Oprah admitted that if the purse was $38,000 then she wouldn’t have bought it anyway.
Oprah just wanted the clerk to climb up the ladder to that top shelf and bring it down so she could look at it and reject it making the clerk have to then climb back up to put it back.
The clerk wasn’t going to play step and fetch it for her and that’s what got Oprah bent out of shape. She made a snarky comment and then left the store.
Here is Oprah in her own words from the Daily Mail:
‘To be honest, if I had known upfront what this damned bag cost, do you know what? The woman was right: I would not have bought the thing - far too expensive! Too expensive! $38,000! I would have fainted when I saw the price tag.’
She continued: ‘The saleslady said it was the Jennifer Aniston bag that was created by Tom Ford for Jennifer. The idea went through my head that I should call Jennifer or Tom - I know them both very well.
Instead I said to the saleslady: “Okay, I understand. The bag is just for Jennifer, and only she is allowed to buy it, right?
‘The woman said “no, no” and tried to explain something. But I was no longer listening. I just said: “Thank you very much, you’re probably right that I can’t afford it.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392778/Oprah-Winfrey-insists-WAS-victim-racism-Swiss-store-nearly-called-Jennifer-Aniston-tell-her.html#ixzz2bzYjXXNA
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“Oprah just wanted the clerk to climb up the ladder to that top shelf and bring it down so she could look at it and reject it making the clerk have to then climb back up to put it back.
The clerk wasn’t going to play step and fetch it for her and that’s what got Oprah bent out of shape. She made a snarky comment and then left the store.”
This is exactly what I understood when I heard the clerks story.
‘The woman said “no, no” and tried to explain something. But I was no longer listening.
Sales assistant probably told her the bag was designed for skinny white girls