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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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And Next day, I received my appointment at 4:15pm so we were looking about shop near there but it has been delayed to like after 5pm. I We arrived shop abound 4oclock and bought 1 belt for myself,husband and 1 pair of oran sandals. And I received sms that my appointment is ready and it was like nearly 5pm. I had to stop what I was looking and told them I’ll come back to get them after bag appointment. So that means I only have purchase history of buying 1 pair of shoes from like more than 3yrs ago. My SA also very straight forward. We just said hi and she asked me which bags im looking for. My husband told her this time that this is out 5th wedding anniversary so he wanted to get birkin25 for me to make our trip special. And she asked which color im looking for.I told her I only want etoupe, or neutral and gold color in only gold hardware. She asked me whether im interested in blue or red color and I remeber I said no to blue but I couldnt I said no to red. And 2nd choice will be constance18 but I prefer to get birkin rather than constance. She diappeard about 5mins and asked us to follow her. We went upstairs and my SA said, all the colors you are looking for is very hard to get because everyone wants it and they are not available. But she got something to show me and opened box. It was chocolate color with palladium hardware.I didn’t really like the color at all so I asked her again if any othher color such as red or even blue’s are available for me. Then she went like “u told me you don’t want red”. But I really couldnt remember I said that. Aniwai, she was looking at staff(?) iphone and told me which colors are available ans asked me to choose one. She also mentioned that she can’t bring two bags, only can bring one and show me. She gave me a choice of blue zellige and geranium. I wasnt familiar of these colors so I looked at my phone quickly to research colors. I didnt want make her to wait for long so I decided to get geranium. She went for quick few minutes and opened the box and said “Its capucine color”. I still wasnt sure about this color because never thought about pop color bags. All my bags are either black/navy. Aniway, I couldnt ask her for more because she said there is none so I was happily to take her at the end. She also brought silk fourbi but I told her that I have fourbi20 already. And than after we took 2 belts that I reserved before. I didnt have any big purchase history and our both appointment times were between 4-5pm but we still managed to get a bag. They are not the exact colors I wanted, but I think Im very lucky to get two bags at the end. And suprise thing is, I really like capucine birkin now! Color looks differently depends on light, indoor and outdoor. I already carried twice since I got it last week. Of course Im in love with G Asphalt kelly as well. So this is my story. Hope everyone can have happy moments at FSH and I’ll include pictures of my bags. Thanks everyone for reading!
 

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cutebear84 said:
And Next day, I received my appointment at 4:15pm so we were looking about shop near there but it has been delayed to like after 5pm. I We arrived shop abound 4oclock and bought 1 belt for myself,husband and 1 pair of oran sandals. And I received sms that my appointment is ready and it was like nearly 5pm. I had to stop what I was looking and told them I’ll come back to get them after bag appointment. So that means I only have purchase history of buying 1 pair of shoes from like more than 3yrs ago. My SA also very straight forward. We just said hi and she asked me which bags im looking for. My husband told her this time that this is out 5th wedding anniversary so he wanted to get birkin25 for me to make our trip special. And she asked which color im looking for.I told her I only want etoupe, or neutral and gold color in only gold hardware. She asked me whether im interested in blue or red color and I remeber I said no to blue but I couldnt I said no to red. And 2nd choice will be constance18 but I prefer to get birkin rather than constance. She diappeard about 5mins and asked us to follow her. We went upstairs and my SA said, all the colors you are looking for is very hard to get because everyone wants it and they are not available. But she got something to show me and opened box. It was chocolate color with palladium hardware.I didn’t really like the color at all so I asked her again if any othher color such as red or even blue’s are available for me. Then she went like “u told me you don’t want red”. But I really couldnt remember I said that. Aniwai, she was looking at staff(?) iphone and told me which colors are available ans asked me to choose one. She also mentioned that she can’t bring two bags, only can bring one and show me. She gave me a choice of blue zellige and geranium. I wasnt familiar of these colors so I looked at my phone quickly to research colors. I didnt want make her to wait for long so I decided to get geranium. She went for quick few minutes and opened the box and said “Its capucine color”. I still wasnt sure about this color because never thought about pop color bags. All my bags are either black/navy. Aniway, I couldnt ask her for more because she said there is none so I was happily to take her at the end. She also brought silk fourbi but I told her that I have fourbi20 already. And than after we took 2 belts that I reserved before. I didnt have any big purchase history and our both appointment times were between 4-5pm but we still managed to get a bag. They are not the exact colors I wanted, but I think Im very lucky to get two bags at the end. And suprise thing is, I really like capucine birkin now! Color looks differently depends on light, indoor and outdoor. I already carried twice since I got it last week. Of course Im in love with G Asphalt kelly as well. So this is my story. Hope everyone can have happy moments at FSH and I’ll include pictures of my bags. Thanks everyone for reading!
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You're are super lucky
Seriously both times you hit the right sa
Not only you gotten bags
You were offered choices as well
Congrats
 
#26,089
cutebear84 said:
And Next day, I received my appointment at 4:15pm so we were looking about shop near there but it has been delayed to like after 5pm. I We arrived shop abound 4oclock and bought 1 belt for myself,husband and 1 pair of oran sandals. And I received sms that my appointment is ready and it was like nearly 5pm. I had to stop what I was looking and told them I’ll come back to get them after bag appointment. So that means I only have purchase history of buying 1 pair of shoes from like more than 3yrs ago. My SA also very straight forward. We just said hi and she asked me which bags im looking for. My husband told her this time that this is out 5th wedding anniversary so he wanted to get birkin25 for me to make our trip special. And she asked which color im looking for.I told her I only want etoupe, or neutral and gold color in only gold hardware. She asked me whether im interested in blue or red color and I remeber I said no to blue but I couldnt I said no to red. And 2nd choice will be constance18 but I prefer to get birkin rather than constance. She diappeard about 5mins and asked us to follow her. We went upstairs and my SA said, all the colors you are looking for is very hard to get because everyone wants it and they are not available. But she got something to show me and opened box. It was chocolate color with palladium hardware.I didn’t really like the color at all so I asked her again if any othher color such as red or even blue’s are available for me. Then she went like “u told me you don’t want red”. But I really couldnt remember I said that. Aniwai, she was looking at staff(?) iphone and told me which colors are available ans asked me to choose one. She also mentioned that she can’t bring two bags, only can bring one and show me. She gave me a choice of blue zellige and geranium. I wasnt familiar of these colors so I looked at my phone quickly to research colors. I didnt want make her to wait for long so I decided to get geranium. She went for quick few minutes and opened the box and said “Its capucine color”. I still wasnt sure about this color because never thought about pop color bags. All my bags are either black/navy. Aniway, I couldnt ask her for more because she said there is none so I was happily to take her at the end. She also brought silk fourbi but I told her that I have fourbi20 already. And than after we took 2 belts that I reserved before. I didnt have any big purchase history and our both appointment times were between 4-5pm but we still managed to get a bag. They are not the exact colors I wanted, but I think Im very lucky to get two bags at the end. And suprise thing is, I really like capucine birkin now! Color looks differently depends on light, indoor and outdoor. I already carried twice since I got it last week. Of course Im in love with G Asphalt kelly as well. So this is my story. Hope everyone can have happy moments at FSH and I’ll include pictures of my bags. Thanks everyone for reading!
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Congrats! Two gorgeous bags. Such a lucky visit to Paris for you. Enjoy!
 
#26,090
cutebear84 said:
And Next day, I received my appointment at 4:15pm so we were looking about shop near there but it has been delayed to like after 5pm. I We arrived shop abound 4oclock and bought 1 belt for myself,husband and 1 pair of oran sandals. And I received sms that my appointment is ready and it was like nearly 5pm. I had to stop what I was looking and told them I’ll come back to get them after bag appointment. So that means I only have purchase history of buying 1 pair of shoes from like more than 3yrs ago. My SA also very straight forward. We just said hi and she asked me which bags im looking for. My husband told her this time that this is out 5th wedding anniversary so he wanted to get birkin25 for me to make our trip special. And she asked which color im looking for.I told her I only want etoupe, or neutral and gold color in only gold hardware. She asked me whether im interested in blue or red color and I remeber I said no to blue but I couldnt I said no to red. And 2nd choice will be constance18 but I prefer to get birkin rather than constance. She diappeard about 5mins and asked us to follow her. We went upstairs and my SA said, all the colors you are looking for is very hard to get because everyone wants it and they are not available. But she got something to show me and opened box. It was chocolate color with palladium hardware.I didn’t really like the color at all so I asked her again if any othher color such as red or even blue’s are available for me. Then she went like “u told me you don’t want red”. But I really couldnt remember I said that. Aniwai, she was looking at staff(?) iphone and told me which colors are available ans asked me to choose one. She also mentioned that she can’t bring two bags, only can bring one and show me. She gave me a choice of blue zellige and geranium. I wasnt familiar of these colors so I looked at my phone quickly to research colors. I didnt want make her to wait for long so I decided to get geranium. She went for quick few minutes and opened the box and said “Its capucine color”. I still wasnt sure about this color because never thought about pop color bags. All my bags are either black/navy. Aniway, I couldnt ask her for more because she said there is none so I was happily to take her at the end. She also brought silk fourbi but I told her that I have fourbi20 already. And than after we took 2 belts that I reserved before. I didnt have any big purchase history and our both appointment times were between 4-5pm but we still managed to get a bag. They are not the exact colors I wanted, but I think Im very lucky to get two bags at the end. And suprise thing is, I really like capucine birkin now! Color looks differently depends on light, indoor and outdoor. I already carried twice since I got it last week. Of course Im in love with G Asphalt kelly as well. So this is my story. Hope everyone can have happy moments at FSH and I’ll include pictures of my bags. Thanks everyone for reading!
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Congratulations! Beautiful neutral and pop of color for your collection!!
 
#26,092
cutebear84 said:
And Next day, I received my appointment at 4:15pm so we were looking about shop near there but it has been delayed to like after 5pm. I We arrived shop abound 4oclock and bought 1 belt for myself,husband and 1 pair of oran sandals. And I received sms that my appointment is ready and it was like nearly 5pm. I had to stop what I was looking and told them I’ll come back to get them after bag appointment. So that means I only have purchase history of buying 1 pair of shoes from like more than 3yrs ago. My SA also very straight forward. We just said hi and she asked me which bags im looking for. My husband told her this time that this is out 5th wedding anniversary so he wanted to get birkin25 for me to make our trip special. And she asked which color im looking for.I told her I only want etoupe, or neutral and gold color in only gold hardware. She asked me whether im interested in blue or red color and I remeber I said no to blue but I couldnt I said no to red. And 2nd choice will be constance18 but I prefer to get birkin rather than constance. She diappeard about 5mins and asked us to follow her. We went upstairs and my SA said, all the colors you are looking for is very hard to get because everyone wants it and they are not available. But she got something to show me and opened box. It was chocolate color with palladium hardware.I didn’t really like the color at all so I asked her again if any othher color such as red or even blue’s are available for me. Then she went like “u told me you don’t want red”. But I really couldnt remember I said that. Aniwai, she was looking at staff(?) iphone and told me which colors are available ans asked me to choose one. She also mentioned that she can’t bring two bags, only can bring one and show me. She gave me a choice of blue zellige and geranium. I wasnt familiar of these colors so I looked at my phone quickly to research colors. I didnt want make her to wait for long so I decided to get geranium. She went for quick few minutes and opened the box and said “Its capucine color”. I still wasnt sure about this color because never thought about pop color bags. All my bags are either black/navy. Aniway, I couldnt ask her for more because she said there is none so I was happily to take her at the end. She also brought silk fourbi but I told her that I have fourbi20 already. And than after we took 2 belts that I reserved before. I didnt have any big purchase history and our both appointment times were between 4-5pm but we still managed to get a bag. They are not the exact colors I wanted, but I think Im very lucky to get two bags at the end. And suprise thing is, I really like capucine birkin now! Color looks differently depends on light, indoor and outdoor. I already carried twice since I got it last week. Of course Im in love with G Asphalt kelly as well. So this is my story. Hope everyone can have happy moments at FSH and I’ll include pictures of my bags. Thanks everyone for reading!
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Congrats and thanks for sharing your story. You're one of the few lucky ones to score a Kelly and a Birkin, both in the 25 highly sought after size. I didn't know that the K25 comes in Gris Asphalt too. Such a beautiful neutral. Enjoy them in good health.
 
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cutebear84 said:
And Next day, I received my appointment at 4:15pm so we were looking about shop near there but it has been delayed to like after 5pm. I We arrived shop abound 4oclock and bought 1 belt for myself,husband and 1 pair of oran sandals. And I received sms that my appointment is ready and it was like nearly 5pm. I had to stop what I was looking and told them I’ll come back to get them after bag appointment. So that means I only have purchase history of buying 1 pair of shoes from like more than 3yrs ago. My SA also very straight forward. We just said hi and she asked me which bags im looking for. My husband told her this time that this is out 5th wedding anniversary so he wanted to get birkin25 for me to make our trip special. And she asked which color im looking for.I told her I only want etoupe, or neutral and gold color in only gold hardware. She asked me whether im interested in blue or red color and I remeber I said no to blue but I couldnt I said no to red. And 2nd choice will be constance18 but I prefer to get birkin rather than constance. She diappeard about 5mins and asked us to follow her. We went upstairs and my SA said, all the colors you are looking for is very hard to get because everyone wants it and they are not available. But she got something to show me and opened box. It was chocolate color with palladium hardware.I didn’t really like the color at all so I asked her again if any othher color such as red or even blue’s are available for me. Then she went like “u told me you don’t want red”. But I really couldnt remember I said that. Aniwai, she was looking at staff(?) iphone and told me which colors are available ans asked me to choose one. She also mentioned that she can’t bring two bags, only can bring one and show me. She gave me a choice of blue zellige and geranium. I wasnt familiar of these colors so I looked at my phone quickly to research colors. I didnt want make her to wait for long so I decided to get geranium. She went for quick few minutes and opened the box and said “Its capucine color”. I still wasnt sure about this color because never thought about pop color bags. All my bags are either black/navy. Aniway, I couldnt ask her for more because she said there is none so I was happily to take her at the end. She also brought silk fourbi but I told her that I have fourbi20 already. And than after we took 2 belts that I reserved before. I didnt have any big purchase history and our both appointment times were between 4-5pm but we still managed to get a bag. They are not the exact colors I wanted, but I think Im very lucky to get two bags at the end. And suprise thing is, I really like capucine birkin now! Color looks differently depends on light, indoor and outdoor. I already carried twice since I got it last week. Of course Im in love with G Asphalt kelly as well. So this is my story. Hope everyone can have happy moments at FSH and I’ll include pictures of my bags. Thanks everyone for reading!
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Congratulations ! You’re so lucky to get both in one trip !![emoji7][emoji7]
 
#26,096
Does anyone know that after giving an appointment confirmation and do not show up, can still apply for the coming days and get another appointment? I didn't manage to go my appointment this fri due to the sudden change of my travel plan, but I am going back to Paris tomorrow again, can someone share the experience please?
Thanks in advance!
 
#26,097
Letsseewt said:
Does anyone know that after giving an appointment confirmation and do not show up, can still apply for the coming days and get another appointment? I didn't manage to go my appointment this fri due to the sudden change of my travel plan, but I am going back to Paris tomorrow again, can someone share the experience please?
Thanks in advance!
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You can try going in and explaining the situation. Show them the confirmation text so they see that you were given an appointment. I’ve never tried this but it can’t hurt. Good luck!
 
#26,099
I just got back from Paris and it is definitely a struggle trying to get an appointment if you are not there for a while. Unless of course you get lucky and can get an appointment after one or two tries.

I had emailed two SAs that have helped me in the past for an appointment but no reply. I had only 3 days in Paris and tried for an appointment every day and also got turned down each time. The first day I stopped into the store and happened to run into the SA who helped me get my first Hermès Kelly 2 years ago, she remembered me as I saw her last year as well. At that time she squeezed me in for an appointment without having do it online last year but didn’t have any stock the day I met her. This time we had a nice chat and she told me SAs aren’t supposed to take appointments outside the online system anymore because it bumps out or delays those who got appointments online. She was very nice and wished me luck.

I tried every day going in and asking if there was any appointments and was turned down. The last day I was there i went in the morning, explained i tried 3 days but am leaving tomorrow buy she said no. Went to George V but they had no bags. Decided to go back to FSH for one last ditch effort. At first the hostess (different from the morning) told me no but she said you tried the other stores and i said yes. Then she said give me your passport and told me to wait. I was so happy!

Within 10 minutes she let me go upstairs to meet a SA who I hadn’t met before. I told her I wanted a K28 or B25/30 if not a Lindy 26. She came back after 10 min and said no B or K but had L26 but in an orangey colour I didn’t like. There were black ones in the morning but they had since sold. She said there was an Etoupe Lindy 30 clemence that I actually saw being shown to a client downstairs while I was waiting. I didn’t really want a 30 since I thought it was a bit big but I have wanted a bag in etoupe forever as it’s my fav hermès colour. I decided to look at it anyways and after a bit of deliberation I took it. I am weak!!

Then when I was CDG i actually saw a Lindy 30 in gris asphalt swift leather on display! I thought omg why did I go through all that to try and get an appointment to buy a bag that was at duty free. ugh. But it’s rare to find them at dutyfree, I’ve never seen them and Ive asked before. Oh well I’m still happy with my Lindy Etoupe though I did have second thoughts about it afterwards. Maybe I should have held out for a 26 since I don’t plan on buying multiple Lindy’s. In any case what’s done is done and I will enjoy my new bag!
 
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