Designer Handbags -- Is Renting Better Than Buying?
Part 1
Well, potentially, yes. But it does depend on what you want out of your designer handbags. Are you the type of handbag lover who enjoys collecting? Do you gain a huge boost each day when you go to your closet and try to work out which bag you'll carry today, a huge rush of satisfaction warming your insides as you survey your collection of shapes, sizes and colors?Or do you use a handbag to finish off your outfit for the day? Each bag has a specific function or role to be used for, beyond which it rarely sees the light of day? If you are the first type of handbag lover, one who delights in collecting and owning handbags, then I suspect renting them is not for you in the main. Maybe as a quickie solution to solving a particularly knotty "What would go with this outfit" problem as you buy a one off outfit for a wedding or dinner. But if you are the latter type of handbag lover, one who's not so worried about possession but is keen to have a huge selection available and to be able to "duck and dive" in your choice of handbag, renting would be almost ideal for you. Although the principles of renting have been around since Ugg rented some space on the side of his friend Urg's Brontosaurus, to advertise his new fangled idea of round stone wheels, the idea of renting handbags is relatively new. Currently there are three major Handbag Rental sites available online, with more sure to appear before long. So -- how does it work? Well, to begin with, you have to become a member of the site in order to be able to rent their bags. The level of membership you join under dictates which bags you are allowed to rent. The more you pay in membership fees each month, the more you get back -- so to speak. Sort of like life really! So, if you join at the basic membership level (around about $19.99 per month on average) then you'll have a selection -- depending on which rental site you joined -- of about 100 low name designers. (Bear in mind that although there may be some similarity here and there, what one rental company classes as low name designer, another may not and vice versa. It's worth looking around before you take membership of one particular site to see what bags they list at each level.) Designer labels we've seen at the basic level across the different rental sites have been ones such as Balenciaga, Brighton, Vittadini, Spader, Aitken and one even had Coach bags listed at this level!! Now, I think in all sensibility you need to be fairly realistic when it comes to those high quality and expensive designer names that you expect to be ale to rent from sites such as these.
Copyright:: Rufus Steele 2005. Rufus Steele is the author and creator of the http://www.1st-4-louis-vuitton.com website, a site dedicated to all things Louis Vuitton
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