Conspicuous consumption just makes me ill. Make a nice chicken coop out of plywood and use the rest of the money to donate chickens to Heifer International.

And people wonder why trickle-down economics doesn't work.

This. Because one person with a billion dollars buys only slightly more items than a minimum wage worker. They just are more likely to buy ridiculously expensive versions...which employ no more people to make.

This makes me so sad as a human being.

I mean, it's not even like it's optimized for the chickens. If they had managed to find 100K in chicken-life-enhancing improvements, or even human-labor-saving devices...but this is a joke.

The purpose of NM fantasy gifts isn't actually to sell them. I mean sure, if someone buys one that's great for NM. It's purpose is to draw attention and press and blog posts to the company, wherein consumers buy other items. It's free publicity every year for a retail company that makes most of its profits over the holidays. Complaining about consumption and how the chickens are mistreated is just entirely missing the point.

I'd love to see the pictures of this after a month's use. Would probably have to hire someone to keep all the details clean.
Looks pretty as a photo though.

in which parallel universe would someone spend 100k on this? Who would fantasize about a gift like this? Neiman Marcus is grossly out of touch with reality - this borders on the psychotic!

This is outrageous, no doubt. But the jetpack for $99,500: you don't see anyone making fun of that because secretly everybody wants one...

Nice photo... and then everything gets covered in chicken poop. What a waste.

First I read about Kate Gosslin suggesting people save on memberships to public pools by buying their own private pools, now this?

I'm sure this coop would look lovely next to Romney's dancing horse, but only if they install it BEHIND the car elevator in their vacation home.

I pay $1,000 a month to live in a 350 sq ft studio apartment at a busy intersection in a bad neighborhood.

F'in chickens.

I need to see square footage on this.

LMAO! on the energy spent talking bad about it! We ALL know it's ridiculous, but yet amusing... I wonder how differntly people would speak of it if it was considered "art" ? It's just funny.....and we've all seen/heard of worse examples of ridiculous consumption and marketing.....

Ditto what DonaldN said.

Another example was when Victoria's Secret sold the million dollar bras for the holidays. They didn't really have people purchasing them, but it got them a lot of publicity they might not otherwise have had.

April Fools Day already?

It's what NM does, putting a price on a play on words. If one wants to rant (or cluck), it's the accompanying other articles for the 1 peckcent chicken owners (groan).

Is this really a "Finally" moment? I'd be more inclined to consider it a "Why" moment.

It makes more sense upon further investigation. The heritage breed hens are of the golden egg laying variety (the coop pays for itself after a month , excellent ROI !) And several of the books in the included library are first edition,antique, rare and/or signed copies! What a deal actually. I'm adjusting my monocle and placing my order as we speak.

Bet it comes with a house keeper.... sigh

And some of these comments prove (once again) that there needs to be a specific font for sarcasm.

HA! This is hysterical, love it! Actually, if you have a chicken coop, why not hang your thrift store find to it?! Ha! Too funny, very entertaining and interesting. It almost looks like a Ralph Lauren ad, but with chickens instead of horses.

Wipin tears here after reading all the comments. Laughter is good medicine. Now, please define the term "genetic diversity" (used in the last line of the Beau Coop details). Inquiring minds want to know...

...asking, "How would you like your eggs this morning?".

Why stop at a 100k chicken coop. What about a hip hamster dig: like underwater rooms inside a volcano setting aka Bond villan style? Or a dog palace with a maze garden, swimming pools and a Juliet balcony for some where-are-thou-dog-romeo moments?
Chicken coop.... ppsshh so peasant...

Hilarious! And what could be a more perfect satire for the week in which a gazillion dollars were spent so a guy could skydive from a weather balloon? At least you can get some eggs out of a $100,000 chicken coop...

Heritage breeds? The one rooster is an Easter Egger--not heritage by any means.

Sigh.....

LIGHTEN UP!!!!
This is the best doll/play house ever! Even without the chickens! The juxtaposition of the eggs and chandelier is simply hilarious.

There are more affordable, yet great looking design solutions for backyard chickens. see this chicken ark