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Louis Vuitton is getting into the fitness game, with the luxury brand’s first entry being a pair of 6 lbs dumbbells at a retail price of $2,720.
I know your first reaction is to scoff at that because, you know, you’re broke and your natural broke tendencies are overriding your thinking faculties.
Sure, you should normally expect to pay anywhere in the ballpark of $1.50 to $2.00 per pound of weight for dumbbells.
However, we’re not living in normal times!!!
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic forcing the closure of gyms across the land, regular gym-goers have had to scramble to set up home gyms, making workout equipment a sizzling hot commodity.
Well, you don’t need to be Alfred Marshall to understand what that means!
Yup, driven by supply and demand (and outright greed), sellers on Ebay, Craigslist, and elsewhere are charging exorbitant sums for weights.
In fact, those profiteers are charging such ridiculous markups for fitness equipment that when you do the math, $2,720 for a pair of 6 lbs Louis Vuitton dumbbells that aren’t going to do shit for your body is actually a bargain!
