Paris trip for Hermes

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Please try to stay on topic. I realise because of the complexity of some of the posts members may veer off but in answer do not 'go there'.

For info and questions on US customs please post on the thread below: post https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/us-customs-discussion-airports-importing.905560/

Detaxing (to US from Europe) https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/best-way-to-detax-after-h-in-europe.178302/

or non-US destinations: https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/does-h-store-paris-wants-to-ship.605014/page-3

For questions relating to prices https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/reference-hermes-current-prices.102567/page-357

For traveling with boxes https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...me-hermes-boxes-when-traveling.1044553/page-5



I will leave this reminder as a sticky because tthis is often a thread that new members (or new Hermès lovers) post on - hopefully temporarily.
 
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Hermesine said:
I´ve been to Paris in the last few days and my husband and I separately tried to make an appointment, at the "lottery" but got none - we both have an extensive and long time buying history at FSH (Bags/Bs, decoration, tons of CSGMs, CDCs, shoes, but never fine jewellery) and bought some smaller items at Sevres in the past. In the afternoon I asked spontaneously for an appointment and got one in the next ten minutes... I didn´t know the SA (Young, male, polished, arrogant from tip to toe...) and knew instantly that this would be a miss followed indeed by the worst service Hermès ever provided... honestly I had to laugh ("no Birkin today...") at this experience. Then I went to Sevres where in that moment a 35 was sold (private room) and my SA tried her best but I was quite specific concerning my bag wishes. So we again left empty handed - but I was suprised that obviously you really can get a B/K there. Afterwards we went to George V and chatted with a nice SA (about how busy the city was) in the overly crowded store - then before we bought anything I asked for a B and got my dream B: B30, black, Epsom GHW :smile:) I was speechless but happy. So sometimes in Paris your dreams come true.
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Hermesine said:
I´ve been to Paris in the last few days and my husband and I separately tried to make an appointment, at the "lottery" but got none - we both have an extensive and long time buying history at FSH (Bags/Bs, decoration, tons of CSGMs, CDCs, shoes, but never fine jewellery) and bought some smaller items at Sevres in the past. In the afternoon I asked spontaneously for an appointment and got one in the next ten minutes... I didn´t know the SA (Young, male, polished, arrogant from tip to toe...) and knew instantly that this would be a miss followed indeed by the worst service Hermès ever provided... honestly I had to laugh ("no Birkin today...") at this experience. Then I went to Sevres where in that moment a 35 was sold (private room) and my SA tried her best but I was quite specific concerning my bag wishes. So we again left empty handed - but I was suprised that obviously you really can get a B/K there. Afterwards we went to George V and chatted with a nice SA (about how busy the city was) in the overly crowded store - then before we bought anything I asked for a B and got my dream B: B30, black, Epsom GHW :-)) I was speechless but happy. So sometimes in Paris your dreams come true.
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Congrats [emoji173]️ i’m not sure if it is because of the new space but the stock in George v is amazing. My dad was offered a kelly 28, roulis, picotin and a herbag as a walk in, he ended up buying me the picotin. My friend has also been offered a B30 barenia gold Ghw ! As a walk in, so there should be a good stock for xmas this years.
 
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aishaaa89 said:
Congrats [emoji173]️ i’m not sure if it is because of the new space but the stock in George v is amazing. My dad was offered a kelly 28, roulis, picotin and a herbag as a walk in, he ended up buying me the picotin. My friend has also been offered a B30 barenia gold Ghw ! As a walk in, so there should be a good stock for xmas this years.
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how did you pass up the K28!! lol

thanks for sharing this info!
 
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aishaaa89 said:
Congrats [emoji173]️ i’m not sure if it is because of the new space but the stock in George v is amazing. My dad was offered a kelly 28, roulis, picotin and a herbag as a walk in, he ended up buying me the picotin. My friend has also been offered a B30 barenia gold Ghw ! As a walk in, so there should be a good stock for xmas this years.
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Oh wow! I'd love love love a barenia B30!!
 
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Hi Guys, I just wanted to share my experience at FSH yesterday as I learnt so much from this thread. For fun I thought let’s try the new appointment system, I live around 3 hours away by train. On my 2nd try I got an appointment at 12.30pm. Bought my train ticket and off I went, arrived at FSH an hour before my appointment and went to let the hostess know that I’m here but will browse around. It was busy but not crazy, lots of wallets on display and even B/K/Cs for display only. I picked out a Bearn wallet in rose poupre and had it put aside. I didn’t see many orange boxes around so I thought maybe it’s not my lucky day and was thinking I’ll go to Chanel etc after to pick out something so it’s not a wasted trip. Half an hour later I got a text to say that an SA is ready to see me. When I saw her I immediately had a good feeling, she was smiley and friendly. We went upstairs to a quiet corner and she asked me what I am looking for. I said K25/28 in Black/Grey or neutral colours, a wallet and scarves. Then she surprised me by asking if I prefer K 25 or 28, sellier or retourne and GHW or PHW. It made me think they must have a lot of stock! She went off to look for my items, the longer she was away the better according to what I’ve read here so I timed her and she was away for 22 mins before she came back with 1 large box and 2 smaller boxes. In that time I saw many people being shown into the fitting rooms to look at Bags. We had to wait because there was no private room available! She showed me the wallet first and I said I love this colour. Then the other small box was a silk bag insert which I said I’ll take as well. I saw the label on the big box which says Birkin 25 Blue Nuit. My SA said unfortunately we don’t have any Ks right now but I hope you don’t hate Birkins! [emoji23][emoji23] I said Of course not!! We went into a private room and she showed me the bag and it’s very cute and a very nice sensible colour however it didn’t make my heart sing. I think she could see it in my face as she said actually we have B25 in Rose Poupre too but you didn’t ask for bright colour, would you like to see it?! I immediately said yes please and off she went to check and came back with the bag. So that’s how I ended up with B25 Rose P! I thanked her, We chose a twilly, I paid and left!

We chatted for a bit in between and I know that she looked up my purchase history as she asked me why I had 2 addresses. I said I used to live in London but moved after I got married. She also mentioned that she could see that I have bought a few things Online. I think having purchase history helped me and I felt like she genuinely wanted to give me a bag.
Also I have to say this new appointment system is amazing, very efficient. Good luck to everyone going to Paris!! IMG_1512545146.832565.jpg
 
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Natalie j said:
Hi Guys, I just wanted to share my experience at FSH yesterday as I learnt so much from this thread. For fun I thought let’s try the new appointment system, I live around 3 hours away by train. On my 2nd try I got an appointment at 12.30pm. Bought my train ticket and off I went, arrived at FSH an hour before my appointment and went to let the hostess know that I’m here but will browse around. It was busy but not crazy, lots of wallets on display and even B/K/Cs for display only. I picked out a Bearn wallet in rose poupre and had it put aside. I didn’t see many orange boxes around so I thought maybe it’s not my lucky day and was thinking I’ll go to Chanel etc after to pick out something so it’s not a wasted trip. Half an hour later I got a text to say that an SA is ready to see me. When I saw her I immediately had a good feeling, she was smiley and friendly. We went upstairs to a quiet corner and she asked me what I am looking for. I said K25/28 in Black/Grey or neutral colours, a wallet and scarves. Then she surprised me by asking if I prefer K 25 or 28, sellier or retourne and GHW or PHW. It made me think they must have a lot of stock! She went off to look for my items, the longer she was away the better according to what I’ve read here so I timed her and she was away for 22 mins before she came back with 1 large box and 2 smaller boxes. In that time I saw many people being shown into the fitting rooms to look at Bags. We had to wait because there was no private room available! She showed me the wallet first and I said I love this colour. Then the other small box was a silk bag insert which I said I’ll take as well. I saw the label on the big box which says Birkin 25 Blue Nuit. My SA said unfortunately we don’t have any Ks right now but I hope you don’t hate Birkins! [emoji23][emoji23] I said Of course not!! We went into a private room and she showed me the bag and it’s very cute and a very nice sensible colour however it didn’t make my heart sing. I think she could see it in my face as she said actually we have B25 in Rose Poupre too but you didn’t ask for bright colour, would you like to see it?! I immediately said yes please and off she went to check and came back with the bag. So that’s how I ended up with B25 Rose P! I thanked her, We chose a twilly, I paid and left!

We chatted for a bit in between and I know that she looked up my purchase history as she asked me why I had 2 addresses. I said I used to live in London but moved after I got married. She also mentioned that she could see that I have bought a few things Online. I think having purchase history helped me and I felt like she genuinely wanted to give me a bag.
Also I have to say this new appointment system is amazing, very efficient. Good luck to everyone going to Paris!! View attachment 3899872
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I knew this was gonna be your FSH score!!! So excited and happy for you! You can add jelly too cuz I love RP!
 
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Natalie j said:
Hi Guys, I just wanted to share my experience at FSH yesterday as I learnt so much from this thread. For fun I thought let’s try the new appointment system, I live around 3 hours away by train. On my 2nd try I got an appointment at 12.30pm. Bought my train ticket and off I went, arrived at FSH an hour before my appointment and went to let the hostess know that I’m here but will browse around. It was busy but not crazy, lots of wallets on display and even B/K/Cs for display only. I picked out a Bearn wallet in rose poupre and had it put aside. I didn’t see many orange boxes around so I thought maybe it’s not my lucky day and was thinking I’ll go to Chanel etc after to pick out something so it’s not a wasted trip. Half an hour later I got a text to say that an SA is ready to see me. When I saw her I immediately had a good feeling, she was smiley and friendly. We went upstairs to a quiet corner and she asked me what I am looking for. I said K25/28 in Black/Grey or neutral colours, a wallet and scarves. Then she surprised me by asking if I prefer K 25 or 28, sellier or retourne and GHW or PHW. It made me think they must have a lot of stock! She went off to look for my items, the longer she was away the better according to what I’ve read here so I timed her and she was away for 22 mins before she came back with 1 large box and 2 smaller boxes. In that time I saw many people being shown into the fitting rooms to look at Bags. We had to wait because there was no private room available! She showed me the wallet first and I said I love this colour. Then the other small box was a silk bag insert which I said I’ll take as well. I saw the label on the big box which says Birkin 25 Blue Nuit. My SA said unfortunately we don’t have any Ks right now but I hope you don’t hate Birkins! [emoji23][emoji23] I said Of course not!! We went into a private room and she showed me the bag and it’s very cute and a very nice sensible colour however it didn’t make my heart sing. I think she could see it in my face as she said actually we have B25 in Rose Poupre too but you didn’t ask for bright colour, would you like to see it?! I immediately said yes please and off she went to check and came back with the bag. So that’s how I ended up with B25 Rose P! I thanked her, We chose a twilly, I paid and left!

We chatted for a bit in between and I know that she looked up my purchase history as she asked me why I had 2 addresses. I said I used to live in London but moved after I got married. She also mentioned that she could see that I have bought a few things Online. I think having purchase history helped me and I felt like she genuinely wanted to give me a bag.
Also I have to say this new appointment system is amazing, very efficient. Good luck to everyone going to Paris!! View attachment 3899872
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Congrats! This colour is so beautiful!!
 
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