First of all, I want to say that I have nothing against "capitalism". I myself am a benefactor of this ideology. I also have nothing against people exercising their "commercial mind" and trying to earn a living using creative means.
Second of all, this is not a post against people who trade off bags they no longer want and wish to cash in.
HOWEVER, to those resellers who lurk around here and use the information posted by all the kind girls here so that they could then resell at ridiculous prices and consequently causing (i) some of the boutiques to stop selling to genuine end-users by phone (ii) genuine end-users not being able to find bags from department stores and boutiques and having to pay $$$$ above retail if they really want to have the bags, I despise you and if I see you in person, I would not hesitate to punch you in the face (even though I am only a midget).
Where does this angst come from? We found out this week that one of the favourite SAs we know in Europe who has provided so much help to myself and a couple of other girls here can no longer do phone sale or indeed international sale. The prime reason being there are resellers buying bags from her boutique and selling them at consignment stores. And the volume of sales is to such an extent that the boutique has to stop international sale in August because the manager is worried that there would be no stock left in the boutique for walk in customer during the holiday season and also the manager does not want to see the store contributing to the black market. Now, the boutique decides to stop international sale altogether, no exception.
I am really pissed off with this. The SA knows I and the other girl are not resellers (the SAs can tell from the items we buy) but no exception can be made. I have a lot of sympathy for the SA and the boutique. But this also means that I can no longer and will be extremely unwilling to help any of the other girls here to get the bags they want by sharing our SA info for fear that they are in fact resellers. A lot of these SAs, I have actually met them in person and I have been ordering from them for quite some time. One reseller sale will kill off the whole thing. And would I now want to jeopardise this?
I like our shopping thread a lot - we are trying to help each other out by sharing the good deals we see. But you cannot imagine how shocked I am to see so many of these great deals snatched up by resellers and appearing in ebay the next day. I am really really sick and tired of this and I just feel that the people who "suffer" in the end are those who truly like Chanel.
End of rant.
Second of all, this is not a post against people who trade off bags they no longer want and wish to cash in.
HOWEVER, to those resellers who lurk around here and use the information posted by all the kind girls here so that they could then resell at ridiculous prices and consequently causing (i) some of the boutiques to stop selling to genuine end-users by phone (ii) genuine end-users not being able to find bags from department stores and boutiques and having to pay $$$$ above retail if they really want to have the bags, I despise you and if I see you in person, I would not hesitate to punch you in the face (even though I am only a midget).
Where does this angst come from? We found out this week that one of the favourite SAs we know in Europe who has provided so much help to myself and a couple of other girls here can no longer do phone sale or indeed international sale. The prime reason being there are resellers buying bags from her boutique and selling them at consignment stores. And the volume of sales is to such an extent that the boutique has to stop international sale in August because the manager is worried that there would be no stock left in the boutique for walk in customer during the holiday season and also the manager does not want to see the store contributing to the black market. Now, the boutique decides to stop international sale altogether, no exception.
I am really pissed off with this. The SA knows I and the other girl are not resellers (the SAs can tell from the items we buy) but no exception can be made. I have a lot of sympathy for the SA and the boutique. But this also means that I can no longer and will be extremely unwilling to help any of the other girls here to get the bags they want by sharing our SA info for fear that they are in fact resellers. A lot of these SAs, I have actually met them in person and I have been ordering from them for quite some time. One reseller sale will kill off the whole thing. And would I now want to jeopardise this?
I like our shopping thread a lot - we are trying to help each other out by sharing the good deals we see. But you cannot imagine how shocked I am to see so many of these great deals snatched up by resellers and appearing in ebay the next day. I am really really sick and tired of this and I just feel that the people who "suffer" in the end are those who truly like Chanel.
End of rant.
Sigh...totally agree with ya ..
