Paris trip for Hermes

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#29,204
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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Sorry...I am a little delayed in posting, but wanted to share. I always enjoy this thread. This was our second successful trip to FSH this year. My husband and I were in Paris from November 27th to December 1st. Both of us were denied appointments every day. On Thursday, we decided to do some shopping anyways outside the leather department. Our SA from women’s ready to wear was absolutely wonderful. My husband shared our lack of luck getting an appointment for a bag. So she sought approval to assist us with our wish list. Unfortunately there was no stock that afternoon. She told us to meet her again the next morning to see what she could do. We promptly arrived at 10am the next morning. She escorted us down to the leather department to see a host. The host immediately assigned us to another SA. The SA asked for my wish list. We waited for about 30 minutes. She returned with a small box, asking us to follow her. We followed to a private back corner of the jewelry area. She proceeded to unbox a Chevre Mysore Mini Kelly in Rose Pourpre. Pink wasn’t my first choice, but when I saw the bag I was mesmerized. Absolutely over the moon!
 

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Lhpp.2 said:
Registered for an appointment on 26th!
Please spread some H fairy dust to me!
Hopefully I get an appointment and also in the morning!!!!![emoji5]
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Woohooo
Got an appointment at 11:30am!
Thanks for the fairy dust!
From everyone’s experience, should I head into the store at 10:30am just in case my appointment is moved earlier?
 
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periogirl28 said:
You just got a Kelly 32 yes? Your SA may consider May 2019 still within your quota period for a B/K/C, just so you know. Appointments are not limited in the same way.
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@atsukocat
Agreed with this comment, and to add "the quota for B/K" also depends on how well you know the SA, sometimes C doesn't count as part of quota, and whether you have built a profile at fsh, ie not just after bags
 
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lifestylememoirs said:
Sorry...I am a little delayed in posting, but wanted to share. I always enjoy this thread. This was our second successful trip to FSH this year. My husband and I were in Paris from November 27th to December 1st. Both of us were denied appointments every day. On Thursday, we decided to do some shopping anyways outside the leather department. Our SA from women’s ready to wear was absolutely wonderful. My husband shared our lack of luck getting an appointment for a bag. So she sought approval to assist us with our wish list. Unfortunately there was no stock that afternoon. She told us to meet her again the next morning to see what she could do. We promptly arrived at 10am the next morning. She escorted us down to the leather department to see a host. The host immediately assigned us to another SA. The SA asked for my wish list. We waited for about 30 minutes. She returned with a small box, asking us to follow her. We followed to a private back corner of the jewelry area. She proceeded to unbox a Chevre Mysore Mini Kelly in Rose Pourpre. Pink wasn’t my first choice, but when I saw the bag I was mesmerized. Absolutely over the moon!
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So cute!! Beautiful and love that it’s in Chèvre! Congratulations! [emoji322]
 
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NanamiRyu said:
So... this is how the story goes.

My trip was not supposed to happen but had no other choice. In order to keep my airline status I had to do yet another mileage run before end of the year. So I dragged my partner in crime aka baby sis in a very tiring road trip over to this side of Atlantic.

We started our trip elsewhere and ended up arriving in Paris evening of Wednesday. I was a bit worried about not making my appt time if granted an appt slot before my train hits Paris. But that was a rather wishful thinking as I got the dreaded “thank you for your keen interest” text. And the same for Thursday slots again. But third times the charm, I finally got the text I’ve been waiting for last night. However, sis was BITTER as she was rejected yet again.

My appt was 10:30am and I didn’t bother to arrive early as I am so done with any sort of queuing these days. By the time I got to leather hostess, it was few mins past 10:30 and most of, if not all of 10:30 slot folks were assigned SAs and spread out all over the stores.

My SA of the day was a very lovely young lady who I have never seen before. I told her I wanted a K, with size preference in order of 25, 28, and 20. I wanted nothing Togo, Black, or in fact anything that was neutral colored no matter how popular they may be. And if no K available, I would also like a C24, which a shade in blue might work as most of my bags are too “rosy.”

While she left to check, I of course started to check out the other customers. (And bitter sis busied herself registering for tomorrow’s appt) Store seemed busy but not as insanely bad as I would’ve expected during pre Christmas week. Only bag I actually noticed being shown was an etoupe GP to a young couple 10 feet away from me though, as most of other 10:30 slot customers were being served further away.

I couldn’t really tell if couple with GP was happy with the bag or not. I think they wanted to see gold, which I suppose they also had. But SA told them they can only see one bag at a time. And they can’t buy both bags either. Yikes. H certainly does not make shopping fun. In the end they took the bag, but looked somewhat upset about how H works.

After few more mins of people watching, I spotted my SA returning. I almost gave up as I thought she was empty handed at first, with register station blocking my view in certain way. But yay! She was carrying some boxes, with one definitely holding a bag that fits my spec!!

Half minute later, we were in a private room and SA started with small things. A couple of card cases they started doing. Design itself is very petit H but it’s somehow supposed to be not. While I do have very similar ones back home I thought why not get one more.

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love this card holder. do you happen to have the sku?!
 
#26,456
Very nice and thanks for sharing! May I ask what did you scored earlier this year? Was that also a Kelly? Was it from the same passport account?

Does anyone know if Petite K also count as a quota bag?

Thanks a lot!

lifestylememoirs said:
Sorry...I am a little delayed in posting, but wanted to share. I always enjoy this thread. This was our second successful trip to FSH this year. My husband and I were in Paris from November 27th to December 1st. Both of us were denied appointments every day. On Thursday, we decided to do some shopping anyways outside the leather department. Our SA from women’s ready to wear was absolutely wonderful. My husband shared our lack of luck getting an appointment for a bag. So she sought approval to assist us with our wish list. Unfortunately there was no stock that afternoon. She told us to meet her again the next morning to see what she could do. We promptly arrived at 10am the next morning. She escorted us down to the leather department to see a host. The host immediately assigned us to another SA. The SA asked for my wish list. We waited for about 30 minutes. She returned with a small box, asking us to follow her. We followed to a private back corner of the jewelry area. She proceeded to unbox a Chevre Mysore Mini Kelly in Rose Pourpre. Pink wasn’t my first choice, but when I saw the bag I was mesmerized. Absolutely over the moon!
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