‘Confused about the price’: Sydney mum’s $13,000 act divides online
A Sydney woman has divided by sharing her $13,000 mistake with some calling the story “gold” and others finding it “tone deaf”.
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A Sydney woman has caused a divide by sharing how she accidentally spent $13,000 on shoes during a cost-of-living crisis.
Elle Salagaras, 29, lives in Sydney and runs the popular TikTok account Eastern Suburbs Mum, which has racked up over 2 million likes.
While many influencers, particularly mums, build their audience on being relatable, Ms Salagaras instead shares her affluent life with followers.
Instead of going with the warts and all social media overshare approach, the 29-year-old is likelier to share content about her Birkin bag.
Naturally, she took to social media to share the moment she spent far more than she bargained for at the luxury store Hermes.
Ms Salagaras explained that she decided to purchase a pair of the brand’s iconic Chypre Sandals.
The starting price for this design is just over $1700, but the cost goes up depending on the material used.
The young mum picked up a particularly expensive pair, worth $13,155, made from crocodile and sheep skin.
The slides look casual and cosy, not unlike Birkenstocks, but the pair Ms Salagaras purchased cost more than what some people spend on their cars.
Ms Salagaras then made a TikTok showing off her new shoes and calling them “gorg,” but she admitted that she didn’t expect to spend that much.
After waving the shoes around in front of the camera, she explained that she’d never intended to outlay so much.
“I definitely got very confused about the price, which is my fault. I had heard one number … so embarrassing,” she said.
Ms Salagaras said she already had them on her feet when she went to the checkout because she planned to wear them out of the store. When she heard the price, she was thrown, but she just said, “It’s fine,” and bought them anyway.
“We are committing to the shoe. I should have known Hermes,” she said.
Ms Salagaras didn’t mention how much they cost, but people looked them up and quickly expressed their shock.
“The price. I’m dead,” one wrote.
“The price! Oh my god,” another said.
It wasn’t just people freaking out over the price, people were also sharing how much they loved the shoes.
One praised them as “so pretty,” and another called them “stunning,” but others just couldn’t get over how much she spent on the sandals.
Someone called it “ridiculous” to spend that much, another called her sharing her expensive shoes “embarrassing,” and others just claimed the shoes were “ugly” and certainly not worth the price tag.
“What utter nonsense,” one complained.
“No footwear is worth that amount of money,” someone else argued.
“So many people starving in Australia and she goes and buys these (because) she makes heaps of money from her 52,000 followers. Disgusting,” another complained.
Someone else said it was “tone-deaf” for her to post about spending that much on shoes, and another claimed she was “showing off,” which they found offensive.
Meanwhile, Ms Salagaras wasn’t letting the negative feedback get her down. She posted a TikTok of herself dancing with her $13,000 sandals to the tune of Britney Spears.
Originally published as ‘Confused about the price’: Sydney mum’s $13,000 act divides online
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