Is this immoral?
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+ people are even more willing to spend extra in order to show off in clubs etc... so you can get some even bigger markups
buy a big bottle in some west end clubs and they'll apparently get the DJ to stop the music briefly as some waitresses push the thing towards you on a trolley complete with a whole bunch of indoor fireworks going off
buy some smaller bottle and you get a single sparkler in the top of the bottle and no one really notices
Quite, therefore the increased costs of a single larger bottle than several smaller ones.
come off it - you'd have to have a serious number of breakages to justify the increase shown previously - near enough 3 times the price for the same quantity of champagne
yes it is a factor, as is the cost of manufacturing the larger bottle - these are relatively small though when looking at the increase in cost...
And you know this how?... just because some people do things you don't like doesn't mean they are the above. It's just a different way of life.
Not when you consider the premium materials, processes and the inherent risk as was pointed out. Sure there is also the marketing and the increased exclusivity compared to the increasingly limited availability, and the markups given by different sellers (as demonstrated by the two disparate examples), but I dispute these inherent costs are comparatively small. The exponential increases as we go up the bottle sizes would suggest that each bottle increase disproportionately increases the costs involved in bottling. It is simply by what degree we cannot agree upon.
I think you're massively overestimating any additional premium for risk of breakage and increase in manufacturing costs - the manufacturing costs increase is present for cheaper champagnes using those sized bottles too... the risk of breakage isn't sufficient to warrant charging three times the price for the same volume of champagne (unless you're expecting bottles to be broken at quite an alarming rate).
There is no real practical need for a 6L bottle say.. its purely there for people to be able to show off and as a result a significant premium is attached to the bigger bottles not accounted for in the actual additional costs incurred by the manufacturer.
There is no real practical need for a 6L bottle say.. its purely there for people to be able to show off and as a result a significant premium is attached to the bigger bottles not accounted for in the actual additional costs incurred by the manufacturer.
I really detest that term. It sounds like a spoiled 5 year old. It seems nobody can come up with anything original.
Not immoral, but pointless, no one is impressed and if you swapped it for a $1000 bottle I guarantee they wouldn't notice, it would be a placebo and they'd all be raving about how amazing it was
But some people are impressed - that's the point of it.
I'm not impressed. You're not impressed. He neither knows nor cares about that. We're not the people he's interested in.
A display of wealth (and therefore power) for the sake of it is nothing new and the intended target for it is always other people who are rich or powerful (and usually both), either to assert victory over the competition or to woo co-operation from people with enough power to be useful to them. A medieval aristocrat serving gilded marchpane for dessert at the feast they provided for 50 people wasn't doing it to impress the servants and they hadn't picked the guests at random.
He might even have used it for tax avoidance purposes, claiming it as a business expense. Considering the business he's in, it is a business expense.
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With bottles that size, they're total mark ups. They are not even properly made in the bottles. They're made in normal sized bottles and then decanted in to the larger bottles. Anything over a Magnum is done in this way, so you'll always have a blend. Notice they don't have a vintage on them? Again, due to the mixing involved. You will get a better bottle of champagne out of a 75cl bottle.
Oh, and it's not immoral. I'm sure he's at a point where it means a hell of a lot less to him. Money becomes a little worthless to a degree, when you have that much!
Oh, and it's not immoral. I'm sure he's at a point where it means a hell of a lot less to him. Money becomes a little worthless to a degree, when you have that much!
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Daily Troll. Quite funny though, given their continuous courting of 'celebrities' and their lifestyle stories. That rag is just vomit.
OP, lying about who you are is immoral, and a sin if I'm not mistaken. You really are racking up those hell passes on this forum alone, what else do you get up to IRL? Is this the reason for your feverish religious babble i.e. overcompensating?