Your new Coach: a mini-reveal thread!

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#20,941
ShoeSquirrel said:
I really don’t understand why they insist on making it so hard for us to give them our money. And I have no clue what their thinking is on keeping over 100 of a highly sought after bag sitting in their warehouse for 2 years. It makes no sense to me. None.
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For perspective, I don't think that this issue is exclusively Coach's fault. From what I've gathered, inventory on select, sought-after retail bags does sell out upon initial release in the USA.

What you're seeing now (an influx of an alleged sold out style" in Coach's warehouse is due to their international stores eventually shipping their unsold retail inventory back to Coach's main warehouse in the USA, which is then sent off to outlet stores / Factory online to be sold at a discount.

Coach doesn't move retail inventory as quick as it does in the US (with the exception of Canada and some countries in Asia). Their stores do have a sale schedule, but it usually varies from Coach sale cycle in the USA. From the way inventory operates, it seems that Coach likely recalls all unsold retail inventory back to the USA twice a year. The unsold retail inventory would be anywhere from the past year to the past 6 months.

When Coach had shockingly sold the very first Disney x Coach 1941 retail collection for sale in Factory stores and Factory online, some of the pieces I was shipped had the tags from an store in Asia on them (I think the retail price was in Yen), which further supports my theory that these "surprise" inventory drops come from Coach international.
 
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#20,942
holiday123 said:
I hear that.
Seriously though wth is Coach doing with a warehouse full of deletes that are only available via a found order? I think this 1941 red I originally bought and returned around 2017....so they just have stuff laying around that they aren't putting any effort into selling? I don't get it. :confused1:
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Friend just recd her butterscotch rogue via found. Lol
 
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#20,943
MonsieurMode said:
For perspective, I don't think that this issue is exclusively Coach's fault. From what I've gathered, inventory on select, sought-after retail bags does sell out upon initial release in the USA.

What you're seeing now (an influx of an alleged sold out style" in Coach's warehouse is due to their international stores eventually shipping their unsold retail inventory back to Coach's main warehouse in the USA, which is then sent off to outlet stores / Factory online to be sold at a discount.

Coach doesn't move retail inventory as quick as it does in the US (with the exception of Canada and some countries in Asia). Their stores do have a sale schedule, but it usually varies from Coach sale cycle in the USA. From the way inventory operates, it seems that Coach likely recalls all unsold retail inventory back to the USA twice a year. The unsold retail inventory would be anywhere from the past year to the past 6 months.

When Coach had shockingly sold the very first Disney x Coach 1941 retail collection for sale in Factory stores and Factory online, some of the pieces I was shipped had the tags from an store in Asia on them (I think the retail price was in Yen), which further supports my theory that these "surprise" inventory drops come from Coach international.
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This makes more sense then. But why are they still holding them at the warehouse instead of shipping them out to stores or FOS? The first person to get one via found order was over a month ago. Are they possibly waiting on more to be shipped back?
 
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#20,945
LVforValentine said:
This! I shouldn't have to beg to pay a company for a product. LV is doing similar practices over their canvas items and it's also pushed me away from them as a brand. Your sole purpose as a company is to sell and make a profit, not sit on items for eternity and laugh at the customers complaining they can't get their hands on things they want.
I'm wondering if maybe they're holding onto certain items to maybe try doing a re-release down the road, but that would still be silly to hold up warehouse space. In the 50+ coach items I've purchased 3 of them have actually sold out and never been seen again, the rest have all shown up at a later SAS or outlet.

On a side note could someone please share the code for the 1941 red rogue?
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Style F38124. It comes up as full price in their system but the assistant manager at my outlet gladly applied the 70% off that’s currently going on.
 
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#20,946
LVforValentine said:
This! I shouldn't have to beg to pay a company for a product. LV is doing similar practices over their canvas items and it's also pushed me away from them as a brand. Your sole purpose as a company is to sell and make a profit, not sit on items for eternity and laugh at the customers complaining they can't get their hands on things they want.
I'm wondering if maybe they're holding onto certain items to maybe try doing a re-release down the road, but that would still be silly to hold up warehouse space. In the 50+ coach items I've purchased 3 of them have actually sold out and never been seen again, the rest have all shown up at a later SAS or outlet.

On a side note could someone please share the code for the 1941 red rogue?
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It's F38124 BPF8Q
 
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Does all outlet do found orders?
Last tine I went to outlet store, SA did found order for me, but when I went back because I forgot to order one more, store manager came over and told her she can’t do found order for items in JAX. (Items not in stores can’t have outlet pricing applied or something)
 
#20,950
wintotty said:
Does all outlet do found orders?
Last tine I went to outlet store, SA did found order for me, but when I went back because I forgot to order one more, store manager came over and told her she can’t do found order for items in JAX. (Items not in stores can’t have outlet pricing applied or something)
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In theory, they all should. My new outlet didn’t right after they opened but started allowing it about a month later. As long as it’s available with an “F” style number, they can do it, but I’ve heard of some stores saying they don’t. I don’t know if that’s because they don’t want to do it or they don’t know how.
 
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#20,951
wintotty said:
Does all outlet do found orders?
Last tine I went to outlet store, SA did found order for me, but when I went back because I forgot to order one more, store manager came over and told her she can’t do found order for items in JAX. (Items not in stores can’t have outlet pricing applied or something)
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If a coach item is in the outlet system it can be done on a found order. And sold at outlet price. Im really not making this stuff up
 
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Are outlet numbers just the regular boutique number with an F in front? Or - are they a
totally different numbers?

And - do some outlets do "Found orders" over the phone? And if they do, which ones?
 
#20,954
ShoeSquirrel said:
In theory, they all should. My new outlet didn’t right after they opened but started allowing it about a month later. As long as it’s available with an “F” style number, they can do it, but I’ve heard of some stores saying they don’t. I don’t know if that’s because they don’t want to do it or they don’t know how.
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Thank you, I gave them “F” numbers, and 1st SA did it for me, but for some reason Store manager decided to intervene while the same SA was in process of ordering more for me later.
 
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