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Daily prompt: corner wear — prevention and honest grading

Today's prompt is care. Corners are where carried bags show their years first, and where condition grades are won and lost. What do you do to protect them — rotation, storage, carrying habits — and how harshly do you grade corner wear when you're the buyer?

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Caviar vs lambskin after five years of real useHouse thread

@TheHandbagHause · Chanel · 51 votes · 0 replies · 2026-11-11

My medium flap in caviar still looks near-new after five years of regular rotation. The lambskin mini I baby still picked up corner wear and a fingernail mark in year one. If it's your first flap and you plan to carry it…

Microchip bags: what changed for resaleHouse thread

@TheHandbagHause · Chanel · 28 votes · 0 replies · 2026-11-11

Post-2021 bags have the metal plate microchip instead of the authenticity card and hologram sticker. Buyers keep asking for the card out of habit — on a microchip bag there isn't one, and a seller offering one is the red…

Price check: Classic Flap medium — retail vs resale, November 2026House thread

@TheHandbagHause · Chanel · 0 votes · 0 replies · 2026-11-11

The numbers on this site's Classic Flap page, as of November 2026: boutique ≈ CA$13,500, resale CA$10,500 – 13,000. So a clean caviar medium with full set near the top of the resale range is not automatically overpriced …

Is this real? The medium flap checks that matter mostHouse thread

@TheHandbagHause · Chanel · 0 votes · 0 replies · 2026-11-11

From the Hause — the short version of the Classic Flap checklist, the one on this site's flap pages. The CC turn-lock's right C overlaps at the top and the left C at the bottom; screws on the back plate are flat-head, ne…

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