If you love horses or Pegasus, you will always find something wonderful at Hermes to buy, so true. My father was a Horse too (zodique wise not actual - otherwise I guess I'd be a centaur
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What happens if you like Hermes bags but not other Hermes items?
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If you love horses or Pegasus, you will always find something wonderful at Hermes to buy, so true. My father was a Horse too (zodique wise not actual - otherwise I guess I'd be a centaur
).
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This topic has been discussed before, but sometimes conditions are different (we are now in a post-Covid lockdown era) and inventory and what's desirable changes too. Sometimes it's not bad to have a fresh investigation.
I would also like to remind everyone of our GCG #1:
This topic has been discussed before, but sometimes conditions are different (we are now in a post-Covid lockdown era) and inventory and what's desirable changes too. Sometimes it's not bad to have a fresh investigation.
I would also like to remind everyone of our GCG #1:
- Be respectful towards other forum members. Be kind! We aim to provide a friendly, supportive and fun community for our members. Personal attacks on other members will not be tolerated. Try and resolve a dispute with another member respectfully via direct message or optionally, report an offending post to a moderator using the report function. Do not take your complaint to the public forums.
I’m not sure if you’re asking how to get a QB bag without much prespending, since you first say you like Birkin and Kelly but after you state you don’t like them, although they are classic models.
Anyway, I’m not fond of everything Hermes, I don’t like their shoes and their RTW doesn’t meet my style.I do like some SLG but there are other cheaper alternatives out there, that are also more useful to me.
I have a list of things I’d like to get in the next months and it varies from bracelets to silks, but these are items I’ve liked for years and now I feel comfortable buying. No way I’m buying something I don’t like just to please my boutique or to get a bag.
If I need something and H doesn’t offer it, or I find someone else is doing a better alternative, I’m buying it there instead.
Anyway, I’m not fond of everything Hermes, I don’t like their shoes and their RTW doesn’t meet my style.I do like some SLG but there are other cheaper alternatives out there, that are also more useful to me.
I have a list of things I’d like to get in the next months and it varies from bracelets to silks, but these are items I’ve liked for years and now I feel comfortable buying. No way I’m buying something I don’t like just to please my boutique or to get a bag.
If I need something and H doesn’t offer it, or I find someone else is doing a better alternative, I’m buying it there instead.
Oooh I forgot to mention: Hermes isn’t only for bags or accessories.If you love horses or Pegasus, you will always find something wonderful at Hermes to buy, so true. My father was a Horse too (zodique wise not actual - otherwise I guess I'd be a centaur
Equestrians can buy saddles and saddle pads along with other equipment from them for horses. My friend thinks their saddles are very comfy.
And their real horse-bits make good belt buckles, bag handles (with scarves and leather straps) even jewellery.
This I agree with. The horse gear is really good, including the clothes. The saddles are amazing and last forever.
Everything H makes can't possibly be to one's taste, but with very few exceptions it's all extremely well made.
To answer the thread title, if you only like the bags, then only buy the bags!
For a lot of us who have been interested in Hermès items for a while the subject of getting offered bags in return for buying other expensive items has been discussed endlessly , but I can understand your interest …it’s quite bizarre .
I’m not a huge bag enthusiast, but through shopping for other stuff in Hermès over many years ( scarves, silver jewellery , etc) eventually persuaded myself I needed a Kelly . As I love the types of leather from 20 yrs ago ,I never considered buying in store . , so most were bought resale .
Now the only one I really still like is a simple black Kelly 32 in Box leather .
I’m current, in a period of scarf obsession and am not into leather bags , been carrying a nylon rucksack for most of the Summer because I’m lazy .
I think a lot depends on which ‘tribe’ one identifies with: I’ve never identified with glam, celebrity , immaculate makeup and am more of a mimalist wannabe !
I couldn’t agree more. I found the new post fresh and I enjoy hearing different perspectives. Having shopped in Hermes boutiques all over the world it’s fun to hear how others perceive this brand.
Saddling one SA on a customer, in my opinion, is a rather short sighted company policy. It discourages their spending in other stores, cities, states or abroad.
I agree , in the ever evolving customer demographic I like fresh opinions .
I don’t get this idea of being saddled with one SA though, I often shop with friends and we know many of the London SA s , and take whoever is free, I was once asked which was my preferred store and I said all of them .
As someone who apparently has 6 Hermès profiles, i agree
Whichever SA always says "er... which one of these xxx is you"? "and I say" take your pic".
Only six profiles ??
As someone who apparently has 6 Hermès profiles, i agree
Whichever SA always says "er... which one of these xxx is you"? "and I say" take your pic".
Thanks for all your answers.
Just to clarify: I didn't mean to sound "rude". I know that this might be seen as an Hermes fans' place and saying I don't like something from Hermes could sound a bit like trolling, but it wasn't my intention at all, and I took it as a space where anyone can talk about Hermes in general more than a place where we can only celebrate Hermes.
I didn't know anything about Hermes before I randomly found this forum and some videos and comments about influencers online, so I was just curious about the subject. I didn't mean to offend anyone even if I might have said that some items are "ugly" in another thread, but it wasn't referred to anyone's in particular and not even to an item in particular. Besides, it's just my opinion and if you want to say that a brand that I like or I bag that I have or even about myself that it/she's ugly, I'm totally fine with it.
I was asking this because I noticed it's not that easy to find "common" people (average high fashion brand consumers) who buy, for instance, Versace plates or Gucci cups, or even sandals or bags they are not really into. Maybe someone does that, maybe the most crazy Gucci fan buys the Gucci pillow for 1k, or the extremely rich celebrity buys it, but the majority of people does not and just buys the bag or the coat for 2k or so. While I see many people online who buy Hermes pillows and plates... for sure they don't hate them, but would the majority of them buy those items if there was no policy about the "dream bags"? They probably wouldn't. That was my point.
And I was wondering how some people might feel about having to do that to get their bag.
It's not a crime if you like only Birkin or Kellys and not the Hermes pillow, I mean, it is normal. And I'm not even saying that the pillow is unlikeable. But it's an expensive pillow which for someone might be an unnecessary expense.
However, I think it's a successful strategy: so successful that many brands are copying it, more or less.
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I vividly remember that 10 years ago we used to buy LV speedys for our friends for every 18th birthday present that we had to do. The speedy cost around 400€, there were 20 of us, each one put 20€ and we went to LV and buy the speedy, and even if it was one of the most popular bags at the time, they always had it in the boutique. Gucci and LV (At least where I lived) had all the items, you went there and you got the best service and the best selection that you could ever have anywhere else.
Now I know that some of the most popular LV bags are impossible to find, and this makes people desire them more and not hesitate to buy when they find one. There are waiting lists at LV also. (I don't know about other brands)
One of my close friends recently waited a year to get a bag from LV (the one with the double pochette) and she had to go to Rome to get a classic LV monogram bracelet, and wasn't even treated that nicely. They even refused to add an hole to a belt that she had bought.
Even Chanel, I'm told, is proposing bags to specific clients...
The Hermes strategy, and here I'm talking about being exclusive and elusive, is, for sure, a successful one nowadays.
More than the strategy of making a client happy offering him all the selection and the best and fastest service to have the specific item that he wants.
But I'm open to other points of view! We're here to discuss about something, everyone might agree or disagree and I'm more than happy to read different opinions.
Just to clarify: I didn't mean to sound "rude". I know that this might be seen as an Hermes fans' place and saying I don't like something from Hermes could sound a bit like trolling, but it wasn't my intention at all, and I took it as a space where anyone can talk about Hermes in general more than a place where we can only celebrate Hermes.
I didn't know anything about Hermes before I randomly found this forum and some videos and comments about influencers online, so I was just curious about the subject. I didn't mean to offend anyone even if I might have said that some items are "ugly" in another thread, but it wasn't referred to anyone's in particular and not even to an item in particular. Besides, it's just my opinion and if you want to say that a brand that I like or I bag that I have or even about myself that it/she's ugly, I'm totally fine with it.
I was asking this because I noticed it's not that easy to find "common" people (average high fashion brand consumers) who buy, for instance, Versace plates or Gucci cups, or even sandals or bags they are not really into. Maybe someone does that, maybe the most crazy Gucci fan buys the Gucci pillow for 1k, or the extremely rich celebrity buys it, but the majority of people does not and just buys the bag or the coat for 2k or so. While I see many people online who buy Hermes pillows and plates... for sure they don't hate them, but would the majority of them buy those items if there was no policy about the "dream bags"? They probably wouldn't. That was my point.
And I was wondering how some people might feel about having to do that to get their bag.
It's not a crime if you like only Birkin or Kellys and not the Hermes pillow, I mean, it is normal. And I'm not even saying that the pillow is unlikeable. But it's an expensive pillow which for someone might be an unnecessary expense.
However, I think it's a successful strategy: so successful that many brands are copying it, more or less.
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I vividly remember that 10 years ago we used to buy LV speedys for our friends for every 18th birthday present that we had to do. The speedy cost around 400€, there were 20 of us, each one put 20€ and we went to LV and buy the speedy, and even if it was one of the most popular bags at the time, they always had it in the boutique. Gucci and LV (At least where I lived) had all the items, you went there and you got the best service and the best selection that you could ever have anywhere else.
Now I know that some of the most popular LV bags are impossible to find, and this makes people desire them more and not hesitate to buy when they find one. There are waiting lists at LV also. (I don't know about other brands)
One of my close friends recently waited a year to get a bag from LV (the one with the double pochette) and she had to go to Rome to get a classic LV monogram bracelet, and wasn't even treated that nicely. They even refused to add an hole to a belt that she had bought.
Even Chanel, I'm told, is proposing bags to specific clients...
The Hermes strategy, and here I'm talking about being exclusive and elusive, is, for sure, a successful one nowadays.
More than the strategy of making a client happy offering him all the selection and the best and fastest service to have the specific item that he wants.
But I'm open to other points of view! We're here to discuss about something, everyone might agree or disagree and I'm more than happy to read different opinions.
Yes I like other Hermes items and bags other than their quota bags. I don't like everything Hermes makes.
I DID NOT and WILL NOT purchase anything I don't like or will not wear/use just to get a bag. I think people will do/should do whatever works for them.
Ah well, no sweat.
Social media influencers are a tad different from forum mates here. You will find all walks of society here - from those working hard to save for their dream bag to those who can easily buy out an entire store.
Forum mates are just here to discuss and admire each other’s bags. Again a range of them from hardcore loyal fiends to those who just browse to look around or research the bags.
Professional influencers are a different breed - they have to sell an image to their followers and make money out of it. The more exclusive the bigger the hype. Controversy sells content. Sometimes, I think that some influencers want to drag the unknowing crowd into the same misery as them with all the pre-spend marketed as the only way type of method.
Since I remembered, Chanel has always differentiated between clientele in categories I can only think of: super duper VICs; super VICs; the VIC with the minimum required spend and; then the public. Now they will deploy the same game as Hermes aka ‘you can’t just spend on our bags, you need to buy other things‘.
Bad for Chanel is that….they are far more limited than what Hermes can offer. Also, if you read my replies to others - Hermes deal with outfitting Equestrians and even their horses. A saddle cost an upwards of 12k USD, last I remembered from eons ago.
Who knows if saddles and even equestrian equipment may even be counted towards a quota bag…but thats an expensive hobby if you can buy their dressage items and Hermes know it.
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I am not a huge Hermes collector, but I got a Kelly 32 in Rouge with gold hardware and sent it off to the spa. I love it and I bought it on Ebay with an authenticity guarentee. I refuse to play games w/Hermes. I want what I want when I want it.