100%.I think it’s a mental health and maturity thing. Covid has made things worse with how people behave. I also think those who get caught up in the game are younger. I see so many twenty somethings on sm after these bags and it blows my mind. Of course I’m sure there are some young financially responsible people.
Emotionally mature people don’t fall victim to games. They don’t buy only what the sa tells them to buy. They don’t waste money. They don’t start questioning if they did something wrong if their sa doesn’t respond the same day or next day or even week. They don’t attempt to make an appointment hundreds of times in Paris. When I saw some mention that I kind of found it shocking.
Being so focused on obtaining a bag is not healthy and I’ve seen so many people be so disappointed that they didn’t get one or spent so much and still haven’t been offered one or took home a bag they didn’t like. Who’s the client here? Who’s spending the money? Ultimately most everyone gets bags but after that then what and so what? These people who have these strong fixations may continue to shop as they do and I see it over and over in these fb reseller groups. Those people who buy the high end jewelry and sell it for peanuts or sell twenty pairs of chypre sandals. After three years of doing that aren’t they tired? It’s like an addiction and I supposed if they weren’t addicted to H they’d have some other kind of addiction.
These bags used to be what you’d buy for milestones like 25th anniversary, fortieth birthday, work milestone, but now it’s like let’s celebrate anything as a reason to get a bag and heck who needs a reason. Maybe it’s good that the bk have come off the pedestal.
I just looked at when the influencers thread was started - late 21. I don’t follow influencers so I’m just guessing here, but assuming the influencer H game already had a head of steam then, I guess we are about three years into the hottest part of the trend. There will be others who know much more about how these things work than me, but it does seem like now the “hot“ conditions of the past few years that facilitated the mania might be cooling, we’ll see the desperate churn cycle that sustains most influencers start to slow at some point in the not-too-distant future.