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Hi helpers😊. I recently posted a coach bag for sale that I actually bought off eBay. The item was removed for being counterfeit. It is vintage and made in USA and I am nearly certain New York. Can anyone tell me why they think it's not real? Thanks in advance!!!
The bag was correctly removed. It is not authentic.
It has an invalid serial number.
@rebell45 wrote:It could very well be real but someone, a competitor maybe, reported it, so eBay took it down. Unless you can get it authenticated, and then prove it to eBay, don't try to relist it.
BTW, it's a pet peeve that so many are so quick to assume that it's a "competitor" who reported a listing.
My conservative guess is that 98% of the sellers of authentic items do NOT consider fellow sellers of similar authentic items to be "competitors." I consider us all to be allies, partners who pride ourselves on doing our homework, verifying that items are genuine BEFORE listing them and preparing good listings with clear and definitive pictures and accurate, full descriptions.
Why would so many other knowledgeable boardies and I come here (and other forums) to educate, advise and help by offering authentication opinions if we were trying to eliminate the "competition?"
There's nothing wrong with finding deals and flipping them. But if you buy from thrift stores, yard sales, other ebay sellers, other online sites or even reselling a gift, unless you (as the seller) are expert enough in the brand to know authenticity, it's in your best interest to have items verified as legal before reselling. And in fact, it's the law!
@offhajenni wrote:I figured out my problem. It was my fault... mistakenly placed a #1 where an I should have been in the serial number. Duh me🤣🤣🤣
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that the bag is authentic and you described an incorrect serial number?
DO NOT relist that item because it's absolutely and unquestionably fake.
And to make it easier for others, I'm adding the creed, enlarged and right side up.
@offhajenni wrote:I would love for you to make it easy for me and tell me why you think or know so. The serial number if entered correctly does come up and calling coach to verify.
Your bag is fake and i gave the reason in my first reply to you in post #3 .
Coach employees are prohibited by company policy from authenticating (even in person) and NO ONE can authenticate over the phone without seeing pictures of the actual item. Even if your bag had a "valid" serial number, that doesn't mean that the bag is authentic. Counterfeiters can (and do) put valid serial numbers on fakes.
@mapapicker wrote:ebay has no clue! i listed a knock off kate spade purse. of course they took it down. they sent me an email stating you have to state in listing it is a knock off. (actually this was in the listing). i relisted it and they took it down again. title state KNOCK OFF IN CAPS. But yet if you go into ebay you will knock off purses listed!!!!!!! they pick and choose which is discrimination. you can't list a purse but yet someone can list used UNDERWEAR, USED LINGERIE, DISGUSTING SEX ITEMS.
Fakes are illegal. Designer inspired items are legal.
The difference is that counterfeit items copy designer names, trademarked logos, markings, etc. Designer inspired items have the LOOK of the designer branded item but without designer markings.
If an item is labeled or has designer markings, imprints, logos, fabrics but is not made by that company, it's ILLEGAL to list and sell ANYWHERE, including if it's admitted to be fake.
BTW, although your bag claims to be style 9057, that bag is NOT what the style looks like! Even if it looked like the correct style, it would still be fake, but this is one of the reasons why Coach nor anyone else can "authenticate" based on the serial number.
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