A year ago the Hermes rep market was different. Not perfect, it was never perfect, but different. And if you bought a year ago and were happy, there's no guarantee that buying from the same seller today you'll get the same thing.   
Here's what's really happening. Reddit sellers are not manufacturers. I've written about this many times and I'll repeat it again because this is the key to understanding everything else. They buy from suppliers. And suppliers change. Today they found a good leather batch, quality is decent. Tomorrow that supplier raised their price, they found another cheaper one. Quality dropped. The seller won't tell you about it. Why would they? Reviews are inflated, negative comments get shadow banned with inflated downvotes and you simply don't see them. Positive ones with inflated  upvotes sit at the top. The picture is perfect. Reality is different

There's another degradation mechanism that few people discuss. A seller who has worked for a year and built up a client base wants to earn more. Logical. But raising the price is hard, questions will immediately arise. It's much easier to quietly lower the quality. Slightly worse leather, slightly thinner plating, slightly sloppier edges. Each step is imperceptible. Combined after six months it's a completely different product at the same price. Buyers who bought earlier are happy. Buyers who buy now get worse. But how would they know?   
That's exactly why reviews from a year ago about a seller tell you almost nothing about what you'll receive today. And a frequent trend lately is what I call "fast food sellers," like the well known old seller starting with J who in the end scammed everyone and left them without money and without bags, and now the new "super famous" seller, by coincidence probably also starting with J, has taken the exact same course and the exact same model of working with inflated reviews and so on. Just like in the first case I wrote about how it would all end but few listened to me, and now the same thing, soon you'll see how he too will leave everyone without money.

What to do in this situation?  
 Honestly I've already given a lot of advice about technical questions and  so on, I think you all know this if you've been reading me for  a long time, if not read the previous posts, it will be useful. But globally you can't escape this, you just need to understand who is a scammer here and who is a real seller, who is  just learning and who entered this market through deception right from the start like J... J-ankster, that name suits them better. The first or second or even third, which will apparently come, doesn't matter, the outcome will be the same, remember my words...

Small manufacturers that work not on volume but on reputation are a different story in this sense. There a change of supplier is an  event not a routine. There the batch quality is monitored because every bag is a reputation not just a position in a sales table. But you won't find those on reddit, they don't sit there. And  you know that's a real pain...   
The Hermes rep market  is degrading on average. Not because the technology is worse, on the contrary they're getting better at making things, but because of these "quick money lovers." And as long as buyers focus on inflated reviews rather than technical questions and current data, this trend will continue

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Why the quality of Hermes reps is falling and how sellers manipulate this...