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weN84 said:
I just want to :tup::tup: to @MrsOwen3 and @Pocketbook Pup for your patience in the Paris thread. Can't tell you how many times I hit the Report post when unrelated tangent/topic to the original topic is posted or how I just :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::no: seeing the same repetitive questions. i LOVE the search button! That is all.

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I'm guilty of answering a few too many of the repetitive questions myself. But honestly I think that thread is incredibly valuable. I tried once before reading it and had no luck, then I read it and was prepared and I had success. You can lead a horse to water....
 
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weN84 said:
I just want to :tup::tup: to @MrsOwen3 and @Pocketbook Pup for your patience in the Paris thread. Can't tell you how many times I hit the Report post when unrelated tangent/topic to the original topic is posted or how I just :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::no: seeing the same repetitive questions. i LOVE the search button! That is all.

*Quietly tip-toes back into lurking mode*
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I just think it's amazing how people don't take a moment to read and absorb the culture of the forum, I don't think it's hostile at all but it is 10 years old and full of so much information. I used to love that thread for the stories but it's too much with the same question or after a bag "score" :rolleyes: the next 5 questions, what did you buy, what nationality are you/the SA, what else did you ask for. It's like if you get a bag you need to write a dissertation about the experience just to head off the question. I wish the mods would do a real FAQ (not like my joke one) and point them to it like they do on Authenticity-not that it helps much but at least there's a place they can look.
 
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Madam Bijoux said:
Today at Dressage at Devon: It rained most of the day, but it dared not rain on the Fresian judging.
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A friend of mine who is a devoted rider has a Fresian. I am blanking on the name of the HS but about 20 years ago (and maybe more recently, H issued a scarf with a design of (what looked to me) like draft horses (but very good looking!) around a center circle. I told friend I imagined her horse looked like those on the scarf. Does the breed come from around the Netherlands or France? She rides her horse in the Shenandoah Mountains in Virginia. She likes to train her horse for endurance contests.
 
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ITA, MrsO, and find the repetitious questions about how to "score" to be annoying and rather lazy, or at least entitled (I am so special that I can't be bothered to do any RESEARCH!). A side note: I think some of the issues people encounter at FSH are cultural. French "customer service" is NOT the same as Asian customer service. I have read descriptions of shopping in--I think it was Tokyo H?--where, when the doors open, the sales staff lines up and bows as the customers file in. In French culture, the concept of salespeople being obsequious is NOT embraced. Rather, shop owners/salespeople are the experts, hold the keys to the kingdom, and expect to be treated as such. Neither style is inherently better, but it is certainly jarring to be confronted with the opposite of what one is used to. I've read tales of shoppers in Paris being lectured quite irritably by SAs about their choices: "You DON'T want to buy that! That's foolish! You want to buy THIS!" Everyone traveling to any other country should do some basic cultural research. It is both common sense and common courtesy.
 
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Mindi B said:
ITA, MrsO, and find the repetitious questions about how to "score" to be annoying and rather lazy, or at least entitled (I am so special that I can't be bothered to do any RESEARCH!). A side note: I think some of the issues people encounter at FSH are cultural. French "customer service" is NOT the same as Asian customer service. I have read descriptions of shopping in--I think it was Tokyo H?--where, when the doors open, the sales staff lines up and bows as the customers file in. In French culture, the concept of salespeople being obsequious is NOT embraced. Rather, shop owners/salespeople are the experts, hold the keys to the kingdom, and expect to be treated as such. Neither style is inherently better, but it is certainly jarring to be confronted with the opposite of what one is used to. I've read tales of shoppers in Paris being lectured quite irritably by SAs about their choices: "You DON'T want to buy that! That's foolish! You want to buy THIS!" Everyone traveling to any other country should do some basic cultural research. It is both common sense and common courtesy.
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I agree completely with this. I think much of what is interpreted as rudeness is simply French cultural differences. With an ounce of entitlement thrown in.
 
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Mindi B said:
ITA, MrsO, and find the repetitious questions about how to "score" to be annoying and rather lazy, or at least entitled (I am so special that I can't be bothered to do any RESEARCH!). A side note: I think some of the issues people encounter at FSH are cultural. French "customer service" is NOT the same as Asian customer service. I have read descriptions of shopping in--I think it was Tokyo H?--where, when the doors open, the sales staff lines up and bows as the customers file in. In French culture, the concept of salespeople being obsequious is NOT embraced. Rather, shop owners/salespeople are the experts, hold the keys to the kingdom, and expect to be treated as such. Neither style is inherently better, but it is certainly jarring to be confronted with the opposite of what one is used to. I've read tales of shoppers in Paris being lectured quite irritably by SAs about their choices: "You DON'T want to buy that! That's foolish! You want to buy THIS!" Everyone traveling to any other country should do some basic cultural research. It is both common sense and common courtesy.
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Pocketbook Pup said:
I agree completely with this. I think much of what is interpreted as rudeness is simply French cultural differences. With an ounce of entitlement thrown in.
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I agree and perhaps that thread itself is part of the problem, it's likely just .001% of the people going through the line are posting here so when there's a lot of success it causes a frenzy. All I know is that when I booked my Paris trip, I read the whole thread and loved it!

my Common Questions/Vague Answers post was deleted too. And I thought it was funny but I guess I was part of the problem...
 
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Mindi B said:
ITA, MrsO, and find the repetitious questions about how to "score" to be annoying and rather lazy, or at least entitled (I am so special that I can't be bothered to do any RESEARCH!). A side note: I think some of the issues people encounter at FSH are cultural. French "customer service" is NOT the same as Asian customer service. I have read descriptions of shopping in--I think it was Tokyo H?--where, when the doors open, the sales staff lines up and bows as the customers file in. In French culture, the concept of salespeople being obsequious is NOT embraced. Rather, shop owners/salespeople are the experts, hold the keys to the kingdom, and expect to be treated as such. Neither style is inherently better, but it is certainly jarring to be confronted with the opposite of what one is used to. I've read tales of shoppers in Paris being lectured quite irritably by SAs about their choices: "You DON'T want to buy that! That's foolish! You want to buy THIS!" Everyone traveling to any other country should do some basic cultural research. It is both common sense and common courtesy.
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Agree!

Pocketbook Pup said:
I agree completely with this. I think much of what is interpreted as rudeness is simply French cultural differences. With an ounce of entitlement thrown in.
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And Agree !!

From my interactions with different cultures
 
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