Price Increases 2023

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This is very disappointing news to me as well. Far from a VIP, I have been waiting 2 years+ for my quota, and now I’m not sure it will still be within my budget. I was a Chanel lover for many years but their constant increases eventually pushed me away. I decided to focus on Hermes after I bought a new-to-me Bolide years ago and was blown away by the quality. Ever since, I’ve budgetted my discretionary income towards Hermes, but am now potentially priced out. As a handbag devotee for my entire adult life, I feel quite sad that these increases (beyond inflation) continue to happen. Where is the ceiling for these bags? $15k? $20k?
 
Well, for folks in the US and Europe where there is no (fixed) pre spend requirement, the increase is not as bad. Imagine those in Asia where 1:1, 2:1 is the requirement. It’s a double whammy.
Not sure about that. I live in NYC and have heard that it is 5:1…
All my bags are from Paris. I never managed to score one here. I am only buying what I love but it’s far from what other people spend.
 
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I am currently waiting for my SO to arrive (B30 Matte Alligator Noir with RGHW) and shocked because of this huge increase :wtf: hope they increased Alligator less than 20% :biggrin: otherwise I have to pay an amount that would be as much as the SO AND a "normal" Birkin or Kelly on top; back the days :wtf:
I know the sentence that is about to follow sound weird but read also the following one then it should make sense :blush: I hope for you that it takes a few weeks to arrive (if your country already had the price increase) instead of just a few days. Imagine you were recently told that your SO is waiting for you but you couldn’t pick it up because you were away on vacation or for other reasons :wtf:. I think I would go bananas.

I wonder whether these prices listed by the IG account are legit, it’s seems so way out of their normal increase behavior and I just find it weird that there should be major differences across leathers - nearly 17% for Togo while 9% for Epsom.

Maybe those that go to Paris in the next few days and visit the stores can communicate prices of bags on display here.
 
I know the sentence that is about to follow sound weird but read also the following one then it should make sense :blush: I hope for you that it takes a few weeks to arrive (if your country already had the price increase) instead of just a few days. Imagine you were recently told that your SO is waiting for you but you couldn’t pick it up because you were away on vacation or for other reasons :wtf:. I think I would go bananas.

I wonder whether these prices listed by the IG account are legit, it’s seems so way out of their normal increase behavior and I just find it weird that there should be major differences across leathers - nearly 17% for Togo while 9% for Epsom.

Maybe those that go to Paris in the next few days and visit the stores can communicate prices of bags on display here.
I chatted with the lady posting on IG via DMs. Seems legit as she wouldn't post a mere guess (from one FSH photo it wasn't clear if it was a Constance 18 or 24 with the price tag), only confirmed info. She mentioned the new prices were already on display at FSH on Saturday (31st of Dec) when the store was open. Some of the old prices are from another well known purse page and some from here. New prices are from hermes.com (people who previously bought the product can access the product link in their profile/order history and see current price, despite the product not being visible to the public due to unavailability. But only for recent products as older ones have invalid links).

Plus it was confirmed by H that they need to increase more this year due to inflation etc.

Edit: chatted a bit more with her, all price info comes from pictures, but the sizes got mixed up in the case of the Kelly.
 
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I chatted with the lady posting on IG via DMs. Seems legit as she wouldn't post a mere guess (from one FSH photo it wasn't clear if it was a Constance 18 or 24 with the price tag), only confirmed info. She mentioned the new prices were already on display at FSH on Saturday (31st of Dec) when the store was open. Some of the old prices are from another well known purse page and some from here. New prices are from hermes.com (people who previously bought the product can access the product link in their profile/order history and see current price, despite the product not being visible to the public due to unavailability. But only for recent products as older ones have invalid links).

Plus it was confirmed by H that they need to increase more this year due to inflation etc.

Edit: chatted a bit more with her, all price info comes from pictures, but the sizes got mixed up in the case of the Kelly.
I do kind of wish we wouldn’t update the price thread until some personal confirmation of the price (ie the tpfer bought the item or at least saw a receipt) as opposed to a rando social media person secondhand info. JMHO.
 
I do kind of wish we wouldn’t update the price thread until some personal confirmation of the price (ie the tpfer bought the item or at least saw a receipt) as opposed to a rando social media person secondhand info. JMHO.
I have seen a few of the photos of the bags with the prices. And one of the people sending the info to her is currently in Paris out shopping (plus I have been chatting with him for a year). IMO it's better to have these prices than to have none. At least I as a consumer am happier with an indication than none. In case I can't edit my post in the price thread anymore I can copy and change wrong info into a new post.
 
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