I'm interested to see what comes out of the Antitrust lawsuit. Because every luxury brand requires a buyer to have a substantial purchase history in order to get an allocation for an exclusive model. I think Ferrari was the first manufacturer to do this. Now Porsche, McLaren, Bugatti, and even Rolex practice the same buisness model with their limited edition cars. You have to be invited to buy one and are restricted to selling it for a moment in time after taking delivery, or else you loose your relationship with the brand.
There is a big second hand market for the bags. I've seen many videos of people bring in their never used bag to sell and others buying them because they can just by a bag not a lot of other stuff first.
It is all marketing, advertising and image cultivation. Most of these products are made in China. Those craftsmen in the video are from a longtime ago.
It's amazing how women got fooled into this nonsense. I am yet to meet a straight man that looks at one of these and says, "Nice bag or whatever overpriced thing, ima have relations or wife this womn."