I know how frustrating that is. Its happened to me at times too - I go into the store with information/item number from the drilldown and they look at me like I have three heads and that I broke some Coach top secret code by knowing about things that arent released yet. Dont they have access to the drilldown at the stores like we do?!
YES! My store did this to me last night too. I was talking about the new strawberry charm and I was explaining to the SA what it looked like but I forgot to bring the sytle number with me. After looking at me like I was crazy for 5 mins she finally just said, "Well, if it isnt' released yet you can't use the discount on it anyway." They always want to know HOW I know about these things. When I tell them I belong to this online forum about purses, they look at me as though I should be committed to an institution. LOL