I agree..MJ bags seem to always go on sale AFTER I pay full price..That disturbs me alot!They do NOT hold their value as well as LV and Chanel...
Agree with Jill, Harlem_Cutie, Elongreach. I hestitate to pay full price for styles that are also sold at non-MJ stores. My good friend & I like several bags at the boutique, but she noted that she will wait since his bags go on sale. We would pay full price for store exclusive styles at boutiques, there's no chance of them being marked down elsewhere.
It's not as simple as we think, the styles and colors are planned way ahead of their release dates. Look Books for Resort 06 & S/S 07 collections were already available when F/W 06 items started arriving in stores. Stores are still receiving the last delivery of Resort 06 and beginning to get the 1st delivery of S/S07 items now, F/W 07 items are being planned already. There are times when designers are wrong about what consumers will like and dislike.
F/W 06's Hudson & Blondie were big hits, they were sold out at MJ boutiques. They are back by popular demand for S/S 07 (unplanned) even though they weren't listed in S/S 07 Look Book (out months ago).
QUILTED SIGNATURE LEATHER/NYLON (with MARC JACOBS on the items) lines are being made in many colors for both R06 & S/S 07; bags from these lines are not moving at MJ boutiques.
SOFT CALF CLASSIC styles (Venetia, Blake) have been around for so long, they are still strong; Venetia (debuted in year 2000) is still being made after all these years. New Stella was discontinued even though it was still very popular at the time. The basic and popular colors usually don't make their ways to outlets.
The first 3 seasons of Stam (F/W 05, R05, S/S 06) did well. I guess that every store started stocking them as a result, they wouldn't know in advance if bags wouldn't continue to sell. I don't know if more Stams were made for F/W 06 or not, they just didn't sell out like they used to for whatever reason (leather, colors, people getting tired of them, too many knock-offs, etc); some boutiques think sales slow down because people already have Stams.