Yes, You Can Finance a Near-Orbit Ticket From Your Smartphone
If your Cyber Monday cart still tops out at an air fryer and some half-off sweats, you’re thinking too small.
In 2025, the same thumb you use to doomscroll can quietly commit you to a gold-plated toilet, a 550,000-euro watch or a $125,000 ticket to the edge of space. No personal shopper, no hushed boutique, just a browser tab and a strong credit limit.
Cyber Monday has grown up, and not just in volume. Last year was the biggest online shopping day on record, with consumers in the United States spending roughly $13.3 billion, according to Adobe (or $12.8 billion, if you ask Salesforce). Most of that flowed through phones, where more than half of Cyber Monday sales now happen.
This year, the high end is crashing the party. TikTok Shop, once the internet’s impulse-buy dollar store, is now hosting $11,000 Hermès and Chanel handbags, plus Rolex and Cartier watches, right in the feed, according to Bloomberg.
So, for this Weekender, we went hunting for the absolute top of the top. Here are the strangest, splashiest things you can actually buy or book online this Cyber Monday.
1. TikTok Shop turns your FYP into a Hermès trunk show
TikTok’s commerce experiment has officially left the cheap gadgets era. TikTok Shop now features $11,000 handbags from Hermès and Chanel, plus rare, limited-drop sneakers from collaborators like Louis Vuitton and Nike, along with Rolex and Cartier watches—many of them pre-owned and artificial intelligence-authenticated by resellers, per Bloomberg.
In other words, Generation Z can now impulse-add a five-figure bag to cart between GRWM videos. For TikTok, it’s a statement. If you’ll trust the algorithm to surface your news and your music, why not your next heirloom asset?
2. A $2 million diamond ring with a “buy now” button
On luxury marketplace 1stDibs, you can scroll past mid-century chairs and land on a GIA-certified, 26-carat, cushion-cut diamond engagement ring in platinum, listed at $2,000,000 (down from $2,500,000) with a bright “buy now” call-to-action.
This is the logical endgame of luxury eCommerce. A piece of jewelry that would once have required an introduction, a vault and a glass of champagne now lives behind the same user experience pattern as a phone case. You don’t negotiate in a salon; you authenticate with 3D Secure.
3. Gold smart toilets, the original throne economy
At Royal Toiletry Global, a whole category simply called “Gold Toilets” invites you to pick a favorite. There’s a “Royal Sphere Gold and White Smart Toilet,” “The Golden Majesty Toilet,” and other models, many priced between $2,000 and $3,299.
These are high-temperature ceramic toilets finished with thick gold electroplating, marketed as abrasion-resistant, easy to clean and shipped anywhere via DHL, FedEx or UPS. The shopping journey is pure direct-to-consumer. Filter by price, sort by popularity, zoom in on the sparkle and check out. Cyber Monday deals on literal golden thrones are very much a thing.
4. Rent a private island by the week, starting around $250,000
On the villa platform My Private Villas, private islands are presented like slightly extravagant Airbnbs. Listings like Cheval Blanc Randheli Private Island in the Maldives start around $245,000 per week, while North Island in the Seychelles clocks in at 840,000 euros (about $974,000) per week and Over Yonder Cay in the Bahamas at $357,000 per week.
The flow is familiar. Browse photo galleries, scan the weekly rate, hit “view more,” add to your shortlist, and begin a booking inquiry entirely online. The UX is optimized for the same behaviors as booking a beach condo—just with a line item that looks more like a seed round.
5. Antarctica, from $71,000 a person
White Desert, the company that turned Antarctica into a luxury destination, lets you start booking its trips online, including “Early Emperors” from $71,000 per person for a 5- to 6-day expedition and “South Pole & Emperor Penguins” from $110,000 for a 7- to 8-day expedition.
You register your interest through a digital form, choose adventures, and White Desert’s team takes it from there. Think private jet, luxury eco-camps and champagne picnics on a glacier. Cyber Monday, meet carbon-intensive bucket list.
6. Neiman Marcus Fantasy Gifts, still gloriously extra
Neiman Marcus’ storied Fantasy Gifts now live as a slick digital catalog, where this year’s lineup ranges from around $47,000 to $500,000. A Christian Louboutin custom Western saddle at roughly $47,000 headlines one end of the range, while other “once-in-a-lifetime” experiences climb into mid-six figures.
You don’t exactly add to cart a half-million-dollar fantasy gift, but you do start by clicking through online and calling Neiman Marcus for more details. It’s luxury as lead-gen funnel.
7. $125,000 to the edge of space, payable by credit card (or crypto)
Space Perspective sells seats on its Spaceship Neptune flights—pressurized capsules that float to the edge of space—directly via its booking site. An “Individual Space Explorer Seat” runs $125,000, secured with a $1,000 refundable deposit that you can put on a credit card or pay with Coinbase.
The page reads a lot like any high-end travel checkout: quantity selector, customer details and card fields. The difference is the product copy: Wi-Fi, a “Space Lounge,” and panoramic windows instead of ocean views and turn-down service. Space tourism is now just another SKU in the global digital catalog.
8. A 550,000-euro Richard Mille you can slip into your cart
On the Watches World marketplace, a Richard Mille RM17-01 Manual Winding Tourbillon appears in the product grid at 550,000 euros, with a straightforward “buy now” option.
The site invites you to treat a half-million-euro timepiece like any other online purchase. Click, and proceed to checkout. No velvet rope, no appointment, just an eCommerce stack capable of handling 3D Secure and international shipping on something you’d normally buy in a heavily guarded boutique.
The punchline of all this isn’t that rich people buy ridiculous things; we knew that. It’s that the infrastructure of everyday digital commerce now comfortably handles everything from a $20 gadget to a $2 million ring without changing its basic choreography of scroll, tap, pay and ship.
Cyber Monday used to be the day retailers convinced you to spend a little more. In 2025, it’s the day your phone can casually offer you a new life on a private island, in Antarctica or 20 miles above sea level, all for the price of a single click.
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