;\">\u00a0<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:separator -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:separator {\"className\":\"is-style-wide\"} \/-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my new hobby is selling to the rich folk &nbsp; Goods of ostentation, that\u2019s what they were called, I almost forgot. Is it a sign of arrogance or foolishness when the rich buy goods at too high a price? 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