So why not "Please Purchase Responsibly"?
Hermes, Tiffany, Cartier, Gucci: think about it. It would at least show you've given some respect to the 99% and some thought about today's inequalities.
And it would be ... considerate.
Note: Yes there is a diamond encrusted iPad. It's cost: $20,000:
Mervis Diamond Importers now offers "the world's first diamond iPad" for a rather steep $19,999. The princely "pad has been crusted with 11.43 carats worth of diamonds, hand set in the micro-pave style. For rock aficionados wondering just what they're getting, the stones have been graded G/H for color and VS/Sl1 for clarity.
*Thorsten Veblen, as quoted in Of Diamonds and Desires: Understanding Conspicuous Consumption from a Contemporary Marketing Perspective, by Himadri Roy Chaudhuri and Sitanath Majumdar, University of Calcutta.
**In my town of San Francisco, the store is simply referred to as "Needless Markup."
*** No use to bring in the "But they're REAL" meme. A Rolex knock off can look just a good and keep time just as well. Purchasing (as well as investing in) "reality" is more ephemeral and risky than people think.
**** Neither the NYPD nor it's pension fund qualifies as a charity, or, if they do, should not.
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