A few weeks ago, I purchased Giant Cafe Part-Time from NM's Short Hills. After a few days I looked at it in detail and realized that in the crack between the bottom piece of leather and the leather of the body, there was so much white showing all along this crack, almost like glue that has discolored the leather. I took it back to NM's and my SA was surprised too. She took out like 4 other GGH Cafe PTs and ALL OF THEM had this same problem. I looked at all the other PTs there and none of them had this issue. She did a charge-send for me and today the bag arrived from Florida. THE SAME PROBLEM IS THERE! It's not as noticeable, but it's there. Then I noticed there was pieces of white thread hanging out all along the zipper of the outside pocket. I pulled on it and w/some resistance, the hanging pieces came off. THEN as I'm trying to clean that mess up, I notice the stitching all around the zipper of that pocket was completely crooked. As in, half the stitching was high up and noticeably farther away from the zipper than the other half. When I called my SO over to express my severe surprise and disappointment, he noticed that the studs at the bottom of the front of the bag were off center....as in, the side of the stud is almost off the piece of leather it's on. THEN I noticed (yes, there's more)...the center 2 studs are OFF CENTER! as in, they're much closer to the left top studs than the right ones.
So..........after all that, I'm thinking, wait I paid $1740 - almost 2k - for a bag with this many flaws????? what the heck??
my SO says, i think this is how they are because no hand-made bag can be perfect. He thinks I should just accept it and try to be happy or just forget about the whole thing. Do any of you experience these kinds of quality issues with your bbags?? Am i just unlucky? is it ONLY cafe GGH PTs? i have no idea, but i know it's pretty ridiculous to pay so much money to have to settle for a bag that's so flawed.....yet I don't know if it's worth it to exchange again and get another one shipped to me if every bag is guaranteed to have a bunch of quality issues. This is my first bbag, so please........enlighten me as to what's going on! what should i do! i'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo in love with this bag, i would be extremely 
if i had to give it up...
So..........after all that, I'm thinking, wait I paid $1740 - almost 2k - for a bag with this many flaws????? what the heck??
my SO says, i think this is how they are because no hand-made bag can be perfect. He thinks I should just accept it and try to be happy or just forget about the whole thing. Do any of you experience these kinds of quality issues with your bbags?? Am i just unlucky? is it ONLY cafe GGH PTs? i have no idea, but i know it's pretty ridiculous to pay so much money to have to settle for a bag that's so flawed.....yet I don't know if it's worth it to exchange again and get another one shipped to me if every bag is guaranteed to have a bunch of quality issues. This is my first bbag, so please........enlighten me as to what's going on! what should i do! i'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo in love with this bag, i would be extremely if i had to give it up...
These bags are way too expensive for flaws like this, I have cheaper bags like MJ, LV, 
