Question about huge price discrepancy with Bel Ami by Hermes

Today I went to the official Hermes Paris headquarters store in Toronto. I looked around and saw that the Bel Ami product was not on display in the store. The sales guy near me was selling a rug or something to a woman. So I waited until he had a moment then asked him if his store sold Bel Ami. He took a few seconds to think about it then was enthusiastically said "Yes, we do have Bel Ami. Do you want to to try it?" I said "Yes". Then he went into a closed drawer behind the counter out of view of the public eye and pulled out a bottle of Bel Ami, then took a piece of cardboard paper and put one spritz on it and gave it to me. Then he stashed the Bel Ami back into the drawer.

I asked him how much it costs, and he said $149. I was shocked because I was looking at online prices of it last night and I saw prices for the same thing that he claimed was $149, being listed online for between $40-60 CAD or USD (which is supposed to be less valuable than CAD at the present time). I was so shocked that I had to ask again just to be sure I had heard right so I said "The price is $149 right?" and he said "Yes".

This got me wondering, are the online bottles counterfeit imitations (seems unlikely since a wide variety of websites have that price range...). Otherwise, who in their right mind would pay $149 for something that can be bought for $40-60?

Is the Hermes store just way over-priced? Isn't that kind of unethical of them to be padding their prices by such a crazy margin?

I'm also wondering: how come the Hermes store doesn't put Bel Ami on display, yet they did put a lot of their other cologne products on display?

I am pretty sure I saw him take the Bel Ami out of a Bel Ami box before he did the spritz. Should testers be in a box like that? Actually that is something that shocked me too, because I was wondering if he just opens a random Bel Ami bottle and spritzes that for anyone who wants to try it. Would that be something that is illegal to do, to sell bottles that have been spritzed on the cardboard paper as new?

I'm sure they had lots of Bel Ami stock though, otherwise he woulda told me they only had a tester in stock, right?

They had a Terre bottle as the tester on the counter, that was the only tester that was visible though.

How come Bel Ami isn't in demand, is that because it's bad? The reason I looked into it was because I read a thread on this site that said it was good and lasts really long.

I spritzed two spritzes of the Terre tester onto my palm and wrist, but the scent was totally gone two hours later. Is that normal? Would other eau de toilettes last longer than that with just two spritzes, or no?