Well between reading this thread and admiring photos, attending a legal conference in NYC last year and drooling over a fellow panelist's Birkin and watching Inside Man and being mesmerized by Jodie Fosters Birkin...I have taken the plunge. Thanks to recommendation of the bag and seller SandiaExchange on the Hermes authentic finds on eBay thread, right before Christmas this Chanel and Tom Ford Gucci addict received her first Hermes bag. I love it and it has become one of my favorite and most carried bags. I think I'd like a JPG next.