Designer Handbags -- Is Renting Better Than Buying?
Part 2
If you're expecting to find Hermes, Via Spiga, Louis Vuitton and high end Chanel on them -- you might just have to think that one through again. (Especially the Hermes!!) But this isn't to say that you can't find good, solid names on there. Monsac, Elliott Lucca, The Sak, Perlina, Juicy Couture are all available on one rental site or another.So -- you've set your membership level and started drooling over the bags. What happens next? Once you've chosen a bag that you'd like to rent, you put in a request for a bag rental online at the site. The staff there check and make sure that the bag you want is available and, if it is -- bingo. Two to three days later, a UPS man arrives at your door, bearing gifts! (Didn't you ever listen to your mommy tell you never accept gifts from strange men! Tch!) Once you have the bag you can keep it for as long as you like -- there is no minimum and no maximum period that you have to return the bag within. Once you do decide that you've had enough of that particular one, simply search again, choose another bag that you like. Send back the one you currently have and they'll send out the next one by return. (Certain levels of membership on the different sites let you hire / rent two bags at the same time) But -- shock horror gasp -- you've fallen in love with your new Hyanuki Shoulder Sling Bum bag and want to keep it. You can't give it up. Spots form in front of your eyes and you feel faint, slightly sick and deranged at the mere thought! Is skipping the country the only way you can keep hold of it? Thankfully for you -- and the bounty hunters -- you CAN keep a bag that you grow attached to. Simply let the rental company know that you'd like a quote to buy and they'll make you an offer price, based on age, condition and popularity of the bag. If you can come to some agreement -- it's yours! What about damage? Has little Tommy just emptied the contents of your Revlon No8 Blush Red nail varnish into the rented bag?? (Oops -- Tommy's about to get to see a lot of his room for the next few weeks!) No worries -- just send the bag back to the rental company with a short, explanatory note and they get a quote on the cleaning cost. If you disagree with the price then you have an option to buy it 'as is', otherwise they go ahead and get it cleaned and you pay. Simple really. (P.S. Is Tommy allowed out of his room yet? No? Oh, okay!) So, is renting a designer handbag a good idea? Well, let me put it this way. Is the Pope Catholic? There you go then!
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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