Koffer Direkt is a third party retailer. People have talked about LVMH lowering the quality, which is not the case if you own some of the recent models. LVMH is also trying to eliminate third party dealers, and monopolize, keeping prices unreasonable. I did not buy from Koffer Direkt; I bought from a gray-market dealer, and all LVMH is doing by cutting out third party dealers, is losing them customers. I would have bought from Koffer Direkt if they carried Rimowa. I apologize if I went off on a tangent. The great thing about the current international climate of fear, is that luggage sales suffer and as a result surplus is sold through a backdoor to the gray market.