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I'm sorry to be the Economics nerd in a forum that really has nothing to do with it but sense you guys have brought it up... $15 million a year is COMPLETELY deserved. Victoria's Secret made $900 Million dollars a year last year in direct sales and $2.4 Billion in online and catalogue sales. It employs more then 3.800 clerks and probably about as many people when you factor in corporate office, shipping, warehouses, marketing etc, which is pretty nice for our whole economy. There are numerous competitors, (Trust me,) out there in the world that can and do provide comperable product for less money. Fredericks of Hollywood litterally makes less then 1/16 as much a year. What Victoria's Secret cashes in on is the mystique, the image, and the allure of the Victoria's Secret name. What other company can put on what is basically an hour long informicial on primetime network TV FOR FREE and get more then 2 million people in this country alone (Maybe as many as 4 million when you factor in Youtube, forums like this, overseas etc.)? Would anybody watch the fashion show without the models? Would people be as excited about the catalogues? Would people go on forums like this and look at there marketing in thier spare time? Probably not. By and by, as of 2006 (I don't know about lately,) products modelled by Alle sold more then those modelled by anyone else in the catalogue consistantly. So when you consider that thier most succesfull (In sales terms) model makes less then 0.04% of the profit who can argue with that? Its the way are system works, its capitalism. Should we change it? Maybe, I think maybe we should but that's how it is and models, actors and athletes shouldn't have to play by different rules then the CEOs who make Billions off of thier images. Anyway, that's my point. Sorry I went on for so long.

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