Hi Everyone,
It took me a lot of courage to post here as I'm mostly a lurker on the H forums, I am still trying to learn more about Hermes and my bag hunt and trying to satiate my H-obsession.
However, I want to offer everyone a cup of tea to quell all the tension and the berserk nerves in this thread!
I also wanted to spread some kindness and remind everyone of our reality: we are all IP addresses for the most part, and it's HEALTHY and REASONABLE to be skeptics given the nature of the internet, nature of Hermes obsession and the resulting scams out of it.
It is however not healthy to throw accusatory tones and negative language on either direction, regardless of our skepticism. What we can all do, is to ASK questions, keep asking questions until we satisfy our doubts and skepticism.
Unfortunately, we will always deal with people who have ulterior motives -- i can imagine all re-seller houses have social media staff that are just monitoring and posting here, I can also imagine all fashion houses do the same, and that they employ distasteful tactics to smear their competitors. (remember this, if it were true-
http://observer.com/2010/08/how-snooki-got-her-gucci-the-dirt-on-purses/)
My point is, it's OKAY to be skeptical -- skepticism helps us all. Perhaps let's watch our tone, language, and be more cordial to one another. Put down the pitchforks aimed at ALL DIRECTIONS. I am sure that the TPF community continues to strive for a knowledge-sharing forum for the fashion obsessed like us, and we want to keep it that way. The sooner we get to the bottom of this, the sooner we can all LEARN something from this experience. Let's ask questions in a positive tone, instead of targeting each poster.
Let's remember that some people put more/less effort than others in their details or pay more/less mind than others on the seemingly obvious. Making rash conclusions for someone else is never a great idea. Some people choose to play the H game and build years of spend and patience to get a bag, some DO NOT want to do that. It's a matter of preference... we can't jump because someone's WAYS are not ALIGNED with how we would do things.
The point is we all want to get to a destination, the roads we take and the resources we have all differ, thus our experiences are different. Some want a direct flight, some by road, by land, some get a tour operator to drive them, and some go on their own. But the destination is the same -- an hermes product!! Just because you never got a shipment 2 days later, does not mean it has not happened to someone else. You know?!
Good luck, to all of us. The outcome of this thread will be a lot of learning.
