Olsen Twins Can't Meet Demand For $39,000 Alligator Backpacks

[Kat45]

Unbelievable! More evidence that the 1% are the only ones with money today. A 39K backpack is selling out! This backpack costs more than my annual salary has ever been (when I actually had a job). Disgusting!


http://www.cinemablend.com/pop/Olsen-Twins-Can-t-Meet-Demand-39-000-Alligator-Backpacks-35804.html

[Orrex]

1. This is actually a serious issue

I received the first seven bags that I ordered, but I still have five on back order.

What the hell is wrong with this country when a person can't get a dozen alligator bags on demand?!?

[vets74]

27. Try eBay. Last Christmas the used ones went for $12,800. Here's mine.

When the new gloss wears off, who'd even want one ?

[Arugula Latte]

45. Alligator is so 2010.

I've moved on to platypus.

[Kurovski]

57. LOL

[notadmblnd]

2. What? There's a shortage of cheap labor in China?

[SomethingFishy]

3. Nah.. a shortage of fat alligators...

:)

[Fla_Democrat]

47. Not down here,

but.. we're working on that.





:smoke:

[madaboutharry]

4. If I saw that on the street, I would think it comes from Target.

[Liberal_in_LA]

31. me too

[MADem]

32. Bingo--looks like plastic...and it is butt ugly, too! nt

[Booster]

5. I can think of a lot better things to do with $39,000. Disgusting.

[hifiguy]

8. Agreed.

:puke:

[louslobbs]

43. Most "normal" people can, it's those fat and unhappy 1% that need to gratify self with obnoxious

things like that cheap looking pocketbook (pockabook?), that only the few, who have mostly stolen their way to the top could or would want to show others they can afford......in their world, it's all about looking good. Let's see.........help feed, house, cloth and provide medical care for those in need, or buy ugly ass, overpriced, ostentatious hand bag to gratify self at that given moment. These are generally unhappy people for the most part who try to buy the happiness and contentment that they sorely lack in their pathetic existence.
Lou

[Booster]

46. Agreed. How stupid do you have to be to pay $39,000 for a

butt-ugly backpack? Even if I was filthy rich I wouldn't buy one.

[blueamy66]

51. agreed as well

OMG

[Enrique]

6. not worth it, imho

[EOTE]

10. Yeah, that's worth 35k, 37k tops.

Only suckers pay retail.

[Botany]

7. as long as they use American gators, American labor to

make that piece of shit, the U.S. post office to ship them, and the store that sells them hires and pays
Americans a good wage w/ benefits fine w/ me.

My guess is that some people who buy stuff like that wind up broke ...... pro athletes, entertainers, and
lottery winners.

[-..__...]

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[Greybnk48]

9. They're a couple of vile, vulgar little pimps.

I hope people start hitting those backpacks with some lovely shade of spray paint.

[hamsterjill]

11. Absolutely horrible.

I'm one of the 99%...

$39,000 sure could feed a lot of people.

[Permanut]

12. ...and I thought the $500 bags at Macy's were outrageous...n/t

[vets74]

Bingo !

At least in New York the street vendors have the 2nds/knock-offs at $10/$20 for anything.

(My wife's an addict. Yeah, a handbag addict.)

[denverbill]

13. I really think a 5% tax increase on millionaires is too small.n/t

[treestar]

14. The twins can't make them fast enough?

Makes me wonder - where are they made? At that price, they could afford US labor.

[sakabatou]

15. What kid would need an alligator backpack?

[Initech]

18. Actually the question should be why does a backpack cost as much as a Mercedes C-Class?

[sakabatou]

21. Sky-high mark-ups.

[jmowreader]

33. Hazardous-duty pay for the people who collect the hides. What else would it be?

Look at the picture again: that came off a big-ass alligator, I'm here to tell ya.

[Initech]

35. They should get the guys from Jackass to do it, then they wouldn't need the hazard pay!

:evilgrin:

[jmowreader]

52. Or we wouldn't have to risk the spectre of another Jackass movie

Either one would be fine with me.

[Initech]

16. WTF!!!! And I passed on buying a new car because I couldn't afford the $5K down payment!

:grr: :argh: :grr: :argh: :grr: :argh: :grr: :argh: :grr: :argh: :grr: :argh: :grr: :argh: :grr: :argh: :grr: :argh:

[Crabby Appleton]

19. How many alligators have a spare $39,000 to blow on a backpack?

[pinboy3niner]

22. About 1%

:)

[Sabriel]

26. And it's not like they can read, either.

What on earth would they carry in there...dead birds?

[pinboy3niner]

28. They'd carry polo players and golfers

It's a carrion bag. :)

[eridani]

53. DUzy! n/t

[Bjorn Against]

20. Let me guess, it was purchased by fiscal conservatives that tell us we need to tighten our belts

[Autumn Colors]

23. Do they come with Corexit? (nt)

[JBoy]

24. #notevenafirstworldproblem

[The Doctor.]

25. For $39K I'd better be able to fit several alligators in one.

With plenty of breathing room for them too.

[thelordofhell]

29. Somebody needs to tell these oil sheiks

The Olsen Twins are over 18 now

[Atman]

30. I bet I could fetch a lot more for backpacks made out of the Olsen twins.

Just sayin.

[MADem]

34. Do those two anorexics have enough skin to make a coin purse, never mind a backpack? nt

[KamaAina]

36. That actually sounds like a fair price

as long as they're made with live 'gators, thus sparing us any future Olsen twins fluff. :evilgrin:

[krabigirl]

37. Disgusting and barbaric. Shame on them. Why does one need an alligator skin bag?

[Taverner]

38. Yes. Exactly.

And I'm not even a vegetarian

[-..__...]

39. Why does one need a kangaroo scrotum carry pouch?

http://www.australiagift.com/scrotum_shop/

:shrug:

[BOHICA12]

64. Because after you harvest them for meat .... you have a

great lizard skin. On my bucket list ... a pair of gator skin boots .... GO NOLES!

[SoCalDem]

40. Makes me feel a bit less guilty for spending $175.00 for a pair of shoes

:blush:

I draw the line there though.. never more than $150 for a leather purse..and usually bargain price for everything else, but dammit I just HAD to have those shoes:)..and life is short

[eridani]

54. If they last 6 times as long as a pair of $35 shoes, you're ahead

That's the problem with being poor--those kinds of money-saving opportunities are closed off to them.

[SoCalDem]

55. Finn-Comfort shoes are fantastic and should "outlive" me

:)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

65. I used to buy Italian shoes because i have a narrow foot.

You can get them resoled and reheeled and they are soft and comfy and last a long time.

[Capitalocracy]

41. Wow! It's cruel AND useless AND ridiculously expensive!

I'll take three!

[Initech]

48. The rich douchebag trifecta..

[frylock]

42. what a croc

[louslobbs]

44. lol.....for real. n/t

Lou

[NYC_SKP]

49. They are really quite scarey looking to me, there's a disturbed empty expression on their faces.

[salin]

50. Buyers are arrogant and entitled.

assumes that their gargantuan money flow will continue in perpetuity. Spending a family's annual income on a single purchase as small as a back pack - obscene. But the 1% has no shame and no sense of the obscene.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

59. exactly, it is the same attitude that

wants to know why you can't live on $7.50 an hour, what is wrong with you, lazy ass.

[Raine]

56. Those thing are HIDEOUS!

:puke:

[Edweird]

58. Yeah, and their handbags look cheap, too.

[Lizzie Poppet]

62. *sprays coffee*

:rofl:

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

60. it is not so much that they are ugly, (they are),

but so cheap and plastic looking.

As Nina Garcia would say, I question their taste level.

[MilesColtrane]

63. The backpack is ugly too!

[Lizzie Poppet]

61. To paraphrase Wednesday Addams:

Are they made from real Olsen Twins?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

66. That is just OBSCENE.

Alligator and crocodile are beautiful, but ain't no way that is worth thirty-five big ones.

[Douglas Carpenter]

67. how sad to think of the poor souls who have to wait for their $39,000 Alligator backpacks

Life is just so unfair.

[pinboy3niner]

68. Crocodile tears--nice touch!

:rofl: