There ought to be a private viewing area at the boutique!

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#1
While your SA is showing birkin/kelly bags, do you ever get disturbed by other customers who try to look at or <worse> steal the item right in front of you?

My SA was showing me two Kelly bags. Out of nowhere a RUDE lady came straight to the table and reach for the Kelly. My SA had to tell her that she is busy at the moment and the item is already spoken for. I was standing right there! Unbelievable... :wtf:

Therefore, I propose a private viewing area at the boutique so that no one can interrupt you and your SA!
 
#2
I think there is one @ the Wall St. store. Atleast when I got my HAC there in Dec. she took me into a small little room with a small sofa and closed the door so I could really look at and inspect the bag to make sure. I felt so VIP! I guess all the boutiques don't have that.
 
#3
shopaholicious said:
While your SA is showing birkin/kelly bags, do you ever get disturbed by other customers who try to look at or <worse> steal the item right in front of you?
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This happens a lot. It is like vultures circling! I have had another SA at the store grab the bag that I was buying from behind the register and show it to one of her customers!
 
#4
^^Yes, that little room at Wall St. is great! I haven't had a problem, but I guess it depends on how busy the store is, and how large it is. I tend to treat each of the glass counters as a viewing area so that if I see a customer and SA using one, I will try to give wide berth. It's just rude to interrupt.
 
#5
Ranag said:
This happens a lot. It is like vultures circling! I have had another SA at the store grab the bag that I was buying from behind the register and show it to one of her customers!
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:roflmfao: Couldn't agree more, that happened to me last time when I saw a customer viewing "my" 28cm kelly at the shop. Indeed grabbing / even touching the bag when other people is viewing or enquiring is very impolite. I had to be very patient (and pressed my hand down!), try to be a "civilised vulture" and wait till that customer no longer checking the bag. Thinking the other way round, would we lose "chances" of catching a glimpse of our dream bags if all viewing activities are carried out in a corner?
 
#6
LuvBirkin said:
Thinking the other way round, would we lose "chances" of catching a glimpse of our dream bags if all viewing activities are carried out in a corner?
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I think I would rather lose the chance of glimpsing something than have to fight to get something that I am already purchasing. Some of these people are very brazen about it as well. One day when I was buying a Kelly, a man approached my husband and offered to buy the bag from us for a thousand dollars more than I paid - right in front of an SA. :sad:
 
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debwonger said:
^^Yes, that little room at Wall St. is great! I haven't had a problem, but I guess it depends on how busy the store is, and how large it is. I tend to treat each of the glass counters as a viewing area so that if I see a customer and SA using one, I will try to give wide berth. It's just rude to interrupt.
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ITA! My SA and I were using one of these counters while the store wasn't busy. Granted it was one of the main ones, but I had another customer reach across, directly in front of me to get something. I've noticed that some not so very nice patrons are less than subtle when they want something. Others do not even wait their turn! My SA, bless her, will ask my permission or even pretend not to notice someone else if I am shopping with her.:heart:
 
#9
My SAs take me either to the dressing room or the meeting rooms behind the manager's office. I've had people stare and point at my bags in the store and then come up to feel them before I even get to see it for myself. RUDENESS!
 
#10
I agree! When I went to pick up my Birkin there were people staring and edging towards my bag, luckily my SA didn't let my baby out of her hands other than to let me try my bag out and for my friend to have a little play with it. I could see other customers asking if the bag was available

When I bought my LV Murakami I was taken into a private room to view it because they knew people would want it if they saw it
 
#11
Agree! Small viewing corners / rooms would be great. Though sometimes I like to see what kind of bags other customers are buying... It's quite interesting actually! I just saw a 32cm Braise / Rouge Garrance shiny croc Kelly phw with diamonds. So I do understand when people are staring but I'd prefer privacy myself.
 
#12
I have been on the other side of it - admiring the lovely orders people were picking up at FSH when I was there. Of course I maintained a distance and just gazed lovingly.....but I would never have seen some of the lovely birkins I spotted if there was a secret room.

I know what you are saying about a private area though - It sounds like a few people simply have no manners. I hope they don't spoil it for the voyers among us hehe.
 
#13
I was accosted once at the boutique. Then subsequently stalked around the store AND interrogated by the soliciting troll! Since then, I go into the room myself and just wait to have things brought to me. It was awful.
 
#14
I agree. While I have not been subjected to bags being taken out from under me, I have had random people come up and touch my (own!) bag in an H store. Very disturbing. I guess different folks have different thresholds for what is appropriate behavior. If she had politely asked, I would have gladly let her see/touch my bag. But to just come up to a total stranger and start fondling a bag that belongs to someone else...I was completely nonplussed.
 
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