{"id":724385,"date":"2010-04-27T06:47:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20134802c5c23970c"},"modified":"2010-04-27T06:47:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:47:24","slug":"wait-no-longer-to-pay-an-arm-and-a-leg-for-a-hermes-birkin-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/724385","title":{"rendered":"Wait no longer to pay an arm and a leg for a Herm\u00e8s Birkin bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandfreak.com\/2010\/04\/wait-no-longer-to-pay-an-arm-and-a-leg-for-a-herm%C3%A8s-birkin-bag.html\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hermes-birkin\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834519bc269e20133ecfca0e3970b \" src=\"http:\/\/brandmediaweek.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834519bc269e20133ecfca0e3970b-200wi\" style=\"width: 155px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; height: 170px;\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this news and try not to get positively giddy: There&#8217;s no more waiting list for a Herm\u00e8s Birkin bag. Yippee for celebrities (who probably didn&#8217;t have to wait for the grossly overpriced satchels anyway) and insanely rich folks (who have made this brand so coveted that people actually fight to spend upwards of $120,000. On. A. Purse!). Obviously, I&#8217;m not the demo, and I&#8217;ve never understood the appeal of an accessory like this, especially at jaw-dropping price points that start at more than $6,500. Waiting lists populated by those with money to burn were either legendary (if you were on one) or ridiculous (if you weren&#8217;t). <em>New York<\/em> magazine&#8217;s The Cut blog sums up the situation by saying that though the purse is &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/fashion\/2010\/04\/the_wait-list_on_hermes_birkin.html?mid=fashion-alert--20100423\" >still crazily expensive, it&#8217;s not crazily exclusive.<\/a>&quot; Mere mortals can have one, too! Never mind the house payment. Now, considering the carefully cultivated image of the &quot;it&quot; bag, is this good for the brand? Maybe the next move will be a surprise &quot;shortage&quot; before a lot of commoners find their way to Portero.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by T.L. Stanley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this news and try not to get positively giddy: There&#8217;s no more waiting list for a Herm\u00e8s Birkin bag. Yippee for celebrities (who probably didn&#8217;t have to wait for the grossly overpriced satchels anyway) and insanely rich folks (who have made this brand so coveted that people actually fight to spend upwards of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32rD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}