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

[Vlad]

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!

 

[BeenBurned]

Good afternoon. Could someone authenticate this Coach on EBay. I usually buy Rebecca Minkoff but this Bleeker caught my eye. Sorry if this isn’t in the correct format.

Thanks for any help!

Wrong format. We don't want screenshots of the listing:
COACH 11423 BLEECKER HAND BURNISHED HOT PINK LEATHER XL DUFFLE BAG PURSE EUC!
Seller tonijones1234
item 182952173644
https://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-1142...-LEATHER-XL-DUFFLE-BAG-PURSE-EUC/182952173644

It's authentic from 2007.

 

[Hyacinth]

If it's genuine, there are NO others like it. If fake, it's a "close" one. Personally, there are enough questions in my mind that if I bought it, I'd return because I don't believe authenticity can be proven. And I spent a lot of time trying to determine whether it could possibly be genuine.

My concerns:
1. Tag has incorrect color listed
2. Tag has incorrect style name
3. made in tag doesn't have "dot" for a MFF item
4. white tag format/font doesn't look right
5. creed isn't stamped in gold
6. Can't find another bag with "61" as the plant code. I don't believe 61 is a valid Chinese plant code.

I agree about all those points especially the plant code, "61" isn't in my files at all from any country. And sites hosted on Taobao have been widely known to sell fakes.

 

[whateve]

Good afternoon. Could someone authenticate this Coach on EBay. I usually buy Rebecca Minkoff but this Bleeker caught my eye. Sorry if this isn’t in the correct format.

Thanks for any help!

In the future, please include a link to the listing and the item number. Here is the link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Satc...656935?hash=item5202860967:g:9fMAAOSwB4BaKvgw
The seller is tonijones1234
The bag is authentic.

 

[Haughty]

Wrong format. We don't want screenshots of the listing:
COACH 11423 BLEECKER HAND BURNISHED HOT PINK LEATHER XL DUFFLE BAG PURSE EUC!
Seller tonijones1234
item 182952173644
https://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-1142...-LEATHER-XL-DUFFLE-BAG-PURSE-EUC/182952173644

It's authentic from 2007.

Thank you, Been Burned. I realized as soon as I posted it that probably would not work for authentication but wasn’t sure how to change it.

YOU ROCK!!

 

[Haughty]

In the future, please include a link to the listing and the item number. Here is the link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Satc...656935?hash=item5202860967:g:9fMAAOSwB4BaKvgw
The seller is tonijones1234
The bag is authentic.

And thank you also, whatever. I will certainly do that next time!

 

[Jessmn]

I have no idea of the type of seller 620jean and whether she actually has the items in hand. But as a seller of as many Coach items as she has and someone who's been around as long as she has, she should know the importance of doing her own work to show her actual items.

Authenticators who aren't only helping buyers but are helping sellers too aren't happy to have to spend a lot of time figuring out which (if any) pictures are her own, which are stock photos and which might have been stolen from other sources.

I'm sure you'll find another rogue from a seller who takes her own pictures and does her own work.

*Stepping off my soapbox.....*

I completely understand that it's frustrating to be an authenticator for the sellers, too - they should be making all the effort to prove authenticity in the first place. With regards to this bag, I requested pics from the seller - this is what she sent me. Does this help at all? Thanks for your time.

 

[gmgoyke64]

Can you help me authenticate this one please? Thanks!

Stewardess Bag
Found thrifting!
L= 10 inches W= 4.25 inches H=8-8.25 inches

 

[whateve]

Can you help me authenticate this one please? Thanks!

Stewardess Bag
Found thrifting!
L= 10 inches W= 4.25 inches H=8-8.25 inches

This one is fake.

 

[gmgoyke64]

This one is fake.

Then I don't have to feel bad about getting ink all over it! I'll be destroying it! Thanks!

 

[gmgoyke64]

Alright I'm down to my final 2. Thanks everyone! This forum rocks!

Legacy Flap? It's very hard to see the stamp in a photo as it seems to be worn away...it was hard to get a good photo. It's easier to see in person.
Dimensions L= 6.75 inches W= 3 inches H=6.75-7 inches

 

[whateve]

Alright I'm down to my final 2. Thanks everyone! This forum rocks!

Legacy Flap? It's very hard to see the stamp in a photo as it seems to be worn away...it was hard to get a good photo. It's easier to see in person.
Dimensions L= 6.75 inches W= 3 inches H=6.75-7 inches

Authentic Companion Bag from 1999.

 

[BeenBurned]

Then I don't have to feel bad about getting ink all over it! I'll be destroying it! Thanks!

Why can't or don't you return it? It was illegal for them to sell it in the first place.

 

[BeenBurned]

I completely understand that it's frustrating to be an authenticator for the sellers, too - they should be making all the effort to prove authenticity in the first place. With regards to this bag, I requested pics from the seller - this is what she sent me. Does this help at all? Thanks for your time.
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The pictures she sent you show an authentic bag. (Those pictures as well as a few others needed for authentications should be in EVERY one of her listings. And if you're her buyer, I'd recommend giving that constructive criticism to the seller!)

 

[Jynny]

I agree about all those points especially the plant code, "61" isn't in my files at all from any country. And sites hosted on Taobao have been widely known to sell fakes.

Noted, thank you so much @BeenBurned and @Hyacinth !

 

[Jessmn]

The pictures she sent you show an authentic bag. (Those pictures as well as a few others needed for authentications should be in EVERY one of her listings. And if you're her buyer, I'd recommend giving that constructive criticism to the seller!)

May I ask you one more question? What do you think about the stitch here?