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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SKS said:
Maybe try a different browser on your phone?
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In addition to trying a different browser on your phone, make sure you're not using a private browsing window. When my friend was applying for appointments using her phone, she was encountering all sorts of error messages and didn't realize what the issue was until the last day. As soon as she switched to a regular browsing window (not private) and a new email address (not one that was blocked or getting error messages previously), she was able to register for an appt. :)
 
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Got lucky with a lottery appointment in Paris this week and I managed to score a QB.

Based on my experience, I can confirm that there’s no such thing as a free lunch in Paris at the moment via the lottery system. I don’t want to go into details but there’s accompanying spend involved on appointment day. And it’s definitely more than 1:1. Very consistent with global prespend requirements.

The saving grace is, the SA was awesome. Makes you so comfortable that you want to spend. And the QB was a rather lovely offer. More than makes up for my lousy exp at FSH in May.

So ladies, don’t give up on trying! The lottery system really allocates slots but whether you score a QB, it’s up to you.
 
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eatprayloveandbehappy said:
Got lucky with a lottery appointment in Paris this week and I managed to score a QB.

Based on my experience, I can confirm that there’s no such thing as a free lunch in Paris at the moment via the lottery system. I don’t want to go into details but there’s accompanying spend involved on appointment day. And it’s definitely more than 1:1. Very consistent with global prespend requirements.

The saving grace is, the SA was awesome. Makes you so comfortable that you want to spend. And the QB was a rather lovely offer. More than makes up for my lousy exp at FSH in May.

So ladies, don’t give up on trying! The lottery system really allocates slots but whether you score a QB, it’s up to you.
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Can you clarify a bit? Basically, unless you do the prespend before the lottery appointment, you are unlikely to get offered a QB?
 
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eatprayloveandbehappy said:
Got lucky with a lottery appointment in Paris this week and I managed to score a QB.

Based on my experience, I can confirm that there’s no such thing as a free lunch in Paris at the moment via the lottery system. I don’t want to go into details but there’s accompanying spend involved on appointment day. And it’s definitely more than 1:1. Very consistent with global prespend requirements.

The saving grace is, the SA was awesome. Makes you so comfortable that you want to spend. And the QB was a rather lovely offer. More than makes up for my lousy exp at FSH in May.

So ladies, don’t give up on trying! The lottery system really allocates slots but whether you score a QB, it’s up to you.
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Congratulations on the appointment and receiving a QB! That's amazing!!

Could I just ask if you were asked to purchase other items before the Q-bag offer? And happy for you not to answer this as conscious that you don't want to go into details
 
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eatprayloveandbehappy said:
Got lucky with a lottery appointment in Paris this week and I managed to score a QB.

Based on my experience, I can confirm that there’s no such thing as a free lunch in Paris at the moment via the lottery system. I don’t want to go into details but there’s accompanying spend involved on appointment day. And it’s definitely more than 1:1. Very consistent with global prespend requirements.

The saving grace is, the SA was awesome. Makes you so comfortable that you want to spend. And the QB was a rather lovely offer. More than makes up for my lousy exp at FSH in May.

So ladies, don’t give up on trying! The lottery system really allocates slots but whether you score a QB, it’s up to you.
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Omg wow! That’s crazy! Congrats on your bag! Please share pics or details of what you were offered if you don’t mind!
 
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Can you clarify a bit? Basically, unless you do the prespend before the lottery appointment, you are unlikely to get offered a QB?
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You need to prespend to get a lottery slot ie build profile. Doesn’t need to be a lot. Then during the appt, you spend again. Hope this clarifies.

@ntvanessa - this answers your qn too. Better to let others who have been successful share their experiences too. Then we can fact check.
 
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eatprayloveandbehappy said:
You need to prespend to get a lottery slot ie build profile. Doesn’t need to be a lot. Then during the appt, you spend again. Hope this clarifies.

@ntvanessa - this answers your qn too. Better to let others who have been successful share their experiences too. Then we can fact check.
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Prespend doesn’t help with getting lottery appt for sure. My prespend (me and my wife )over the last 2 years is significant but I have only gotten the lottery once only in 2021. My wife has never gotten any. She has 2/2 for walk in cancellation appts though for our past 2 trips.

But prespend does aid in bag offers. We had probably the worst experience ever ( very very hostile SA) for the recent appt. I can say it would have been a garden party/herbag or outright no bkc had my wife not have a decent profile in fsh
 
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eatprayloveandbehappy said:
You need to prespend to get a lottery slot ie build profile. Doesn’t need to be a lot. Then during the appt, you spend again. Hope this clarifies.

@ntvanessa - this answers your qn too. Better to let others who have been successful share their experiences too. Then we can fact check.
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I agree with you! My experience last year. Also you need to click with SA that you prespend and SA with appointment. It’s not as simple as prespend. I felt that I could get an appointment last week if I put the effort. Honestly I wasn’t in the mood to play the game. We were in Spain for personal reasons and trying to resolve some issues that left me without energy to play the Hermes game. I could have spent what we did spend in the airport but decided not to. I wanted zero drama that last leg back home. Came home and spent more money at my home store. I ordered a cute gold necklace. My home store SA basically said your profile is in good shape; lol. She deserves it! She finds me the impossible Chypre sandals and hard to find things.
 
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Of course having a healthy profile helps AT an appointment. It also helps (a lot) when trying to get a walk-in appointment.

However it is absolutely possible to get an iconic bag at a lottery appointment without a prior spend. Hundreds of success stories in this thread prove this to be the case.

As for pre-spend being needed to get a lottery appointment, that's horse hockey. It's a lottery. There's a slight chance that some criteria are used to allot some of the appointments, but most are clearly random. We have members here with seven-figure spends who can't get a lottery appointment.
 
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eatprayloveandbehappy said:
You need to prespend to get a lottery slot ie build profile. Doesn’t need to be a lot. Then during the appt, you spend again. Hope this clarifies.

@ntvanessa - this answers your qn too. Better to let others who have been successful share their experiences too. Then we can fact check.
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Please do not convey messages like that and make people believe they need pre-spend to get a lottery and more spend to get a QB !
That cant be less true !

Nothing is required to get a lottery neither a bag !
Multiple girls (including myself) got several appointments and QB each time with 0 spend but the bags and maybe an old twilly like 8 years ago …

Congrats anyway on your new QB :)
 
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eatprayloveandbehappy said:
You need to prespend to get a lottery slot ie build profile. Doesn’t need to be a lot. Then during the appt, you spend again. Hope this clarifies.

@ntvanessa - this answers your qn too. Better to let others who have been successful share their experiences too. Then we can fact check.
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Hi, but how do you know that you would not receive the offer without the spend during the appointment. Did the SA mention something?
Of course spending help, also the SA to evaluate if someone is a real client or not but in my experience no immediate spending before the offering.

Congrats on your new bag :happydance:

Kind regards
 
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