how much does hot stamping affect resale value?

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The other day I saw someone was selling heritage Neverfull set with pouch like brand new and of course made in France too, for $600 ish, I had to try very hard not buying it because it was hot stamped, in the past I would bought it right away but now the market just too depressed. Of course someone else bought it, there is always someone else think the deal was great.
 
My experiences is that heat stamped items are sold for much less than not heat stamped ones. Recently I saw at Global Elady two identical Carryall travel bags: the not heat stamped one cost 1,300 USD, the heat stamped one 700 USD.
When I started collecting Louis Vuitton items, I had all of my small leather goods personalized with a blind (not colored) single letter (the initial of my first name), that way resell value was higher than with a colored two or three letter heatstamp. Nowadays I don't personalize anything, as I tend the resell a lot on Vestiaire Collective.
 
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