Hello ladies,
I apologize in advance if this question is out of line or not in accordance with the rules (although I didnt see anything in the rules about it).
My wife has asked me for a Coach handbag for our 6 year anniversary coming up this weekend. She wants the MIA Braided Leather Satchel in Brass/Tobacco finish. Style number 10048.
Now, I just looked this bag up on the Coach site and have to say, I was a bit taken aback by the $428 price tag. Its hard for me (a dumb guy) to justify laying out that kind of cash for a purse (assuming it doesnt come with 4 one-hundred dollar bills in it).
So, my question is is there anywhere I can get this bag cheaper? I looked on eBay and they seem more expensive there ($438). Are there any deals to be had? Is there anywhere (and this is the part that Im a bit hesitant to ask) that I can get a knock-off or replica? I live outside NYC and am considering looking for one from one of those sidewalk guys, but I dont know if they have bags that are made to look like current styles or last years or whatever.
Now, I know everything is relative and that $428 may not seem like that much. I admit to being a cheap, penny-pinching, insensitive, scum-sucking heel of a husband. I belong to several collecting-based web communities, and I know that expensive collectibles are often faked, and that collectors of authentic items are sensitive to an outsider coming in asking about how to obtain fakes (creating a market for fake items that might one day try to be passed onto them). If someone came to one of the guitar collecting forums I belong to and asked how to get a fake Stratocaster, he would be run out of town. If thats my fate here, I accept that and humbly apologize.
If, however, someone could point me to anywhere where I could get this bag cheaper than $428, I would really appreciate it. If not a knock-off, then maybe there is a secret you could share as to acquiring an authentic example at some kind of discount. You would make the mother of my children a very happy woman.
Thanks in advance,
dg
I apologize in advance if this question is out of line or not in accordance with the rules (although I didnt see anything in the rules about it).
My wife has asked me for a Coach handbag for our 6 year anniversary coming up this weekend. She wants the MIA Braided Leather Satchel in Brass/Tobacco finish. Style number 10048.
Now, I just looked this bag up on the Coach site and have to say, I was a bit taken aback by the $428 price tag. Its hard for me (a dumb guy) to justify laying out that kind of cash for a purse (assuming it doesnt come with 4 one-hundred dollar bills in it).
So, my question is is there anywhere I can get this bag cheaper? I looked on eBay and they seem more expensive there ($438). Are there any deals to be had? Is there anywhere (and this is the part that Im a bit hesitant to ask) that I can get a knock-off or replica? I live outside NYC and am considering looking for one from one of those sidewalk guys, but I dont know if they have bags that are made to look like current styles or last years or whatever.
Now, I know everything is relative and that $428 may not seem like that much. I admit to being a cheap, penny-pinching, insensitive, scum-sucking heel of a husband. I belong to several collecting-based web communities, and I know that expensive collectibles are often faked, and that collectors of authentic items are sensitive to an outsider coming in asking about how to obtain fakes (creating a market for fake items that might one day try to be passed onto them). If someone came to one of the guitar collecting forums I belong to and asked how to get a fake Stratocaster, he would be run out of town. If thats my fate here, I accept that and humbly apologize.
If, however, someone could point me to anywhere where I could get this bag cheaper than $428, I would really appreciate it. If not a knock-off, then maybe there is a secret you could share as to acquiring an authentic example at some kind of discount. You would make the mother of my children a very happy woman.
Thanks in advance,
dg