Acually the "authenticate this" Advisors have no idea what they are talking about. One of them told me that the photos I showed were not authentic, but the photos that i showed them were taken by me of the birkin that i had just purchased at the hermes store in tokyo!
First, one of the authenticators was kind enough to answer you despite the fact that you would not follow the required posting format.
Second, you admitted in a post later edited that you had provided a link (to your own auction, not permitted) in order to try to trick the authenticators into making a wrong decision on your bag.
All of this aside, every bag must be looked at on its own merits. An authenticator cautiously said that she thought it might not be real. One image gave me pause as well.
Unless we are standing next to a seller when they buy the bag in a boutique, there is no way of truly assessing the truthfulness of any seller's claims of where a bag was bought, or even by whom. It really becomes imperative to base all authenticity work on the images, taken in the context of the other information about the seller.
When you joined the forum, you made a post with general birkin buying questions, including a question about buying from a nontraditional source.
Let me call attention to your very first post, in which you specifically talk about having a friend-of-a-friend in the area who sells bags, and where you ask about buying bags outside of boutiques:
hi everyone! sorry this reply does not have anything to do with your topic.. im new to tpf and do not know how to post anything! HELP! i am wondering how much a 35 birkin togo leather costs in canada? i am going to hongkong and apparently my friends friend buys and sells hermes bags.. and he is charging 12,200 $CND so i am just wondering what the price difference is.. what are your thoughts on buying a birkin not from the store?
From the information in this post alone it is clear that you have considered different sources for bags and are aware of non-boutique sources.
Whevever you say the bag comes from, it was assessed on the merits of the images.