I love reading your posts.

I am a nyc girl so I used to go to the Bal outlet at Woodbury and they never had the moto line there. Most premier designers either have stuff made for their outlets like
Gucci or they get the weird stuff that no one wants. Coach is the only brand I know of that take their best selling bags and remove them mid-season to the outlet.
I too, bought tons of Kristins. I had sages, wovens, every color you could think of. But when they killed the line, I got angry and started to give them away to friends. (I don't resell my bags, I give them away when I am done with them). I now don't have any Kristins. Same with Phoebe. I loved it when it came out, bought a bunch of colors and when they started selling them dirt cheap at the outlets, I gave all of mine away.
I think all but a few of the Vevers bags will end up at the outlet. They may try to keep them back until after the semi-annual sale or they may try to quietly sell them through other liquidation points like saks off fifth instead of the outlets. But they made too many of them and no one wants them at full price and they will end up somewhere.
As for the Dakotahs, well I bought them at 25% off (except for the teal which I paid full price for) and I will be ok if they end up at the outlets. I think the ones with the tons of fringe that close with a turnlock will definitely end up at the outlet. I have not seen even ONE reveal of that style here and I dont think it is selling. If the Vevers stuff all ends up at the outlets at the same pace other things end up at the outlets then this new strategy will be dead.
As for the hype of "sell outs" don't believe it. Net a porter gets very few of anything and is basically a marketing ploy for
Hey, thanks for reading my sagas, lol!

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That's cool! You are around all the good stuff!! I haven't been to NYC in a while, but I was invited to RK by someone that used to work at a store when he had them open at some of the malls, and I never went. I have to find out if I'm still invited, lol. That's also a brand I got into and bought a lot of bags while I was turned off by Coach. Even with RK, I always bought on discount other than one bag, I think....my first bag, which I just walked in the store and bought a few years back. Then I got the bug, but they always did a much better job of welcoming their customers and making you feel like your purchase was worth something. I spent a while talking about the "Coach effect" too, lol. I know that resale is not great and that most people have no clue who RK is, but I like the bags a lot, and I don't buy them with resale in mind. Don't get me wrong... I do like to know I'm buying something that's not worth zero, but if I love it enough, and it's the right price for me (that's the real key issue for me), I'll buy it...and I did! I still miss going in that store at the mall!
I still find a lot I would like to have in other brands right now, but I completely understand that once you get enough of something, you want to move forward with something else! I completely agree with you about NAP. Yes, if you get in a size or two each, then sell out is very likely!

You probably never heard of Tylie Malibu...it's a Cali brand, and I have bought some of those bags over the years. Well, the company went bankrupt recently and then the owner started a new clothing company called Stillwater. Some of those clothes sell out because they don't have much stock, but it looks like they are popular on the website at times if you don't know any better. This is exactly what I see with Coach, and yes, the higher volume items will end up on sale at some point somewhere....for sure the dept stores. I was told they have been doing test markets in NYC for a while before they rolled out this plan, and it was working fabulously, so they went with it, but again, that's a totally different market than even my area too! It comes down to how little higher end stuff can you sell to make enough profit vs volume at blowout prices.
Anyway, don't worry about it... If you love Coach, just buy it if it's what you want at a price you can live with! There's absolutely nothing wrong with that! I might be Negative Nancy ATM with the company, but I am exactly the same way. I'm just trying to hold firm to my one retail price bag rule, but part of that is also because there are other brands I want to buy, and I can get those on sale, kwim??