Resellers getting Chanel items first and selling for premium
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Yup, exactly. CC used to do vlog sales and now it seems like she only sells through her consignment page
Its definitely become a cycle with her, and now shes rushing to sell items to justify her random “purchases”, Lol.
as an SA, i can say these resellers are quite the headache. I can only speak for my boutique when i say we all do our best to deterr resellers. If we get even the slightest feeling that a client is a possible reseller, we send their info to corporate. We check everyones purchase history to make sure we are not exceeding limits and such. But im sad to say not all stores are this way. SAs will sell just to make the sale (we dont get commission unfortunately.) we get frustrated when we see other boutiques not following the same rules and protocols. But as SAs, we can only do so much.
New to this thread, but have thought Catwalk city was bogus even from the beginning. Buying and returning bags for views to run ads to monetize a channel. That’s all it is, folks. Anyone who has to explain how financially secure they are, generally are not. Plenty of you tubers have the funds to collect. Just don’t believe she is one of them. Her voice is cloying and smug. Didn’t realize she’s a reseller now lol. Always buy from the boutique. Cut out these middlemen fraudsters. Didn’t she start her channel complaining about Chanel? Lol
Yes! Love Emma - she's authentic and her videos are enjoyable to watch.
Yes same here. She strikes me as very authentic
I used to watch her sometimes. I recall in one video she mentioned that if you ever wanted something she'd be willing to get it for you if you lived in another country. I'm naive, I thought she was being a nice person and offering from kindness.
Maybe she was a reseller, who knows. I know she had a sister who also ran a YT channel although she never really spoke fondly of her own sister.
She was always up front about having a curated collection and that is why I liked to watch her. But every now and then there is a bags video, dropping that she wants to sell bags and then selling them within minutes. Nothing wrong with that, but not selling trough a third party is also saving her money.
If she said that she has a reasonably unique position and want to monitize that, then it would feel different. She has talked about her finances and pov in the past. The way everything is set up now doesn't make her look financial savvy but inauthentic and money grabbing. She is even making the most out of her puppy with all those ads and his own instagram.
Even with the renovations, destinaton wedding, birkin and so coming up I would rather have her be honest about this than softly nudging her following in a certain way of thinking. Which is her right to do but in my head she went from "click and subscribe if you like this energy" to reseller real quick.
Rissalicious, thanks for the intel. Do you think that reporting people to corporate has improved your boutique's ability to serve actual customers? Have they been limited in their purchases company-wide?
And where are SAs not following the rules? I'm assuming department store boutiques? My boutique SA once said something unprompted to me about resellers trying to snatch up all of the 21S pink cardigan that was so popular, I could tell he was annoyed about it but didn't elaborate on what (if anything) they were doing to stop it.
As a company, we're kind of slow. Our Ops manager says that even if we report these people with all the evidence (ive sent screenshots of people ive found on FB to prove), it takes a long time for corporate to do anything about it. Which is really frustrating.
When we look into what boutiques are not following rules, a lot of it are department stores. Some are bigger volume boutiques too.
Another thing that makes it hard for us (SAs) is that there is a huge problem with people leaking internal info. All this info and images that people get their hands on that is meant for Chanel only gets posted out there and then EVERYONE knows whats coming and tries to reserve everything. Gone are the days where we would quietly do our buys and wait to have any reserves until a month before collection launch. now a days people know things before us and it gets overwhelming when we get a huge influx of people reaching out for things 6 months ahead of the collection. Thats another reason why things are much harder to get these days (for clients), and why popular items are getting fully booked 6 months ahead. These days theres a reserve list for everything
All this buying reselling stuff really turns me off. It just makes everything less luxe. I’m not trying to buy a $5k+ Chanel bag off FACEBOOK or Instagram for over retail or even AT retail. Ew. I’ll just wait for something at the store if I have to pay the same amount or more! Nothing special or even fully safe about buying from a random person off social media. It’d be different if they were charging significantly less.
also I wish people would realize having a trendy in-demand bag does not automatically make you stylish and cool. It’s about the person wearing the bag and not the bag alone. If I see a super trendy bag worn by someone with bad style, then that’s just thousands of dollars wasted.
also I wish people would realize having a trendy in-demand bag does not automatically make you stylish and cool. It’s about the person wearing the bag and not the bag alone. If I see a super trendy bag worn by someone with bad style, then that’s just thousands of dollars wasted.
I thought I was the only one who felt that it was too soon for her to push these pet ads surrounding her new puppy. Like give yourself a chance to enjoy him instead of trying to monetize. A lot of people were also turned off by her Farfetch video where she was encouraging her followers to spend a certain amount in order to have access to Celine and other brands.
Im watching CCs Lady Dior review, and I cant believe she paid $5k for that bag.
I guess shes not worried about the resell given her subbies will probably still give her full price for it.
Ill give her until Fall before shes “curating” again. She seems underwhelmed by it, in the video.
I guess shes not worried about the resell given her subbies will probably still give her full price for it.
Ill give her until Fall before shes “curating” again. She seems underwhelmed by it, in the video.