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It's rounding 8pm on Prime Day, which means our team is battle worn and loopy from 48 straight hours of covering the best Prime Day deals. I'm tired. So very tired. Which is why when I saw this whopping 1% Prime Day discount on an Hermès Birkin, I near about blew a gasket. 

Look, I'm about as deep in how-to-get-a-Birkin TikTok as any other Millenial woman. I know the whole sales associate song and dance — a Birkin is something to be offered, not chosen. And today, Amazon has graciously offered us the chance to buy a used Birkin for the low low starting price of $17,300, once you clip the "coupon" for $200 off. That's just for the green color, though. You'll pony up a cool $29,300 (with discount) if you'd like the pink color. But don't worry, it comes with free 2-day Prime shipping.

The thing that really gets me is that Amazon has advertised this "deal" on its homepage. I had to put on my glasses just to make sure I was seeing things correctly as I searched for deals to add to our best clothing deals and best beauty deals roundups. But, yep, there it was: a little "Prime Big Deal" badge atop a picture of a teal Birkin. 

This whole encounter has made me fall into an existential crisis wondering what exactly I'm doing with my life. I'm fully aware that as a commerce editor, I play a deep role in consumerism and internet culture. But this is just too far. I'm seriously contemplating quitting my job, selling all my worldly possessions, and renouncing all I've ever done to further Jeffery Bezos' fortune.

Suffice to say, I think it's time for me to call it quits for this Prime Day. See you next year (maybe).

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Lauren Savoie

Deputy Editor, Reviews




Lauren Savoie is deputy editor of Insider Reviews and a member of Insider's editorial standards board. Lauren leads the home, kitchen, pets, and travel teams, and is deeply involved in all editorial decision-making, with a particular focus in strategic content planning, career growth of reporters and editors, and strong journalistic standards for the Reviews team. 
In 2022, Lauren attended The Poynter Institute's Leadership Academy for Women in Media, a prestigious program that recognizes leaders in the journalism industry.
Lauren joined the Insider team in 2020, first as kitchen editor and soon after as senior home & kitchen editor, where she pioneered original testing methodologies for buying guides and built a diverse team of freelancers and reporters with deep expertise in product testing. You can see some of her work in our guides to the best flower delivery services, the best pillows, and the best sous vide machines. 
Before her time at Insider, Lauren was the senior reviews editor at America's Test Kitchen, where she wrote and edited more than 300 in-depth, unbiased buying guides and reviewed more than 1,000 kitchen products. Her work has appeared in Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines, in dozens of cookbooks, on two Emmy-nominated TV shows, and on CNN.com, Fodor's, Yahoo, LifeHacker, the Splendid Table, and more.
Lauren is currently Kansas-based, but continues to live like a lifelong Bostonian: drinking Dunkin' iced coffee in the winter, spending summers "down" the Cape, and sharing her home with a cat named Chowder. 
Say hello at lsavoie.com or on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. 
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