What's the very best Hermes seller. I conducted a big research that took me a lot of time.

I studied countless reviews, the accounts these reviews were written from, and tried to trace the chains of connections in the cases I found most interesting. The results will shock you.

From my experience, clients who leave a review personally to the seller for example in WhatsApp is not a frequent thing. About 50% of people do this. Some just receive the goods and that's it, or write "received" so the seller knows. But for a person to receive the goods and then write a big detailed review with photos say on Reddit, what kind of motivation do they need. If the review is negative everything is clear. They're offended, their goal is to tell about the seller what they think and show his flaws, kind of hurt him, take revenge for a bad product. But if everything is great. If they're happy with the purchase. What percentage will go to Reddit and write a detailed review with photos and then also answer comments or even worse give the seller's contact right in the comments. The chances of such a turn of events approach less than 5% at best if you take real honest reviews. But I would say a maximum of 2 to 3%. In that case for every 100 satisfied clients on Reddit really no more than 3 to 5 reviews with detailed photos and so on can appear. Believe me, in 10 years of experience in this business I understood that these are the real numbers, which my personal research also confirms.

So a seller who gets let's say 30 to 50 reviews on Reddit per month should have around 700 to 1500 SATISFIED clients. Sell more than 25 to 50 bags PER DAY. And if there are 10 such sellers. Doesn't it seem to you that the rep market on Reddit especially in the expensive bags segment from 1000 and up for Hermes isn't that big to sell dozens of bags a day and have almost every client be satisfied. Because the real numbers are that someone somewhere isn't satisfied with something. Maybe not critically but small things always happen with everyone (but based on my experience more often the client is completely dissatisfied with something serious for example leather or hardware quality, which happens most often). On Reddit there are dozens AND HUNDREDS of reviews about sellers, about the same names. Many people write to me every day, and those who ask my opinion about a seller in 80% of cases mention a maximum of 4 to 5 names. The same names.

I won't name them here, you all know them anyway because they have HUNDREDS of reviews. Where from? People who write to me say two things. Either "I want to buy from them, what do you think" or "I already bought from them but the quality is worse than they said." That is, they split into those who already fell into this trap with reviews and buying spots on verified lists, and those who are just about to fall. But I hope you won't do this. I won't waste your time and repeat what I've already written many times about what I constantly say (if you don't know, just read some past posts). About how easy it is to buy reviews, inflate likes and dislikes, how to bring your name to the top of all lists. All this is done for money and not that big money compared to their profit. Believe me, when you sell dozens of bags for 1500 to 2500 buying them for 300 to 500, you can afford HUNDREDS of reviews at least every day. The math is simple. That's where hundreds of enthusiastic reviews for the same names come from. Not from thousands of satisfied clients but from big investments in marketing, which you pay for by OVERPAYING greatly for medium quality thinking you're buying high.

Don't believe me. Just spend a couple of weeks and study this yourself. Look at which accounts write reviews, where else they write them, which subs they're subscribed to, do they advertise the seller. Do they say his name. A phone number right in the comments. Just build a logical chain if you don't believe me, but I did it for you. I checked hundreds of reviews. Clicked on the author's username. Looked at account history. And you know what I found. Accounts created 2 to 4 months ago. The only activity is a positive review about a specific seller. Or accounts that write positive reviews about 5 to 10 different sellers in different subs. Or accounts that suddenly after a year of silence start actively praising one seller. I traced the chains. The same set of accounts writes reviews about one seller in different subs during a week. Coordinated campaign.

I found accounts that in comments under every post about Hermes advertise the same seller. Dozens of comments "I bought from (name), quality amazing, here's the contact." This isn't a satisfied client, this is a paid shill. Or some do mass spam, buying accounts that are 2 to 6 months old and spamming with reviews until they're blocked. Well, not everyone will check EVERY review like I did. Right. Besides this, a new scheme has appeared that "gives value" the way I do but in a primitive manner typical for sellers, they just steal other people's posts from the internet or wherever, and also from new accounts post "useful posts" which most often have a bunch of inaccuracies. Then in the first comment there will be someone who asks "and who's the seller" and immediately in response a WhatsApp number flies in. There are always 10 to 30 upvotes inflated and several enthusiastic comments that Reddit most often hides in shadow ban because even Reddit understands it's spam. And I'm not even mentioning that some subs, or to be more precise ALL popular Hermes rep subs (except this one, or have you seen seller advertising here?), advertise their sellers. In one it's immediately written in the description contacts of a Chinese seller. In another they ban for any even slightly negative opinion about certain sellers with letter "M" and letter "P" and so on. You get it. The moderators get kickbacks from sellers for protection and promotion. Trusted lists are paid placements. Negative reviews are deleted, positive reviews are pinned. The entire system is corrupt.

Why am I writing all this. Simply because I'm tired of it. This chaos will never end until people here buy without thinking, just acting "like everyone." You'll get quality "like everyone" and in 99.9% it's bad. Stop believing reviews blindly. Stop buying from "verified" sellers just because they have hundreds of reviews. These reviews are bought. Start asking technical questions. Demand specifics about materials, specifications, construction. Ignore fancy names and fake reviews. Judge a seller by their knowledge, not by their Reddit karma (but their karma is most often low too haha).

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