What are some of your unpopular Chanel opinions?

[BUIGOVA]

Update: pulled the trigger and bought it back today paying double the price

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Sounds like you re-purchased your WOC before the price increase. Kudos to you!! Thank you for this post. I had listed for sale my So Black, Chevron, Reissue WOC, and i just took it down. I will not sell because it was a birthday present to myself a couple of years back. I loved it then, however the black hardware made me nervous... I read somewhere online it can peel and chip. My SA told me that she has not seen this kind of feedback. I am keeping my gem... if I decided to repurchase it would be more expensive and hard to find....

 

[2manychins]

I find that purchasing a Chanel bag is a hassle....between finding a good SA... making the line to get in the store.... hoping the stock of the day is interesting... otherwise you need to find the time to come back at another time and hope to find something then....if you buy, and for some reason decide to return, going through the shame of returning... finding a suitable bag to use the store credit....if unlucky, a price increase took place already.... and if you are exchanging for the same bag, the price difference is due because the same bag is more expensive now.... finally, if you find the bag you want, you are happy.... however this exercise is quite exhausting... don’t you think?

In my case, every Chanel bag I own represents a lot of effort that begins with having worked and earned the money to buy that Chanel bag, and having been in the mood, and also having had the determination to go through the steps described above.... what do you guys think?

Luckily, at this point in time, I have a great SA. She rocks... and she does so much for me as it is... however she can’t save me from the hassle...

Where do you shop? I’ve never had to go through all that, maybe I’ve just been lucky.

 

[snowing may]

Sounds like you re-purchased your WOC before the price increase. Kudos to you!! Thank you for this post. I had listed for sale my So Black, Chevron, Reissue WOC, and i just took it down. I will not sell because it was a birthday present to myself a couple of years back. I loved it then, however the black hardware made me nervous... I read somewhere online it can peel and chip. My SA told me that she has not seen this kind of feedback. I am keeping my gem... if I decided to repurchase it would be more expensive and hard to find....
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Definitely keep it. Such a gem!

 

[BB8]

Sounds like you re-purchased your WOC before the price increase. Kudos to you!! Thank you for this post. I had listed for sale my So Black, Chevron, Reissue WOC, and i just took it down. I will not sell because it was a birthday present to myself a couple of years back. I loved it then, however the black hardware made me nervous... I read somewhere online it can peel and chip. My SA told me that she has not seen this kind of feedback. I am keeping my gem... if I decided to repurchase it would be more expensive and hard to find....
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So sleek! If you're able---definitely a keeper, IMO.

 

[Kitties Are Cute]

I dislike when people call the accumulation of their Chanel items (or any brand of items) a “collection”. To me a collection is about quantity, and I don’t think luxury and fashion is about having as much as you can get. More is not better. And the term also sounds like you’re constantly on the search for more and more and are never done. Like trying to fill a void or something. I feel like you appreciate or enjoy each individual item less when you have so much. Just me though. I know a lot of people like having “collections”… and I’m probably just misinterpreting the way it’s used.

 

[lala_retro]

I find that purchasing a Chanel bag can be a hassle....it may take some time to find a good SA... sometimes one has to go in line to get in the store.... hoping the stock of the day is interesting... otherwise one needs to find the time to come back at another time, and hope to find something then....if you buy, and for some reason decide to return, going through the shame of returning... finding a suitable bag to use the store credit....if unlucky, a price increase took place already.... and if you are exchanging for the same bag, the price difference is due because the same bag is more expensive now.... finally, if you find the bag you want, you are finally happy.... however this exercise can be quite exhausting... don’t you think?
Luckily, at this point in time, I have a great SA. She rocks... and she does so much for me as it is... however she can’t save me from a possible hassle...

The shame of returning...so real!! I've only done it once, and my SA is great, but I felt very anxious about the whole process. I miss the days when every collection launch wasn't a guessing game and a feeding frenzy, when you can just walk into a store and most of the new launch would be there, available to be tried on and bought.

I dislike when people call the accumulation of their Chanel items (or any brand of items) a “collection”. To me a collection is about quantity, and I don’t think luxury and fashion is about having as much as you can get. More is not better. And the term also sounds like you’re constantly on the search for more and more and are never done. Like trying to fill a void or something. I feel like you appreciate or enjoy each individual item less when you have so much. Just me though. I know a lot of people like having “collections”… and I’m probably just misinterpreting the way it’s used.

I think I look at my Chanel bags as a collection because it's a group of items with common identifiers that I curate, in the goal of having pieces that I love and cherish that would work for most common occasions. Over time there will be a slow but continual adding and subtracting to this curation process, which for me is part of the joy. But I do agree it can't be a collection that you just always only add to, that feels like a slippery slope to hoarding.

On the other hand...must fill the void with something, might as well as be Chanel XD.

 

[loves]

I remember when Chanel’s top tier classic bags were Hermes’ entry-level bag prices and I can’t get it out of my head that their bags today are not worth the price tag.

 

[sweetpea_2009]

I think I look at my Chanel bags as a collection because it's a group of items with common identifiers that I curate, in the goal of having pieces that I love and cherish that would work for most common occasions. Over time there will be a slow but continual adding and subtracting to this curation process, which for me is part of the joy.

This 100%.

 

[Shejoh]

The uproar over the Chanel water bottle makes zero sense to me.

 

[classybags4ever]

The Chanel 19 is one of the most hideous bags I’ve seen and I don’t know what Chanel was thinking when making it. I think people only want it bc it’s trendy and not bc it’s a nice bag.

 

[Lulumelons]

I remember when Chanel’s top tier classic bags were Hermes’ entry-level bag prices and I can’t get it out of my head that their bags today are not worth the price tag.

But also, when and how did we became conditioned to think that the simple grocery/market bag PICOTIN was worth 2-3k? It's scraps of leather. I hope hermes fans don't get offended because that's what that bag is.

Lindy initially I thought was such a weird bag! I mean... some hermes bag are ugly. Regardless of quality. Personally the birkin functions like a paperbag! Sorry not sorry. Even though I'd ended up with a birkin... it's just... for the price.

 

[Lulumelons]

The Chanel 19 is one of the most hideous bags I’ve seen and I don’t know what Chanel was thinking when making it. I think people only want it bc it’s trendy and not bc it’s a nice bag.

People be like no don't get the jumbo single flap it does not keep its shape as well as a jumbo double flap.

.... Proceeds to buy the chanel 19. WTH?!

 

[loves]

But also, when and how did we became conditioned to think that the simple grocery/market bag PICOTIN was worth 2-3k? It's scraps of leather. I hope hermes fans don't get offended because that's what that bag is.

Lindy initially I thought was such a weird bag! I mean... some hermes bag are ugly. Regardless of quality. Personally the birkin functions like a paperbag! Sorry not sorry. Even though I'd ended up with a birkin... it's just... for the price.

I bought my first picotin preloved for 500-600usd, then the prices went up when they introduced the lock. Prices today are crazy. Lindy is my favourite though, no offence taken.

 

[bosslady]

Sounds like you re-purchased your WOC before the price increase. Kudos to you!! Thank you for this post. I had listed for sale my So Black, Chevron, Reissue WOC, and i just took it down. I will not sell because it was a birthday present to myself a couple of years back. I loved it then, however the black hardware made me nervous... I read somewhere online it can peel and chip. My SA told me that she has not seen this kind of feedback. I am keeping my gem... if I decided to repurchase it would be more expensive and hard to find....
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Stunning bag!!!

 

[Purrsey]

People be like no don't get the jumbo single flap it does not keep its shape as well as a jumbo double flap.

.... Proceeds to buy the chanel 19. WTH?!

Lol!!!