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Hermès slapped with class action lawsuit over Birkin sales practices, which force customers to buy other goods before they're offered the celeb-loved handbags
Daily Mail ^ | March 20, 2024 | Mackenzie Tatananni

Posted on 03/20/2024 12:16:16 PM PDT by Cecily

Luxury designer Hermès has been hit with a class action lawsuit, with plaintiffs claiming they were forced to spend thousands on other goods like scarves and homewares before they could buy a coveted Birkin.

Two plaintiffs from California filed suit against the retailer Tuesday after being urged to 'support the business' by buying ancillary products including shoes, scarves, belts, jewelry and home goods.

The pursuit of a Birkin is an arduous one. Due to high demand and the painstaking effort needed to craft the leather handbags, they are difficult to produce and expensive to buy.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: 1stworldproblems; firstworldproblems; hermes
Do they even tell you how much other overpriced stuff you need buy before they will deign to sell you this handbag?
1 posted on 03/20/2024 12:16:16 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily

The world is over The world is over


2 posted on 03/20/2024 12:19:29 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Cecily

To echo the Lefty position on Interwebs censorship, it’s their products and they have the right to sell it any way they choose.

Make Lefties live up to their own book of rules.


3 posted on 03/20/2024 12:21:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Cecily

This has become de rigueur in the “luxury” markets.


4 posted on 03/20/2024 12:24:11 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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To: Cecily

“first world problems”


5 posted on 03/20/2024 12:25:11 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Odessa doink?)
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To: crosdaddy

That’s the problem:

Too much ‘luxury’.

We must reign it in and eventually kill it, so that only the truly elite can enjoy it.........................


6 posted on 03/20/2024 12:29:28 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Cecily

Is this a female product?


7 posted on 03/20/2024 12:56:20 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Cecily

Good idea. let’s all sue the airlines because they don’t give access to their lounges. They force you to spend a ton on tickets or fly a million miles before you can get in.


8 posted on 03/20/2024 1:00:18 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: CENT

Ferrari does the same thing if you want one of their limited production models


9 posted on 03/20/2024 1:16:35 PM PDT by BansheeBill
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To: ansel12

I worked with a trans who had one, so no, men buy them too.


10 posted on 03/20/2024 1:29:25 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: Cecily

Why not simply shoplift the item? Maybe send a black in to do it for you.


11 posted on 03/20/2024 2:24:04 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: ansel12

No, Hermes is an STD that you get if you sleep around with ho’s.


12 posted on 03/20/2024 2:25:17 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Responsibility2nd

HA! Oprah was in Hermes in Paris shopping, no one knew who she was.
They told her she could not afford the merchandise. Thought she was an African immigrant.
She was butt hurt to be sure.


13 posted on 03/20/2024 2:57:10 PM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: Cecily

I bought a good book today and tonight I’m tuning this stupid world out for several hours. This is a reprobate society now. Stupid and without purpose.


14 posted on 03/20/2024 2:58:04 PM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: BansheeBill

And Porsche does for the GT3RS and the like.


15 posted on 03/20/2024 3:06:20 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: kiryandil

Your post is the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. First world problems indeed!


16 posted on 03/20/2024 6:03:04 PM PDT by Bernard (“God’s cruelest punishment is to let you reap what you sow.”)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Aw, what a hardship. Maybe Prince Harry and Taylor Swift could host a telethon.

17 posted on 03/21/2024 7:17:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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