Hermes Shoppers - Explain the purchase process for me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I thought my husband might be getting me a Birkin as a push present…then I read the purse forum. Sigh. There’s no way he would go through this process for a bag for me!!!

This comment wins as most gross of the thread. That term alone makes me stabby.

I'm carrying his child and we make more money than we can spend. We do big things like this for each other once every 5 years. I'd love to hear your suggestions on how else to waste $20,000. At least the Birkin is an investment and will hold its value!

Ugh. How about giving it to a charity? Completely grotesque.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought my husband might be getting me a Birkin as a push present…then I read the purse forum. Sigh. There’s no way he would go through this process for a bag for me!!!

This comment wins as most gross of the thread. That term alone makes me stabby.

I'm carrying his child and we make more money than we can spend. We do big things like this for each other once every 5 years. I'd love to hear your suggestions on how else to waste $20,000. At least the Birkin is an investment and will hold its value!

DP. Sweetie, you don't even understand why we are so repulsed by what you said. It has nothing to do about the purse.

You make me very sad. And now you're going to have a child who will look to you for how to think and act ... I wish there were an emoji for weeping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought my husband might be getting me a Birkin as a push present…then I read the purse forum. Sigh. There’s no way he would go through this process for a bag for me!!!

This comment wins as most gross of the thread. That term alone makes me stabby.

I'm carrying his child and we make more money than we can spend. We do big things like this for each other once every 5 years. I'd love to hear your suggestions on how else to waste $20,000. At least the Birkin is an investment and will hold its value!

Ugh. How about giving it to a charity? Completely grotesque.

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I wonder how many abortions she could fairy godmother for that amount - or how many IUDs she could buy for poor women in underserved states. I wonder how many shelves she could fill at a food shelf, and with the good stuff that those families never get. I wonder how many trees she and her husband could plant in heat island cities, or if they could fill the shelves of a crappy school library. I wonder how many music lessons could be bought for 20K. I wonder what that 20K would do if it were “wasted” on preserving genetic diversity in seeds at Seed Savers or Southern Exposure or Native Seeds, or funding free community gardens. How many hours of therapy could you buy for someone who needs it but can’t afford it. I wonder how much plastic that 20K could remove from the Anacostia if it were donated to Anacostia Riverkeeper. You could probably keep a small town, independently owned newspaper in business.

I mean, it’s your money. I’m sure you give amply to charity. It’s just that there is something more than faintly repulsive about this song and dance for a purse, to say nothing of spending twenty. thousand. dollars on a purse. It’s up there in sheer stupidity with 50K watches. It is the “let them eat cake”-iest object. Enjoy your new purse.

[Anonymous]

Hmmm, 200 abortions or a Birkin. You have really presented us with a dilemna here. Decisions, decisions.

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[Anonymous]

I want to get a good fake one. Any suggestions? How expensive would it be?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmmm, 200 abortions or a Birkin. You have really presented us with a dilemna here. Decisions, decisions.

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I hope you are able to buy enough china to get the purse you want so you feel the approval you clearly yearn for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve spent far too much time today watching this video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=slLU_qtgKKg .

I will admit I am not familiar with luxury shopping but am I understanding it correctly that one must have a personal shopper for these items. The bags are extremely limited for the Kelly and Birkin and anyone could walk in and get one or you could have purchased 100k with Hermes and not receive anything?

This is far above my price bracket but I cannot turn away and I’m intrigued now. Do you try multiple Hermes shops in hopes of procuring a bag? What is your experience?

I just watched more of this than I should have and what tf did I just see.

[Anonymous]

I guess now I know that most people with these bags went through an expensive and sort of desperate purchase process. Seeing someone work one would let me know that we are different in more ways than wealth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess now I know that most people with these bags went through an expensive and sort of desperate purchase process. Seeing someone work one would let me know that we are different in more ways than wealth.

For real. This is pretty sickening. I'm all for people using the money they earned (or married) as they want, but this is a purse. A purse It is not one of kind artwork, a haute couture made just for you, a special experience, it doesn't even have a special purpose. Dumb beyond words

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess now I know that most people with these bags went through an expensive and sort of desperate purchase process. Seeing someone work one would let me know that we are different in more ways than wealth.

For real. This is pretty sickening. I'm all for people using the money they earned (or married) as they want, but this is a purse. A purse It is not one of kind artwork, a haute couture made just for you, a special experience, it doesn't even have a special purpose. Dumb beyond words

Beyond the money...the fawning over and "developing a relationship" with some 20something new grad sales associate in order for them to allow you to spend a ridiculous amount of money on an equal ridiculous purse; one must have zero dignity to engage in this

[Anonymous]

DP. Sweetie, you don't even understand why we are so repulsed by what you said. It has nothing to do about the purse.

You make me very sad. And now you're going to have a child who will look to you for how to think and act ... I wish there were an emoji for weeping.

I can’t get over how gratuitously mean this is. You might think you were being flip and funny, but the person you targeted has feelings - and is pregnant. Would you EVER say that to someone in person? If not, maybe you shouldn’t put it on the internet and should think twice before you hit submit. Ironically, your kids also look to you for how to think and act, and rudely attacking others is not a great example.

[Anonymous]

Mention of push presents really brings out the claws around here. I’m surprised, but not shocked.

And if you wanna see some really mean comments, go check out the other active Hermes thread right now. Yikes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess now I know that most people with these bags went through an expensive and sort of desperate purchase process. Seeing someone work one would let me know that we are different in more ways than wealth.

For real. This is pretty sickening. I'm all for people using the money they earned (or married) as they want, but this is a purse. A purse It is not one of kind artwork, a haute couture made just for you, a special experience, it doesn't even have a special purpose. Dumb beyond words

Beyond the money...the fawning over and "developing a relationship" with some 20something new grad sales associate in order for them to allow you to spend a ridiculous amount of money on an equal ridiculous purse; one must have zero dignity to engage in this

I dunno, all kinds of otherwise successful men visit a dominatrix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mention of push presents really brings out the claws around here. I’m surprised, but not shocked.

And if you wanna see some really mean comments, go check out the other active Hermes thread right now. Yikes.

I haven’t commented on that but the concept of “push presents” is objectively gross.

[Anonymous]

No, it’s *subjectively* gross to *you*. And that’s just fine. You can elect simply not to get one.

I don’t think Birkin Push Present lady did herself any favors bragging about spending $20k on hers, but plenty of women, myself included love a gift to commemorate the birth of a child and wear those items happily.