albertabrightalberta
@cedarwaxwing2015 wrote:Everyone else called it a feed bag.
The official name for style 9085 is a duffel sac. "Everyone else" can come up with various names, some of which can be accurate or in line with the style and others that are totally unrelated to the style of bag but the sellers think those key words will help them sell their item.
You can't depend on sellers to know actual names or dates of manufacture.
@cedarwaxwing2015 wrote:She said her two other family members were coach collectors and had told her it had to be a fake. That was like 2 weeks before ebay did anything about it and by then I had already removed it, then did hours of research and relisted it as controversial and if you do not believe it then do not buy it.
Did you not read what I wrote above? You can't have disclaimers! You have to know what you're selling, know that it's as described and legitimate.
As for the family members who are "Coach collectors," they can't be trusted!
Also as I said above, anything connected to Eritrea is pure coincidence. The leather is not likely from there.
Like the others, I wondered why you were calling the stamp that says 232 on the inside bottom of this bag a "customs stamp" so I did some research.
It turns out that 232 is the Country Code for the country Eritrea according to ISO Standard 3166. More information about ISO 3166 and what it is used for (they don't mention anything about customs stamps):
Here is the entry for Eritrea:
With that out of the way, I agree with the others that this is probably NOT a "customs stamp". I think the number "232" has led you on a bit of a wild goose chase. I've never heard of a country putting a "customs stamp" on a designer purse, whether it was manufactured in that country or not, and if the experts on this board haven't heard about it, then it probably never happened.
I did see some hits in a google search about fish exported from Eritrea that were marked with the country code 232. I don't think you should extrapolate from that to designer purses though.
And definitely, customs would NOT put a stamp like this (in gold metallic) when the purse was carried across a border by a traveller. I have travelled quite a lot, and they put stamps in your passport, but not on your possessions. In my experience the stamps always use the name of the country, not a country code. The country code is used in the scannable part of a passport or immigration card, but not in the human-readable part.
I'm not an expert on Coach bags (far from it), but if they were ever manufactured in Eritrea, the experts here would know about it, and they don't appear to recognize that location.
I think it is much more likely that the stamp was from the leather manufacturer, and has nothing to do with Eritrea or any other country code. (As @fashionclubgurl suggested.)
I can understand why you called it a feed bag - the shape of it looks rather like a feed bag! (I like it 
).
However, if @albertabrightalberta and @fashionclubgurl say it's called a Duffel Sac, then I'm sure they are correct. They are very knowledgeable.
You should follow their advice on this. If I understand correctly, they are saying this is an authentic bag, and you should be able to list it. Hopefully, they will be able to tell you what you need to do (and not do) so it doesn't get red flagged (carded) again.
I think that posting incorrect and unverifiable claims about a designer item (like a customs stamp) is a big red flag, and definitely using an authenticity disclaimer is a violation in itself, even if the item in questions happens to be genuine, as this one appears to be.
@cedarwaxwing2015 wrote:So how and where do you get it professionally authenticated without any papers?
Papers aren't necessary for authentications and in fact, aren't even used. Papers, receipts, boxes and other removable props don't prove anything.
It's the details of the bag itself that prove whether the bag was made by Coach (and in this case it was) and an authenticator looks at the bag, construction, hardware, markings, stitching, etc.
The company I've used for authentications of several different brands of designer items is authenticate4u. I like that company because they use different authenticators for different brands, ie., they have brand specialists.
If you get documentation that the bag is authentic, you submit that to ebay and they'll tell you (in writing) whether you can relist the bag.
HOWEVER, early on, I asked what your takedown notice said because it might not be necessary to submit a professional authentication, thus you might not have to spend the money for it. Sometimes listings are removed because of certain wording in the listing, not enough pictures, or some other reason that simply indicates that the listing needs improvement.
Please post what the message said so we can advise you.
I started to respond to @cedarwaxwing2015 again and decided that the poster isn't listening to any of us and I'm done trying to help.
