this is correct.It's a legal requirement, not just a store policy
and larger cash payments have to be logged with clients ID and details to ensure they do'nt spend above the maximum amount over a six month period.
Overheard Hermès
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and larger cash payments have to be logged with clients ID and details to ensure they do'nt spend above the maximum amount over a six month period.
I think my local one does as well. The legal issue being money laundering. (If someone knows better, please feel free to correct
ETA: however, I did hear someone at Chanel arranging for a bank wire. And I believe Dior does this too. So, perhaps Hermes does as well?
I guess she was self soothing by telling her daughter that, haha. Sounds like she was still processing the rejection.
Overheard: a young couple (presumably tourists) looking around, chatting with an sa. Suddenly the husband says ‘Her birthday is coming up…’ ( incoherent mumbling, probably asking for a bag). It’s likely a valid reason, but in reality sounds really cliche, haha. Sa didn’t reply to that comment, probably heard it a 100 times before.
Overheard#2: cashier to customer holding a beautiful green kelly sellier w ghw (?vert jade), who was having her b25 croc packed up: ‘total is $74560’ in the most nonchalant voice.
Customer: i would like to split the payment with 2 credit cards. Cashier:ok
This all happened in the most normal way ever… like buying vegetables at the market
I always wondered that, if you can afford a $75k bag why would you have to split the purchase between cards?
They don’t “like” to get huge amount of cash, for both hassle of having to count and security reasons. Plus there is indeed extra paper work to fill out for over $10K cash payments. From the conversations overheard and told, managers seemed very concerned with these tax related paperwork/forms.
I’m in Paris and can’t sleep so here goes another long story.
I went to see my SA on agreed time. It was the season a variation of Kelly was released. There was a family with kids hanging out not far away. The mom of the family rushed over as soon as she saw how I was trying on this newly released bag.
She said something along the line of how nice it must be they are showing me such bag etc. She stood right there next to me and kept staring at the bag on the table… SA and I stopped chatting till she finally left us as it was a bit awkward.
Then I see the lady talking to another SA with frustrated voice. SA tried very hard to calm her down but couldn’t. Few minutes later, she came over to where I was again.
Lady: “Since she can’t help me, I wanted to see someone who can. Are you that person?”
SA: “Miss, I am with my client right now.”
Lady: “Can you help me or not?”
SA: “I am sorry but I am with my client. My colleague can assist you.”
Lady: “She said you are higher position than her. So you can help me when you are done?”
This conversation went on a bit more. We left the space soon after, which got the lady angrier. It was as if she wanted me to stay there to witness what I get.
Another SA explained to my SA (who is really senior position) how the lady came day before, bought shoes and right away asked for bags. This was many years ago, so they had plenty of styles on display and more in the back. But of course bags she wanted was a B/K.
I think it was her first visit and the family was on a vacation. I heard she was upset of no BK shown and demanded to see them.
“How can you tell me this type of store does not have any bags?” was her argument and would not leave, even though her very young kids looked so bored out their minds.
Eventually the SM was informed of the matter and went to speak to her.
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Think of all those credit card points she’s missing out on !!! Lolololol
(Being tongue in cheek for our more serious friends here)
Perhaps she wanted collect both Loyalty Points and SkyMiles.
That was actually second thing that crossed my mind after wondering about how she carried all those bills. LOL.
To hide the real amount from the husband, of course!
I do this sometimes for variety of reasons like those mentioned above - first card have spending already so available limit not enough anymore, to maximize points/mileage/rewards, to spread payment due dates, and of course to hide some amount from husband
The croc birkin was 75k or did she have a bunch of other things?!
I only saw the croc b, she might have had other items
What currency was this? I could make sense if you're in a country like Canada, where I think the croc B25 is around $65-70K now with the new price increases.
SA: I’m sorry, but we do not match bag sizes to IQ’s.