convenience charge I suppose..
Influencers and Hermes
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I haven't checked, how much is Bonbon charging for the subscription?
I wouldn't minimize bonbon's work. They curate and search different sites within the hour in spite of the problematic Hermes' sites and catalogue new items, different colourways, sizes more than one can do on the regular. One cannot go ahead to do the reverse search if the work has not been done before to actually provide the pictures. Also, this is their first time being a monetized "influencer". This has been done for years for free considering how pesky people can be on the internet.
We can agree to disagree. I see nothing tasteful in charging other Hermes fans for information that is free. Her images are all taken from different Hermes sites around the world. You can literally search every single piece.
Quite reasonable if one truly needs this service, $2.99/mth. I wish her luck. It does require a lot of work.
I didn’t know her page, and I must admit it is very useful as for RTW it is very complicated to have an idea of the collection…
I can see your point too. It does feel a bit, distasteful sounds too harsh, but kind of leaves a slightly money grabbing vibe I suppose. But I guess we need to grab that money to fuel that addiction....
Is that why they no longer post price info on the regular posts? I found it very helpful to know the approximate price before asking my SA since most of the new releases do not show up on the US website first.
I always assumed that these influencers were preying mostly on the aspirational buyers. The people who constantly post that they are scared to go into a store or scared to ask an SA a question. Those people will pay influencers because they can’t do the irl relationship to get what they need.
I have harsh opinions about the whole thing.
Just along the lines of - if you need internet support to speak to a human in a store…
I get the fact that I’m old so I grew up speaking to people and gen z is growing up not needing to speak to anyone. But maybe Hermes shopping isn’t for you if you cannot interact in person 🫣🤷♀️
I do wonder if the very minimally priced subscription is implemented more to decrease the number of DMs that cannnot possibly all be answered in order to focus on assisting people who are really serious and reasonable. If someone would pay $2.99, I’m sure they would pay $5.99 or $9.99, but it seems the very minimal amount may have been chosen more to filter out some difficult and demanding inquiries from any person online vs due to a motivation to make money on it. Or perhaps they did calculate how many hours were spent per day and needed to justify continuing to provide the service.
What does the bonbon do? Asking seriously. I am influencer unaware.
Apparently they search for specific items on internet all countries and post pictures with details and pricing.
I had the same question just too shy to ask LOL