Don't buy a Hermes rep until you know this...

Most often people write to me about bag quality, how to determine quality, tell good from bad and so on. There really are many quality levels for Birkin, Kelly and other Hermes bags since there are many manufacturers and sellers, especially since each of them will tell you "I have the best quality" regardless of their price. But you know what the biggest problem is? Not that most people can't tell good quality from bad, and not even that sellers most often use photos that aren't even theirs and you're essentially trying to evaluate a bag whose quality will differ from what you receive. But specifically the "help" of other people who for some reason decided they can help everyone and judge all bags around them by quality level, deciding they suddenly have a lot of experience in this field...

I decided to run a crazy experiment!!! A few weeks ago using the help of my friends and some people who wrote to me with questions, with whom we'd already become what you could call "pen pals" haha, we conducted a large scale check of all Hermes rep QC experts on Reddit and the results shocked us, and we also managed to find another "false bottom" in most subs on the topic of Hermes reps, you've definitely never seen anything like this!

The "first bottom." We started systematically sending posts to various subs with dozens of posts and photos asking people to evaluate our "purchases" and do QC. Most often we didn't write the seller's name, sometimes we wrote names of well known sellers to "pass face control," but more on that later. But the most interesting thing is that ABSOLUTELY ALL the bags we asked to evaluate were AUTHENTIC. Some photos were taken by my friends who deal in authentic resale, some I took myself, and a small portion for variety we took from the internet on verified platforms with impeccable reputation. The authenticity of the bags was 100% beyond any doubt.

How do you think people responded? About 60-65% wrote that the bags were magnificent, and what did you expect to hear about authentic bags? Definitely not what the other people wrote haha. The remaining 30-35% always found "problems," the stamp, the stitching, the hardware, the leather, something was always wrong. Sometimes these same people criticizing our authentic bags recommended one of the "trusted sellers" whose names more often than not consist of 3-4 letters. Apparently their work is so great it's even "better than the original," that's funny....

Another category of people simply suddenly believed in their own "expertise" and decided to judge everything around them by their own rules. Known only to them. Citing obviously low quality Chinese rep photos as examples!
What does this tell us? First, many people simply want to diminish the quality of your bag, even an authentic one, in order to offer you their seller. Second, a large group of people suddenly decided for some reason that they understand something about the world of Hermes and can make such judgments.

And while 35% doesn't seem like a big number, the problem is that it's exactly these people who are very active in the comments, they're the ones who pressure and influence your opinion. Those who wrote positive things said things like "great bag, leather is incredibly cool," but those who criticized wrote and wrote, took photos and wrote again. Some consciously and some without understanding it but pushing you and steering you toward their supposedly "correct opinion."

The "second bottom." An interesting fact emerged while we conducted that experiment. Earlier I said we periodically wrote seller names from the "trusted list" or whatever that list is called, the one you get on by paying the subreddit admins? Haha. Anyway the thing is that initially we didn't write seller names at all but in 90% of subs our posts were simply deleted, and in some our account was even blocked. Why? That's strange. Where a girl with a real account and history asks to evaluate a photo of her bag, with no hint of a seller in the post or comments, and the post is simply deleted or doesn't pass moderation. And at the same time posts with certain seller names keep appearing and appearing.

Of course... we decided to test this and wrote the names of those sellers mentioned by other people whose posts weren't deleted. I think you can already guess what happened? Exactly, the posts passed moderation, weren't deleted and some are still up in those "honest" subs to this day. It's all simple and obvious, either sellers pay them or these subs were created by sellers, or maybe bought

All of this mostly concerns subs that publish content on the topic of Hermes, since our experiment specifically involved Hermes bags. And I'll be honest, both the "first bottom" and the "second bottom" simultaneously shocked us and confirmed our fears. This space is rotten to the core, and beyond deception from sellers, bought and inflated accounts, now there are even entirely fake subs! There are simply many people here who have never held an authentic in their hands and evaluate it as "below average quality" because of a crooked stitch or stamp in their opinion.

Hermes is not just a bag, it's handwork, expensive and natural high quality leather, Hermes is people who apparently work with soul since their bags have their own "roughness" in production. And Chinese manufacturers make in a bad sense "perfect" reps, stitching, stamps, if we're talking about the high segment, and this is that case where crossing that level makes the bag soulless like a Barbie doll.

Don't forget that I'm writing about high quality Hermes, the maximum, and of course I'm not factoring in average and low quality because there's nothing to even discuss there!

Questions - Write in DM and have a good day!