Authenticate This COACH - **see first post for format**

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IMPORTANT READ-ME

Please post authenticity questions related to COACH in this thread. No PMs please.
For further information, please refer to the first post on page 1 of this thread.

Please follow the following requests:
  • Before you submit a request for authentication, please search this thread to make sure that the item has not previously been authenticated by searching the seller ID and/or item number. This is not a thread to ask general questions about COACH, please refer to our main Coach forum for such information.
  • Note that authenticators have the right to refuse any requests. This is a free service, but it is imperative that you help our authenticators by using the following format:
  • FOR ITEMS LISTED ONLINE:
    Item:
    Listing number:
    Seller and site where listed
    Link:
    Comments:

  • FOR ITEMS NOT LISTED ONLINE:
    Item:
    Where purchased or how obtained
    Comments:
BASIC PICTURES REQUIRED (but more may be requested): If necessary pictures are in the listing, it's not necessary to upload and duplicate them.
  • Front of item
  • Back of item
  • Full clear and legible creed text and serial number
  • Made in tags (when available)
  • Measurements
  • For bags with turnlock closures, show pictures of back of female side of turnlock
  • For bags with magnetic snaps, show pictures of the male part of the snap so that the numbers and letters on it can be read
  • If applicable, search interior of bag and/or pockets for small white tag with production information and include a picture of that.
Thank you and be safe!
 
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#24,722
Belicious said:
This is a fake Willis with its fat font serial number, wrong number, right?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-Handb...755756?hash=item212de2bfec:g:yPoAAOSwVgZZthG5
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Hyacinth said:
Yes, the serial number is a known fake and is on the "List"
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Fake-Coach-Serial-Numbers-NT-4903-and-more-/10000000002744619/g.html

and there are other things wrong with it too including a creed misspelling.
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Be sure to include seller's ID when posting requests.

This is not the first (or even the second) time I've reported listings of fakes from seller
tinastokens.

ETA: Here's a previous post:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/authenticate-this-coach.889527/page-1164#post-30660626
 
#24,723

whateve said:
It's fake. That is a known fake number and the font is too thick. There are misspellings in the creed. It is illegal to sell fakes so make sure they give you a refund. I'm surprised they sold it. When I asked at my Plato's Closet a few years ago, they wouldn't accept Coach unless it had tags.
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For Nubian1535

And it's a good example of those "elephant-skin wrinkles" or stretch marks that are sometimes found on older fakes and that are probably due to the fakers overstretching or overprocessing their leathers to try and make them more like genuine Coach glove-tanned cowhide. That bag has wrinkles where it should never have all over the right side of the flap..

A genuine Coach will sometimes develop stretch marks but only in places where the leather is actually stressed in regular usage such as bottom corners or the top edge of a flap bag that shows parallel wrinkles from the bag constantly being opened and closed. Here's what we mean by elephant-skin or stretch marks on the bag you bought, click on the thumbnail - these are NOT normal.

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#24,724
Hyacinth said:
For Nubian1535

And it's a good example of those "elephant-skin wrinkles" or stretch marks that are sometimes found on older fakes and that are probably due to the fakers overstretching or overprocessing their leathers to try and make them more like genuine Coach glove-tanned cowhide. That bag has wrinkles where it should never have all over the right side of the flap..

A genuine Coach will sometimes develop stretch marks but only in places where the leather is actually stressed in regular usage such as bottom corners or the top edge of a flap bag that shows parallel wrinkles from the bag constantly being opened and closed. Here's what we mean by elephant-skin or stretch marks on the bag you bought, click on the thumbnail - these are NOT normal.

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Thanks you guys so much. I should have know it was fake because I've been buying old coach bags and this is the 1st time i saw that bag and within weeks of seeing it I purchased 2. Both have been returned. Thanks again for all the help you provide.
 
#24,725
Hyacinth said:
It looks genuine to me. Several posts here at tPF call it a Chelsea Flagship Dowel Flap Bag. One of the posts mentions an orange-red color called Curry.
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Thank you Hyacinth for your opinion and the extra info you provided.
I'm going to have to ask how to multi quote so my original post asking about the bag shows up too. I can do it on other forums...this one I'm clueless about.
 
#24,726
ZSP said:
I'm going to have to ask how to multi quote so my original post asking about the bag shows up too. I can do it on other forums...this one I'm clueless about.
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To multiquote, click on the + QUOTE button in each post you want to quote. Once you're done, go to the bottom of the page to the reply box. Click "insert quotes" then you can type your reply under the quotes.
 
#24,735
ZSP said:
Thank you Hyacinth for your opinion and the extra info you provided.
I'm going to have to ask how to multi quote so my original post asking about the bag shows up too. I can do it on other forums...this one I'm clueless about.
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BeenBurned said:
To multiquote, click on the + QUOTE button in each post you want to quote. Once you're done, go to the bottom of the page to the reply box. Click "insert quotes" then you can type your reply under the quotes.
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Thank you Hyacinth and BeenBurned. Easy enough. Yay...it works
 
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