"Best as a 인증샷 background"... Luxury 'Shopping Bags' Also Traded Secondhand

Active Trading of Rolex and Hermes Accessories
"A Transformation of Conspicuous Consumption in the SNS Era," Analysis Also

"Rolex watch box set is 320,000 KRW. The exterior is clean."

"Herm?s, Chanel, Louis Vuitton shopping bags are sold for around 10,000 KRW each."

"Chanel shoe box, shopping bag, and ribbon set for sale. Slight traces but not very noticeable."

Shopping Bags and Product Cases Received When Purchasing Luxury Goods Are Also Popular

Gucci shopping bag

Shopping bags, product boxes, and cases from luxury brands have become valuable items in the secondhand market.

On the 11th, dozens of posts selling shopping bags and cases from high-end brands such as Rolex, Herm?s, and Chanel were uploaded daily on multiple secondhand trading platforms. Luxury brands, which were often traded through secondhand platforms due to their high prices, now see even empty packaging become popular items.

Searching for "Rolex box" on a secondhand trading platform yielded dozens of posts. The market price for Rolex watch boxes ranges from 200,000 to 300,000 KRW. Various boxes are traded, including product-specific and size-specific boxes, as well as vintage boxes from about 10 years ago. Additionally, Omega watch boxes sell for 150,000 to 200,000 KRW, and IWC watch boxes are sold for 50,000 to 100,000 KRW.

Shopping bags from luxury fashion brands are also common secondhand items. According to a seller offering luxury brand shopping bags, Chanel boutique's black shopping bags are traded at △30 cm width * 24 cm height for 13,000 KRW △43 cm width * 33 cm height for 17,000 KRW. Herm?s orange shopping bags are sold at △30 cm width * 30 cm height for 13,000 KRW △43 cm width * 26 cm height for 18,000 KRW △28 cm width * 43 cm height for 16,000 KRW.

"It's Expensive to Buy the Main Product for a Proof Shot"...Accessory Prices Rising

The reason accessories, not the main products, are sold at high prices is analyzed to be due to "conspicuous consumption." People buy secondhand shopping bags and boxes to use for "proof shots" posted on social networking services (SNS).

A luxury shopping bag seller said, "You can only get a shopping bag by purchasing a product from a luxury brand, but since even the smallest items from these brands easily exceed several hundred thousand KRW, people just buy the shopping bags secondhand."

Empty bottles of expensive champagne, wine, and other alcoholic beverages are also traded. Mr. Lee (28), who purchased an empty bottle of the high-end champagne "Armandi" through a secondhand trading platform at the end of the year, said, "I used wine and champagne bottles as props for interior decoration and posted it on my blog. I wanted to display pretty bottles, but they were too expensive, so I bought only empty bottles secondhand and am satisfied."

The Armandi empty bottle and case Mr. Lee purchased cost 25,000 KRW. Additionally, empty bottles of other high-end champagnes like Dom P?rignon are traded for 10,000 to 20,000 KRW, and Krug bottles are sold for around 10,000 KRW.

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