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Who Is Buying Skymall’s $300 ‘Harry Potter’ Broomstick?

Who Is Buying Skymall's $300 'Harry Potter' Broomstick?

I’ve never understood who the intended audience of SkyMall magazines were supposed to be? People with so much disposable income and laziness that they would rather purchase a piece of fake grass for their dog to poop on indoors than actually take for a walk? The guy who desperately needs a bottled water maker in life, right now? The billionaire too busy to actually go to a shop and buy something nice, but has some downtime in business class?

But as ridiculous as the products are, the magazine still continues to exist, meaning that someone out there is buying this crap. And with the introduction of the $300 Firebolt Broom Replica from the Harry Potter collection that a friend found online today, we realized that the intended audience might be us. More »