I am finding that I am already influenced by my own post.
There are a set of reseller sites I cruise every day. As I shopped before, I never cared about the bag's age--just the condition. Now I am finding the date is the first thing I look at is the date code. And it is amazing in so many pictures of blind stamps, you can't read the date code.:?:
There are certain sellers that I typically don't pay any attention to because their prices are so criminal. Now I find that I am writing-off those same bags for a different reason--they are too new!
It will be very interesting to see if there is a new wave of "fake fear" that causes reseller sales to fall and reseller prices to fall as an attempt to boost bag sales. I am guessing that the people who buy at the criminal prices are people who don't bother to research. Knowledge of this fake issue may never reach them. And if it does, they may not care.