Hi everyone! I've been following this thread for a while and had some successful experience with the mothership store before, and would like to share the latest experience of my DH at FSH this past weekend(apology first that the post could be a bit long):
Ever since the online lottery system for FSH started, DH and I have been trying to register every time we are in Paris. I got my appointment the first time trying (without any significant purchase history at that time) and scored a mini constance, but my husband never succeeded getting any appointment. So from that on almost all the purchase history are under my passport and nearly none under his.
Recently DH has been working in Germany and he's been trying to register for online appointment whenever he has time, and then last Friday, he finally got a confirmation for appointment on Saturday(March 16). However the appointment was at 5:20pm which was close to the end of working hour (plus they still have that protest going on around FSH). While I was still deciding if it was worth, DH bought his train ticket to Paris (almost 4 hours) and decided to take the chance.
DH arrived in Paris around mid day on Saturday and by the time he finished lunch, the appointment time didn't change at all. I told him that's a good sign cuz that meant they might still had some inventory left, and before he went in, I gave him a list of the bags/specs I wanted (I've collected some BKCs so far, and are extremely speicific about what I wanted next).
DH checked in at the leather concierge around 4:30pm (by that time his appointment moved to 5:10pm) and told the concierge that he had a train to catch at 7pm, so the leather concierge told him to wait for a min and would try to accomodate him earlier. Then after 5 mins he was called to the front and this nice lady SA showed up to him and asked him what he wanted. He told the SA that he would like to buy me a nice gift, then told the SA that Craie/Beton/Gris Tourterelle for B/K 25 (my favorite sizes and can use daily). No preference for hardware, but I've never had bag with RGHW so bags with RGHW would be interested as well. Lastly he told the SA that the bag I wanted the most was the special edition birkins that has the two stripes on the outside lining ( he didn't know the name for the bag was Birkin Officier @@@), then the SA asked him for this specific model, would I still insist on the size 25, he then said no for this special edition, I would consider both 25 and 30. The SA took down the specs and left.
DH waited for around 25mins, and by that time other people who were going at the same time were all getting SAs back already (but were only shown Roulis/Picotins, DH quietly observed hahaha). Then his SA finally came back with one large box and two small boxes, and asked DH to follow her to the menswear section. On their way the SA said, this is from your special request list. From the size of the box, DH asked if this was a Birkin 30 and SA smiled at him and said YES. DH then asked if this was the special edition with the two stripes (@@@), SA said Yes you're right! Are you ready? Then she took out the bag and my husband instantly texted me that he scored my Top One dream bag of this year! He told me he was so excited that he almost screamed out OMG, and he then understood why I'm so passionate about scoring at Hermes everytime (now he's hooked on this feeling). The SA also showed him a short wallet which he declined as I never use wallet but only card holder, and took a perfume that SA recommended.
DH was so happy that his effort of going the distance paid off in literally the best way it could, and he totally forgot to take pictures of the bag until he got back to Germany. And I really appreciate how he gets my passion with Hermes and would do his best to get it for me. It also shows that you can really still score bags on Saturday late afternoon!
Lastly, the pics DH took for the special edition Birkin Officier size 30, Blue Encre with Bordeaux stripes and inside lining — my ABSOLUTE favorite combination among the several Birkin Officiers (trying to mock what I used to do at home for all other BKCs, but his lighting is disastrous hahahaha):
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I'm lucky I received both FSH rejections during delicious dinners, so it was easier to deal with 
