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#22,426
Ha! My outlet manager straight up turned me down till the holidays are over saying she wasn't allowed to do found orders! I hate my outlet store and their stupid rules/BS why they can't do found orders for me. Consider yourself lucky if you are allowed to do them at the outlet you go to. All outlets are NOT the same therefore no I cannot get the same discount as others who are getting them even if I make the time to drive 35 min to the outlet.
 
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barskin said:
I went to my local boutique (Copley Place, Boston) for the extra 20% off sale items sale and pulled the trigger on my second Serra. I am such a glutton. I should have been satisfied my brown Serra, but, noooo, I was dying for the ink on, too. The Serra is my favorite Coach...ever.
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Congrats! I fell in like with the Serra when I saw it at the retail store last week. It is so well made. Enjoy your beauties. You have the two colors
That I like, especially because they have exotic details.
 
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barskin said:
I went to my local boutique (Copley Place, Boston) for the extra 20% off sale items sale and pulled the trigger on my second Serra. I am such a glutton. I should have been satisfied my brown Serra, but, noooo, I was dying for the ink on, too. The Serra is my favorite Coach...ever.
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I love the look of the Serra so much. I have to keep reminding myself that I have no real practical need for it at this point in my life.
 
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pasdedeux1 said:
That's exactly why you aren't willing to pay more for the bags, though - because you can get them for less. If Coach hadn't trained you to expect 70% discounts (as things were in the days when they were fairly priced, long-lasting pieces) and you say you wouldn't be a customer at full price, well - that's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

They would very much like to be an accessible luxury brand, because luxury is where the margins are. Unfortunately they're in the position of having to untrain a customer base they trained to expect discounts and will have to decide whether they want that customer or the higher $ one. Be interesting to see what the Asian market expansion looks like.

I'm not much interested in crawling through the outlets trying to find things or waiting for things to pop up on FOS. Not enough time on my hands for that.
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This is the quintessential dilemma for any coach fan. Coach's conflict between WANTING to become a full priced luxury brand and NEEDING to cut prices to continue to sell overproduced merchandise, has been going on since I joined this forum almost 13 years ago.

Outlet buyers love the thrill of the hunt. They look for bags that are at the full-price store, and jump through hurdles to get them at the outlet prices. Charge holds, found orders, returning fp bags to outlets to try to buy them at outlet prices, coupons, employee discounts. EVERYTHING has been tried, and has worked.
The outlet shoppers gleefully post their bargains on TPF.

But, a month later, the bag is available in large quantities at the outlet price, and little work is needed. Just log into FOS and pay.

Meanwhile, those that buy FP bags are looking at next season's styles. Those styles stay in the stores for a couple of months tops, and then trickle into the outlets and the cycle repeats.

Those FP bags were never worth FP.

A few people paid overinflated prices to get early and good seats to the show. I used to be one of those few people years ago. But as bags went to outlet earlier and earlier, sometimes after only a month, I grew tired of the game. I only pay outlet prices now. The outlet price is the real price. It is the price that the vast majority of Coach FP bags will end up selling for.

I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said MANY times before on this forum. I'm just summarizing for those that may have missed the last 13 years of debate :biggrin:
 
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ltbag said:
This is the quintessential dilemma for any coach fan. Coach's conflict between WANTING to become a full priced luxury brand and NEEDING to cut prices to continue to sell overproduced merchandise, has been going on since I joined this forum almost 13 years ago.

Outlet buyers love the thrill of the hunt. They look for bags that are at the full-price store, and jump through hurdles to get them at the outlet prices. Charge holds, found orders, returning fp bags to outlets to try to buy them at outlet prices, coupons, employee discounts. EVERYTHING has been tried, and has worked.
The outlet shoppers gleefully post their bargains on TPF.

But, a month later, the bag is available in large quantities at the outlet price, and little work is needed. Just log into FOS and pay.

Meanwhile, those that buy FP bags are looking at next season's styles. Those styles stay in the stores for a couple of months tops, and then trickle into the outlets and the cycle repeats.

Those FP bags were never worth FP.

A few people paid overinflated prices to get early and good seats to the show. I used to be one of those few people years ago. But as bags went to outlet earlier and earlier, sometimes after only a month, I grew tired of the game. I only pay outlet prices now. The outlet price is the real price. It is the price that the vast majority of Coach FP bags will end up selling for.

I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said MANY times before on this forum. I'm just summarizing for those that may have missed the last 13 years of debate :biggrin:
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I agree with what you have said, but I think the two pieces missing are that 1) the discounts vary for what a person can get for outlet pricing depending on a person's location to an outlet and their ability to do found orders. FOS has decent discounts but sometimes they aren't any more than the SAS sale at the boutiques and Coach online.

2) The reason many buy early and at higher prices is for a good color selection if that could be impacted and also to ensure a nicely wrapped bag that hasn't been tossed around and beaten up. You can buy at the PCE and SAS sales before it goes to outlet and have a better chance. I realize some FOS bags come nicely wrapped but many of them do not.
 
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Saw this at Macy's and had to have it. Could have saved another 20% from Coach but online was out of stock and my mall store didn't have it. Not sure how I'm going to use it, but I had to have those shiny red slippers!

I haven't bag shopped in a long time, other than online FOS. Now I'm in trouble after seeing the newer bags in the store. I'm in love with Parker, Cassie, Dreamer Shoulder, Alexa Crossbody and more.

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I originally went to the outlet looking for the mouse bag charm (the leather and shearling one). They didn’t have it. They said they couldn’t order it, because there aren’t any in stock in the warehouse. Oh well. I got the Sagittarius coin case instead. I am using it to hold my lip balm and my little round mirror. It’s the perfect size for that. Looks cute hanging on my bag!
 

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