Originally Posted by
thatgurl
The keyfob looks ok to me, however, I'd want someone else to 2nd me. I even question some of the ones I see in the outlet b/c they look so....off sometimes, kwim?
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Originally Posted by pearbeary18
Thanks.  I just wasn't sure b/c the pictures are slightly blurry. But then I just thought, "Why would they go to the trouble of counterfeiting a keyfob?"
The ones at my outlet look okay to me but most have been the metal kind, not leather.
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Coach's quality control isn't what it used to be, but if you buy one at the outlet you can assume it's real.
Not so long ago at least 90 percent of the Coach keychains on
eBay were fakes, now it's down to maybe 50 or 60 percent but that goes a lot higher if the sellers are not located in the US since Ebay US is finally starting to crack down on some of the fakes sellers.
As to why they would counterfeit one? Because they can crank them out in the thousands for less than a dollar US each and wholesale them to distributors and
eBay sellers for 3 dollars each, who then sell them to gullible buyers on Ebay, iOffer and Amazon and a hundred other websites for 10 or 15 dollars each. Shipping costs are minimal and are almost pure profit, and if someone finally figures out that their ten dollar keychain doean't look like the ones in the Coach stores they're probably not going to raise much of a fuss, they'll just let the seller get away with it.
I just hope that all the buyers of those pieces of junk, especially the metal ones, keep them away from their kids and wash their hands after using them - those things are probably loaded with lead, both in the paints and the metals.