Bringing Home the Birkin
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A long time since I read it, but Michael Tonello's memoir "Bringing Home the Birkin" was a fun and easy read. Long and short, he figured out how to skip the waiting lists, buy the bags and flip them for profit. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bringing-Home-Birkin-Pursuit-Covete...
on “The Secret Economics of the Birkin Bag” ↗Banning people who are obviously buying stuff for resale is extremely common in luxury goods retail. There's a book "Bringing Home the Birkin" about a guy who had an entire lifestyle based around skirting Hermes rules about buying too many Birkin bags.
on “Banned from buying iPads... for life.” ↗