dont throw tomatoes at me but anyone else feeling that louis vuitton quality is lacking? i mean we spend hundreds to thousands on these bags and they need to constantly be babied and pampered. i've heard of the vernis bags getting discolored, multicolored bags lining turning the white canvas red, dentelle lace coming loose and canvas splitting. i can understand taking good care of your bags, but a bag is meant to be worn and every place i go i know if i want to keep up the look of the bag i have to worry about how im holding it, where i put it down etc etc etc. if these bags are so expensive, why cant they make the bag so the vachetta doesnt patina ( i know they say its a selling point, but come on i know of more people who aboslutly hate the patina than people who like it plus it looks dirty IMO), the canvas never splits and the vernis bags never discolor? in the past ive had cheap $10 leather bags and never had a problem with them and they looked the same as the day i bought it. some of you might say it is the nature of the bag, but i simply think that a $1,000 bag can be made so these "flaws" can be improved. and so i ask you, what is your take on the quality?
Sorry, many things to respond to so I will use point form
- people baby their bags because they want to keep it in good shape. That goes for almost anything. And as well, since Vuitton uses vachetta which changes colour, and people sometimes want their vachetta as light as possible, they will baby their bags
- canvas is canvas. Just because it's from an LV bag doesn't mean it will last *forever*. We pay tons of money for cars and the windshield cracks with use. Just because it's a ton of money doesn't mean we should get a windshield that doesn't crack
- most kinds of patent leather *will* yellow over time. I've seen horrendous patent leather bags.
- personally, I would not put down ANY purse on the floor, whether it's a $30 or $900 bag. This is a matter of personal choice. Keeping an LV in good shape does not require you to do all those things you mentioned.
- about the vachetta, I think it's a characteristic of LV bags. Of course they do have bags that don't have vachetta; at least they have a variety. IMO if you have a problem with vachetta, buy the bag in a different line (ie Epi Lockit instead of Mono Lockit) that doesn't have vachetta.
Personally, I think yes, we are spending a lot of money on these bags and quality is very very important, but even high designer products have flaws too. Every company does. If their products don't have problems, then what's the repair workshop/customer service for??