Authenticate This Balenciaga

Vlad · Apr 9, 2020

IMPORTANT READ-ME

Please see post #1 for complete Balenciaga authentication rules. All requests must be posted in this thread. Authentications are not done via private message or in any other thread.

See the link below for examples of the photos needed and the format they should be in (clear, close up, forward-facing, no angles, right way up, no bends in tags).

https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/required-pics-for-balenciaga-authentication.741442/

A link to the listing in question is required.

It is an authenticator’s right to ignore a request that is not in the proper format. If the listing you are interested in is missing photos it is your responsibility to request them from the seller prior to posting in this thread.

Thanks and be well!

Gitte Skov · Nov 23, 2017

Can anyone help me, and tell if this Balenciaga City is fake or not, thanks

muchstuff · Nov 23, 2017

Gitte Skov said:
Can anyone help me, and tell if this Balenciaga City is fake or not, thanks

There seems to be some glitches on tPF can you repost, there are no photos.

crystalolol · Nov 24, 2017

Hihi

Would really appreciate if you could authenticate this bag!

Thank you!

Item name: Balenciaga Classic City Metallic Edge in Natural

Photos under this link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d6bPIZ_MSwyZdVMtoeop5I70SZFfK1A9?usp=sharing
(sorry the photos are too large to be embedded here!)

tabolove26 · Nov 24, 2017

Hello Balenciaga Experts,
Good morning. Happy after Thanksgiving Day! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.
I purchase this bag and just received it couple days ago. However, I noticed that the color on the product card of which the bag comes with from Neiman Marcus is different. Therefore, I will love to have your help to look at the bag and help me with its authenticity. Please help. Thank you so much!

cbarrus · Nov 24, 2017

crystalolol said:
Hihi

Would really appreciate if you could authenticate this bag!

Thank you!

Item name: Balenciaga Classic City Metallic Edge in Natural

Photos under this link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d6bPIZ_MSwyZdVMtoeop5I70SZFfK1A9?usp=sharing
(sorry the photos are too large to be embedded here!)

Authentic, in my opinion.

cbarrus · Nov 24, 2017

tabolove26 said:
Hello Balenciaga Experts,
Good morning. Happy after Thanksgiving Day! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.
I purchase this bag and just received it couple days ago. However, I noticed that the color on the product card of which the bag comes with from Neiman Marcus is different. Therefore, I will love to have your help to look at the bag and help me with its authenticity. Please help. Thank you so much!

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This is authentic in my opinion. Tags do get mixed up especially in the larger department stores. To be honest, I rarely look at the cards as the bag tells the story.

tabolove26 · Nov 24, 2017

cbarrus said:
This is authentic in my opinion. Tags do get mixed up especially in the larger department stores. To be honest, I rarely look at the cards as the bag tells the story.

Hello Cbarrus,
Thank you so much! I am so thrilled to hear that it is authentic. I will be happy having the bag in my arm tonight.

missyb · Nov 24, 2017

tabolove26 said:
Hello Balenciaga Experts,
Good morning. Happy after Thanksgiving Day! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.
I purchase this bag and just received it couple days ago. However, I noticed that the color on the product card of which the bag comes with from Neiman Marcus is different. Therefore, I will love to have your help to look at the bag and help me with its authenticity. Please help. Thank you so much!

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This bag I bought and returned from barneys sale in July. Neimans had it on sale than put it back to full price.

crystalolol · Nov 24, 2017

cbarrus said:
Authentic, in my opinion.

Ah I am so relieved. Thanks for all the good work that all you authenticators do!

I have a question.. If there is a foldover of the leather on the bag strap, does that mean it is not authentic?

ksuromax · Nov 25, 2017

jang2519 said:
Hi Bal experts.

Please could you authentucate this Bal hip bag for me? I won it from ebay - kind of last minute decision so didn't get to check with you guys first.
Name: Balenciaga Hip genuine peach iridescent leather bag
Seller: ezabuk
Item id: 162745591369
link https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/162745591369

I have also added some photos. If these are not enough, please let me know as I'm not sure what is required for a Hip bag.

Thank you very much.

jang2519 said:
Hope these are OK. If not, please let me know. Thank you very much xx

hi, sorry, site had some issues with pictures, and we could not see some of them to respond to you earlier.
It looks ok, seems to be from a limited metallic edition from 2013. Enjoy!

cbarrus · Nov 25, 2017

crystalolol said:
Ah I am so relieved. Thanks for all the good work that all you authenticators do!

I have a question.. If there is a foldover of the leather on the bag strap, does that mean it is not authentic?
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I see what you mean. Although I still think the bag is okay, where did you purchase it if you don't mind saying.

crystalolol · Nov 25, 2017

cbarrus said:
I see what you mean. Although I still think the bag is okay, where did you purchase it if you don't mind saying.

Thanks for the response

I purchased it from a local (in Singapore) seller on an e-commerce who claims to obtain their good from European distributors. They do invite their buyers to verify their goods at brand boutiques and are open to more information on authenticity checks.

In some past posts I noticed that very few Bbags have this "foldover" of leather, but I am not versed at all in Bbags (it's my first one after all! ><)

cbarrus · Nov 25, 2017

crystalolol said:
Thanks for the response

I purchased it from a local (in Singapore) seller on an e-commerce who claims to obtain their good from European distributors. They do invite their buyers to verify their goods at brand boutiques and are open to more information on authenticity checks.

In some past posts I noticed that very few Bbags have this "foldover" of leather, but I am not versed at all in Bbags (it's my first one after all! ><)

I would not be familiar with that e-commerce site unless you post a link perhaps. All the other markers for your bag look good to me. However, if the seller is easy to work with, it may be worthwhile to ask them about the strap. I did ask another authenticator who says she has had bags with that but does not have a Metal Edge bag to compare, nor do I. I would ask your seller or wait and see if someone on here has another opinion.

oogiewoogie · Nov 25, 2017

I’ve been out of the game for awhile and I need help authenticating this black city [emoji4]. The tags have changed from the early 2000’s and I’m at a loss lol. Thanks for the help in advance!