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The first thing the reader should know, if he is not aware, is that one does not enter the premises of the Parisina Hermès house and buy what occurs to him if he has to pay it, for more than these accessories have an average valuethat oscillates between 7.000 and 8.000 euros.Because even with these prices, demand is superior to the supply of articles.
When selling, this company dedicated to luxury leather goods has a filter made up of trained look vendors that decides with a look if the customer requesting a birkin or Kelly wallet is “deserving” of the product and just then goes down to look for itTo the warehouse or responds with a pious lie, of type "there are no more" or, in other cases, they invite the applicant to score in a waiting list of up to six months for when, hypothetically arrives, the merchandise.
This exclusivity has engendered at least two parallel markets.The first, well -known, is that of the falsifications that the manteros sell in the streets.The second is that of "false customers" formed to overcome employee scrutiny and resell articles sometimes tripling the value in false boutiques.
At the end of January, ten people, between 24 and 57, were arrested in Paris for "money laundering and work not declared," reports the newspaper Le Parisien.The newspaper describes a band led by a Frenchman of Tunisian origin that for four years, along with Chinese partners, recruited “mules” to buy accessories in the 21 Hermès stores in France.
The "false customers", many times women, were dressed in some brand products and the tricks were learned to seduce sellers.They told stories of a grandmother with terminal cancer that deserved such a portfolio or a foreign noviecita who was going to celebrate a very special birthday.Sometimes, they were discovered and expelled, but as the “mules” parisien they could be behind half the sales of official businesses.
Once the bag or wallet was bought, the resale was made in the neighborhood of Faubourg Saint-Honoré, a few meters from the Elyseo Palace, where buyers, a few “chosen” aware of their existence, thought they acquired in authorized stores theprecious brand accessories several times more expensive without having to go through the humiliation of the filter or the waiting lists.
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"Ethically, I felt comfortable"
"I knew that the problem behind what I was doing was money laundering, the mafia," admits Léo, an actor who has appeared in several French series and films.It was mainly a secondary job to earn money without harming me, ”explains this young actor to Le Parisien.
"Ethically, I felt comfortable.It was also a way to denounce the absurd and inhuman commercial policy of Hermès, which operates an arbitrary selection in its clientele and creates material shortage.This is personally shocking, ”he says.
Police estimates that the band earned a million euros per month.In the investigation the agents came to discover a wallet of crocodile sold at 45.000 euros that had left his "mule" 13.000 euros of commission.
The total loot, valued in tens of millions of euros, was then for invested in real estate in Tunisia or Portugal.
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