NYC Fall 2013 Sale
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I agree with everyone here, but especially with LG (about her comments in the 2nd paragraph). I'm new to Hermes and I must say, I'm sooo surprised Hermes even have sales!! I know LV does not and they even said they rather burn their bags than put them on sale. So if Hermes is supposed to be more coveted than LV then why have sales? After hearing the sales goodies the ladies and gents here scored at the BH sale, I personally changed my mind about buying a medor clutch now. just my 2 cents
^ This!
While it is fun to hear about the sales, I would prefer for Hermes to never have sales. LV is smart in that sense. We pay a hefty premium for Hermes items and I hate to see s stamp items dilute the market.
Where are the recent crop of s stamp scarves and shawls coming from? I searched high and low to add another Couvertures and Kimonos GMs to my collection, only to be told they were sold out everywhere, yet S stamp versions have popped up on eBay.
If I can give thumbs-up for this a thousand times, I would. It made my blood boil knowing many of my grail scarves went to the Paris sale, got the ugly S stamp on them that sometimes bleeds through, and got pulls/snags because of the way people handle them at the sales. Hadn't they gone to the sale, they would have been available for charge-send, think Lumieres de Paris, Zabavushka, Fleurs d'Indiennes, Paperoles, Jardins d'Armenie
. Most silks right now mostly sell like hot cakes, or become Petit-H if belong to older collections, or get buried under the dark drawers waiting for charge-send chances, or "mysteriously disappear" without box...
And the ELeKs and other Fall '12 scarves on eBay with S stamp, I don't think they are not from the Paris public sale, and I can't wait until H corporate investigates what's going on in Canada stores
.I think we won't get more of such great sale like the 2010 unless the economy hits another recession.
However, I do think some RTWs belong to the sale, actually, I can see that coming right when they hit the boutiques at that retail prices...
Regarding the S stamps, I was totally amazed that there were no S stamps to be found on the necktie or the silk pochette I purchased. I looked over the shoes pretty carefully knowing the Hermes penchant for heat stamping an ugly S on the leather items. I didn't find anything, not even on the straps.
I agree that the sale, in particular the way the merchandise is just thrown out there, is demeaning. It makes one thing that they don't think that much of their product that they just throw it out there in bins as at a rummage sale. Come to think of it, I ran rummage sales one year for a charity, and we never presented things like that!
I agree that the sale, in particular the way the merchandise is just thrown out there, is demeaning. It makes one thing that they don't think that much of their product that they just throw it out there in bins as at a rummage sale. Come to think of it, I ran rummage sales one year for a charity, and we never presented things like that!
I was looking at clothing that actually had two S stamps, presumably things that have been at so many sales they thought they should stamp them again? I was looking at identical pieces of clothing and trying to determine which had a kinder S stamp and one that wasn't smeared or worse. In the end I thought twice about spending so much money on something just to say I bought something at the sale. We're still talking thousands of dollars for a single item that's been at who knows how many of these sales.
I can't imagine what they're going to do with these items that are so many years old.
I can't imagine what they're going to do with these items that are so many years old.
Oh no, not, Post-Traumatic Sale Disorder???!!!
Thanks for mentioning this. I was at the most recent BH sale and was so dismayed by the condition of some of the items offered for sale. Not the bags, scarves, or ties, but the housewares, small leather goods, decorative objects, and in the pocket items. So many of the decorative objects and in the pocket items were marred to the point of it being disappointing that H would consider them acceptable even at 50% off retail. But for me the worst thing was the small leather goods. I saw a beautiful peluse (my all-time favorite H color) mens wallet with a magnetic clasp. When I removed it from the Ziploc bag (and really, what says H more than pulling the item out of a Ziploc bag!
) not only did it have the "S" stamp, but it also had an "S" written with what appeared to have been a Sharpie. The stamp wouldn't bother me at all, but if every time I opened the wallet I had to look at the Sharpie'd "S" I'd just be depressed so I couldn't buy it.The bags at the BH store, however.... While driving there I was just praying to myself "Let there be a dark green Steve!" There was. But it was a Travel Steve. After holding it for 5 minutes, because I knew the minute I put it down someone else would snatch it, I realized I would NEVER use it and had to give it up. Next time I know to pray more specifically: "please let there be a Steve messenger bag in dark green!"
But back to the topic of NYC sales: fear not, NYC'ers. Eventually the correct order of the universe will be restored and attendees of every other H sale in the US will wish we could go to the NYC sale, as that's where all the good stuff is!
(You guys even got SL paperweights at 50% off in 2010 - and the Racked columnist sniffed at them....)Thanks for mentioning this. I was at the most recent BH sale and was so dismayed by the condition of some of the items offered for sale. Not the bags, scarves, or ties, but the housewares, small leather goods, decorative objects, and in the pocket items. So many of the decorative objects and in the pocket items were marred to the point of it being disappointing that H would consider them acceptable even at 50% off retail. But for me the worst thing was the small leather goods. I saw a beautiful peluse (my all-time favorite H color) mens wallet with a magnetic clasp. When I removed it from the Ziploc bag (and really, what says H more than pulling the item out of a Ziploc bag!
The bags at the BH store, however.... While driving there I was just praying to myself "Let there be a dark green Steve!" There was. But it was a Travel Steve. After holding it for 5 minutes, because I knew the minute I put it down someone else would snatch it, I realized I would NEVER use it and had to give it up. Next time I know to pray more specifically: "please let there be a Steve messenger bag in dark green!"
But back to the topic of NYC sales: fear not, NYC'ers. Eventually the correct order of the universe will be restored and attendees of every other H sale in the US will wish we could go to the NYC sale, as that's where all the good stuff is!
Not terribly surprised to hear about the S markings..very careless of H
