albertabrightalberta
Before paying a pro for an authentication, post pictures here. If items are obvious fakes, professional authentications would be throwing good money after bad.
If the items are indeed found to be authentic, we can make further recommendations.
With that said, I can't even count the number of times sellers have come here complaining about their "1000% authentic bags" being removed and those items were found to be fakes and the removals were correct.
To post pictures, just reply to the thread and use the camera icon to upload pics.
@poo_gal wrote:These are older bags and that were just listed at $30 . So not worth it. Will probably just donate them instead but I just don't understand what it is I'm not doing right with listing them.
@poo_gal PLEASE do not donate since that will allow another buyer to be scammed.
After my previous post, I looked at your current and completed listings.
Was this one of the removed items?
If so, you owe that buyer a refund. The bag was correctly removed.
And I did a bit of internet searching and found a cached listing of this item. If this is the other, it too is fake.
Your bag may have come from "Neumann Marcus" but neither came from Neiman Marcus!
@albertabrightalberta wrote:
@poo_gal wrote:These are older bags and that were just listed at $30 . So not worth it. Will probably just donate them instead but I just don't understand what it is I'm not doing right with listing them.
@poo_gal PLEASE do not donate since that will allow another buyer to be scammed.
After my previous post, I looked at your current and completed listings.
Was this one of the removed items?
If so, you owe that buyer a refund. The bag was correctly removed.
And I did a bit of internet searching and found a cached listing of this item. If this is the other, it too is fake.
Your bag may have come from "Neumann Marcus" but neither came from Neiman Marcus!
Omigosh, I REMEMBER that second purse, the black one with the phony fur. Someone had asked about it on another highly trusted PurseForum where I also spend time, and the authorized authenticator who looked at it went through some of the reasons why it was an obvious fake. The full serial number was included in the post, M3U-8B30 which was the first thing that caught my eye since that M3U- serial number prefix has been used in both real Coaches and in a ton of fakes. Im just going to Copy what she said, and I agreed with every point she made when I looked at the listing and at Coachs photo of the genuine purse. There were a few other details that she didnt mention too:
"There are problems with the serial number, the creed patch itself, and most obviously, the C pattern. One look at the pattern should be a major red flag. The fur is wrong, the hangtag is fake, and unless my eyes deceive me, the genuine 8B30 is leather, not fabric.
Also those vertical "stripes" down the front should have rows of tiny glass beads if it was genuine, which by themselves were a major problem because they broke very easily."
The seller, who is the same person or at least the same ID as the Original Poster here, could have just searched Ebay for other purses with the same serial number, there are 3 or 4 listed right now, all of them suede, not fabric with a C pattern, and with details that the black fake listed by this threads OP with the C pattern doesnt have, including 2 rows of glass beads, and REAL fur instead of that stuff on the fake.
And the other purse, the patchwork one that she originally said was bought at Neumann Marcus, is an obvious fake that can be spotted just from the one small photo. I see one detail that in the form in the photo was never used on any genuine Coach. There are a few other questionable details too but theres a BIG red flag just in that one picture.
So thats two for two.
I have some unsolicited advice that can help you in the future should you decide to continue to sell handbags or other highly faked items.
There is nothing wrong with shopping thrifts, yard sales, flea markets, CL or reselling another person's no-longer-needed items but a good rule of thumb is that unless you PERSONALLY purchased the items from authorized retailers, outlet stores or department stores, it's recommended that you verify authenticity BEFORE listing.
Not only does the law (and ebay) require sellers to know items are authentic before reselling but verifying authenticity is good for your own peace of mind (knowing you won't scam another buyer), gives reassurance to buyers that they're getting what they've paid for and finally, helps your integrity and reputation with ebay's PTB.
Unfortunately, trusting your friends cost you and your account a couple of counterfeit "dings" that remain on your account for a year. And those dings could easily have been avoided had you checked first.
