would also love to hear stories of all the troubles we go through to find chanels that we have to have.
which elusive chanel were you able to locate due to the wonderful members here
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I could locate a grey reissue in the US because if the wonderful me-love-purse. All reissues were sold out in Europe and I went through a lot of trouble getting her because Saks had problems to charge my cc (foreign card) and ship to a Californian hotel address where dh stayed at the time to bring it back with him. Saks totally xxxxxxxxxx it up and one day before the agreed shipping date they send out the bag to Saks L.A where dh was so kind to drive 2h and do a local pick up. I had several calls with the Saks and my SA there was such a doll and made it all happen. Me-love called a lot of stores for me to locate the bag and it's wonderful that we became friends through this. So now I have my dream bag and a new dear friend!
Rockerchic posted info about the smaller Ritz I was looking for, leading to my purchase from the wonderful (but gone) Nick at the Short Hills boutique.
It's not a Chanel bag, but I have to share the story of the wonderful aaalabama! I was searching for a black Balenciaga with a particular leather last year, and she spotted 1 for me in NYC. When I called to ask about it, a SA was so rude and not helpful, and I was nervous about getting the wrong bag. So aaalabama called the store for me, ran into the same rude SA, and finally went to the store IN PERSON to put the right bag on hold for me to do a charge send!!!! Talk about going above and beyond, for a person she's never met! 
i got both the original coco cabas vinyl and black baby cabas caviar both from help by sweet fellow PFers....
i am still looking for mine- the violet classic flap in either medium or jumbo. i've called every dept store in the us (though not sure if i called bergdorfs), 2 chanels including the main store on 57th in manhattan, the 800 number, had someone check for me in paris and spent about an hour today calling stores in canada. it looks like she'll never be mine. i should have gotten the one on ebay when i had the chance...
