";s:4:"text";s:3199:" The strategy was really to check each store in Paris area and ask each sales associate directly on whether I could purchase a Birkin. These accommodations, as well as Hermès not wanting to rush earlier shoppers while they consider their options, are likely the reason the FSH boutique can’t guarantee set appointment times at the beginning of the day. )That requires tourists use a data-enambled smart phone quite a bit, as well as the ability to receive text messages, which can be costly for handbag hopefuls who have traveled to Paris from a different cell market. That means if you have a Birkin in your hands and you want to consider a Kelly that’s also available, the Birkin has to go back to the stock room to potentially be snapped up by someone in another appointment.Amanda Mull is a 25-year-old writer, blogger, and gal-about-town from Atlanta, Georgia.
If you’re late for your final appointment time, the store will try to accommodate you, but you may have to wait a little longer if your SA has already moved on to another shopper.
)Also, it’s worth noting, there are several other Paris Hermès stores where procedures for shopping and buying bags are a little more normal. This included everything from the way a person would get on in a particular color and leather to what particular size or hardware types are used at a given period of time. You’re drinking champagne and it’s time to spend some money. At the FSH Hermès boutique, snagging a Birkin or Kelly starts with the same first step as acquiring almost anything that’s highly sought and available from limited sources: you get in line.
By the time it was 10:20, I stepped out of line to check out the queue and there were a good 40 people behind me. I sent my lovely fiancée to the side door.
When it comes to shopping at the Hermès global flagship store on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, though, demand from international tourists hoping to score bags when visiting the city has so far outpaced the boutique’s ability to serve customers in an appropriately luxe way has resulted in a switch to a somewhat complicated and time-consuming appointment system that can take up a full day of a traveler’s stay in Paris, if not more.We’ll leave you with some helpful tips offered up by Pocketbook Pup, an Hermès client who has shopped successfully at the FSH boutique a number of times:You might think the term “appointment” implies a fixed time both parties have agreed upon in advance, but in the FSH boutique’s system, your allotted time will jump around throughout the day and you have to be ready to report back to the store fairly quickly. In Birkins, as in life, your attitude counts. Buying a bag at a reputable auction house can bring about a bargain.