Snubbed China shopper makes luxury shop staff count US$84,000 cash for 2 hours then leaves
- Wealthy woman with grudge shows stand-offish sales assistants at Louis Vuitton store that revenge is dish best served cold
Mainland social media has taken delight in an act of revenge meted out to the staff of a luxury brand store by a wealthy woman in China.
Describing it as the “most spleen-venting incident of the year”, the woman, who felt she had been snubbed by staff at a Louis Vuitton (LV) outlet, returned to the store with 600,000 yuan (US$84,000) in cash two months later to get her own back.
The woman, who uses the alias xiaomayouren on the social media platform Xiaohongshu, shared her “infuriating” experience at the StarLight Place shopping centre in Chongqing, southwestern China, in June, Sohu news outlet reported.
In the initial exchange, the woman, carrying a Hermes handbag, said she went to the LV outlet to buy clothes and staff behaved in a stand-offish way towards her.
They ignored her request for drinking water and merely pointed to old seasonal garments while she hoped to see the new arrivals.
They even rolled their eyes and looked impatient when she asked them to show her some dresses to fit.