[marichanel26]

i hope not

[cammy1]

when i did ask a chanel sa about 2 weeks ag she said there would not be one for a while because they just had one in Nov 07- so hopefully we can all rest

[vikianderson]

[Orchidlady]

I'm crossing my fingers...

[Classic Chic]

hopefully not, the recent price hikeS was becuase there hadn't been one since 05. Wish i could grab all the color flaps back then. So hopefully there will be none for this year *knock on wood*

[Cudaswifey]

My SA tells me its in February.

[layla]

As long as the bags 'continue to fly off the shelf' and as long as resellers continue to buy Chanel and resell them on the gray market, future price hikes are basically guaranteed. There wouldn't be any reason, that I know of, which would prevent Chanel from continuing with their clever marketing strategy.

Retailers Limit Purchases of Designer Handbagshttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/fa...in&oref=slogin

[rexinechantell]

i don't know if she was telling me this to scare me into purchasing a particular bag i was looking at but.. SA at NM a few days ago told me there may be one in the next month..?!?

[LVuittonLover]

WTH? Wasnt there JUST a price increase. Damn!!

[gracexu]

When I called my SA in HK yesterday, she told me there might be another increase in Feb.too. OH NO.......

[missisa07]

^I've heard that as well. No concrete dates as of yet though. My SA told me the next price increase would most likely be on the bags not affected by the Nov 1 increase (so most likely the classics won't get increased again). She also said it probably won't be as dramatic of an increase as the 22% one that happened in Nov.

I'm so glad I built up a majority of my collection already. Just need 1 or 2 more Chanels (this time I need COLOR, my collection is full of black & white!). Hopefully I'll be able to buy them before the next price increase hits!

[Celia_Hish]

OMG! another price increase on feb...which is next mth where our chinese new year is around the corner too.

[i_wona]

I think that the 08 bags are higher priced anyway - haven't the reissues been, er, reissued at a higher price for 08? So technically, there hasn't been a official price increase, but the bags are release with a higher retial price.

Correct me if I'm wrong!

[layla]

"Researchers from Stanford University and California Institute of Technology found that inflating the price of a product -- in this case red wine -- led to increased activity in a region of the brain that "encodes" subjective pleasantness. The study results offer insights into the "neural" effects of marketing, suggesting that the perceived price of a product affects a person's enjoyment of that product, the scientists said.

For Rangel, neuromarketing is a scientific -- not a commercial -- pursuit. "We want to understand how environmental variables such as pricing affect the computations that the brain makes to make decisions," he said.

"This new study seems to shed some valuable light on some of the neural mechanisms behind what makes something seem attractive, flavorful, or pleasant, and may be important in providing additional evidence of just how the Herculean investments in marketing pay off by operating beneath the radar of the more conscious, reasoning components of our minds," Hanson said.

"In addition, it may suggest one of the ways in which consumers deal with the cognitive dissonance of paying a steep price for something -- 'We enjoy our purchase, more precisely, because we paid more," he said.



Study Spotlights Marketing's Impact on the Brain
http://www.healthcentral.com/Printer...08/611659.html

[missisa07]

^Another article similar to that:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/fa...in&oref=slogin

Crazily enough, I could relate a lot to this article.. Not a good thing!