Thanks for the advice. SA assured me today we will still be offered the black K28 even if we purchase this bag. She estimates that offer will not happen until later this year anyway. So it is up to us to decide. So we can have this bag if we want to. It is a gorgeous bag. Very hard to walk away from it. It is also true K35 will not be an everyday bag for this size. I am also concerned with the Veau Tadelakt leather for its scratch proning issue. Reading some of the Tadelakt threads, it seems the feelings are fixed: it is a very beautiful smooth leather but also not as scratch resistant as pebbled. So We have tonight to decide if we want it. It is hard. We might just have to let it pass?