Hi everyone, this is my first post here (wait I just looked, it's my second post!) but I've been a member for many years. I just got my first Chanel, a classic black caviar WOC with gold hardware. I am not really a super high end type of girl, but my husband's work was having a formal party and I needed a black clutch, so I thought I'd get something classic that I won't get tired of. What says "classic" more than Chanel? (I originally wanted the YSL WOC but I saw on this forum that the quality didn't really hold up.) I was pretty ignorant to the high demand of the classic WOC so less than a week before the party I thought I'd be able to just walk into a boutique and buy one. Silly me. My husband called everywhere near us in the US and they all had a waiting list. We live near Seattle, so my husband got the idea to call the Chanel boutique in Holt Renfrew in Vancouver, BC, and luckily they had it! So the next day we drove up and picked up my new WOC. I love it -- it's timeless and understated.