Quick answer
Selling a Hermes bag comes down to four questions, and each has a guide: how to sell (seven steps), where to sell (five routes compared), whether it is real (nine checks) and whether Hermes will buy it back (it will not). For value, the price guide gives the bands we pay by model and size, for complete sets made from 2012 onwards.
Selling
The practical side: how a sale works from start to finish, which route leaves you with the most, and how to be sure of the bag before anyone puts a price on it.
- Guide How to Sell a Hermes Bag Seven steps, from finding the year on the date stamp to getting paid safely, with the questions to ask every buyer.
- Guide The Best Place to Sell a Hermes Bag Consignment, auction, marketplace, pawnbroker or outright buyer, compared on what you keep, speed and risk.
- Guide How to Tell if a Hermes Bag Is Real Nine checks professionals make, what genuine looks like, the red flags, and why superfakes need an expert.
- Guide Does Hermes Buy Back Bags? It does not, and there is no part exchange. What Hermes does offer, and what owners do instead.
Value and Identification
What the bag is, and what it is worth. The prices come from the same model as our calculator, so they are the bands we pay rather than retail asking prices.
- Price guide Hermes Resale Value: The Price Guide Every model and size, with the bands a UK buyer pays today and the details that move a price.
- Price guide Birkin Resale Value What a Birkin is worth by size, leather, colour and condition, and why smaller sizes fetch more.
- Price guide Kelly Bag Value Mini Kelly to Kelly 35, Sellier against Retourne, and what each is worth to a buyer.
- Reference Birkin Sizes Compared The Birkin 25, 30, 35 and 40 in centimetres and inches, and which hold their value best.
- Reference Hermes Leather Types Togo, Epsom, Clemence, Swift and the rest: how to tell them apart and what each does to value.
- Free tool Hermes Date Stamp Checker Pick the shape and letter of the blind stamp and get the year, for every stamp from 1945.
Where to Start
- You inherited a bag and know nothing about it: read the year with the date stamp checker, work through the nine authenticity checks, then look it up in the Hermes price guide.
- You want the money this week: follow how to sell a Hermes bag, then see how selling to us works.
- You are weighing consignment: the worked example in the best place to sell a Hermes bag shows what you keep each way.
- You want to know which bags we buy: every model, size and leather we buy, with the bands for each.
Every guide is written by our valuation desk. How we set our prices, and what we turn down, is on the about page.