The only silver lining to my Brexit cloud is that we may be able to get a bigger discount in Duty Free by dint of being outwith the EU. [emoji848]
Price Increase Update
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I would be amazed if anybody with a Crystal Ball will predict what's going to happen re Brexit, let alone ordinary people like us! Nobody knows what's happening with Brexit at this stage. Anybody says otherwise is just pure speculation!
This was a conversation I had with a store manager in Paris, who knows I order from both Irish and French websites to ship to London and vice versa.
Of course I do not know what will happen with Brexit - I may have an economics degree but I am not Theresa May (who frankly may not know either). But in a post-Brexit world it is unlikely that we would have the Hermes website choices we currently do.
I for one am hoping I can finally answer "yes" when asked "madam, would you like tax refund?" When I shop in Hermes in France! 
haha me too, but even with brexit, we are likely tied to harmonised rules during a transition period, for some time so VAT refund would not be immediate in 2019 unfortunately.I for one am hoping I can finally answer "yes" when asked "madam, would you like tax refund?" When I shop in Hermes in France!
Nothing is going to be immediate fortunately or unfortunately which ever the way you see it.
Al fellow European Tpfers can atleast rejoice in the fact that many H items are quite a bit more expensive in the good old USA! Europe will likely still be the best place to purchase!
Where's the dislike button? lol
Ha ha. I am hoping the US escapes any increases in the near future due to the discrepancy that already exists!
I was talking to my SM last week and she did tell me U.S. is getting a price increase. But no details on the increase percentage.
I don't know about that, both Switzerland and Norway have Hermès sites with a similar selection to that of the EU countries. Of course you never know with Brexit, but I wouldn't worry too much.
Per @papertiger there will be 12.5% increase on silks in the UK come 2019.
For comparison it was 10% this year across all depts. In the past, percentage of increase varied by depts but this year was an exception. Remains to be seen what the percentage of increase would be in other depts.
It appears from H.com that prices are not being raised as much as predicted. I hope that means lower increases in the US as well.
Yes indeed, UK increases turned out to be somewhere around the 3 percent mark.
Maybe H has taken notice of my earlier post in this thread