The Birkin Bombshell
I am a lover of ze fasshon and Lord knows, I have made my share of rather frivolous purchases in my time, but I will never for the life of me understand why anyone would drop $6500 on a handbag. Thus has been my befuddlement at the whole Hermes Birkin Bag phenomenon.
This book is about to blow the lid off Birkin’s dirty little secret. To cut to the chase: they’ve been running game y’all!
As anyone who’s ever watched an episode of Sex and the City would know, Birkin bags supposedly have a two-year waiting list. Some people say, there’s a waiting list for the waiting list. Well, I don’t find this exposé particularly shocking, but apparently, that is all bollocks. Michael Tonello, the author of the book, spent years traveling the globe buying the bags and reselling them on eBay. Not surprisingly, if you’re the right person with the right amount of money, the waiting list goes away. They just play with the illusion of exclusivity by limiting supply. It’s bait, basically. If you spend enough coin in an Hermes shop, a ‘wait-listed’ Birkin will magically become available.
Tonello’s game was up when Hermes cancelled a custom order he’d placed. He was quoted in Macleans magazine as saying; ‘After buying hundreds of them, I realize they don’t change anyone’s lives…’ Yeah, no shit Sherlock. It’s a handbag.
It just goes to show how caught up in the hype people can get. Just because [insert random die hard follower of fashion celebrity here] is carrying one, people are willing to wait for two years to get it. Some people have paid up to $200,000. More logical people could get quite a nice one-bedroom apartment for that. I think I just officially turned into my mother.
I don’t know where to start
So, I’m surfing the wonderful world of the interweb the other day, as I do when I stumbled across this ad and immediately felt the need to bitch slap a whole lot of people.
Buy one blackberry and get four more free? Why in the fuck would I want to do that? So my whole family can look like assholes too? Give me strength!
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