Hi Snowbubble - Welcome to the forum. I don't think that Honeylicious and I were reacting strongly to the false fake Bal posts. Our concern was that reporting an authentic Bal as fake here before verifying that it is indeed fake may hurt the seller's reputation.
I've deleted the last couple of incorrectly reported listings. Please do not post listing items here unless you are 100% sure an item is fake. If you are not familiar enough with the brand, it's better to let others report. If you want to help out, then you can have a bag authenticated first in the ATB thread, then report fakes here once they've been looked at.
Thank you
Snowbubble, our comments have nothing against you as a newbie. Agree with littlerock and MAGJES, it's simply unfair to the seller and if her post get removed due to a falsely report. I've personally experienced that when my bag was authentic and it got removed by either the moderator / someone not familiar with the brand and suspected it was a counterfeit. I had to post up here ask for an authentication and attached that authentication to the website admins in order for them to re-post my listing. It's very upsetting and troublesome too.