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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:
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  • 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.
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#2,701
BeenBurned said:
Before you decide to do business with station_85, you might want to check her feedback history:

http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=station_85&Dirn=Received+by&ref=home
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Going to chime in here, although i may live to regret it.

BB, i have great respect for you, Hyacinth, and Whateve. You provide an invaluable service to this community, using your own time and resources to do so. Am in awe of your combined knowledge.

That said, a comment on buying:

I have purchased from station_85. Have always gotten what i paid for--used bags, thoroughly described and pictorially documented.

Read through the toolhaus reviews. Lots of " it looked bigger in the pictures" or "color was different". Relatively few negs from high fb users.

If someone chooses to buy from a high volume retailer of used merchandise,
thereby choosing to pay whatever they pay, without checking pics, reading descriptions, what is a seller is to do? This one evidently offers full refunds on returns too. And doesn't seem to be selling fake?

Would seem obvious that such a high volume seller is unlikely to be offering fabulous deals on like new merchandise. It's used. It's old, or older. It's going cheap. Unless it's overbid.

Does anyone really expect immaculate, like-new from a thrift shop? More than occasionally, anyway?

It's this type of feedback, with its associated hits to a seller's account, which keeps me--

--and will keep me, barring a major-- (and highly unlikely)-- change in ebay's treatment of sellers, from ever selling there.

Having said that I'll add that i am sure some sellers do it better. But no seller seems safe from ignorant and/or malicious buyer behavior.

I have no connection, other than that of a past buyer, with station_85.

Again, with much respect and appreciation for you!
 
#2,703
lonesomeoctober said:
Going to chime in here, although i may live to regret it.

BB, i have great respect for you, Hyacinth, and Whateve. You provide an invaluable service to this community, using your own time and resources to do so. Am in awe of your combined knowledge.

That said, a comment on buying:

I have purchased from station_85. Have always gotten what i paid for--used bags, thoroughly described and pictorially documented.

Read through the toolhaus reviews. Lots of " it looked bigger in the pictures" or "color was different". Relatively few negs from high fb users.

If someone chooses to buy from a high volume retailer of used merchandise,
thereby choosing to pay whatever they pay, without checking pics, reading descriptions, what is a seller is to do? This one evidently offers full refunds on returns too. And doesn't seem to be selling fake?

Would seem obvious that such a high volume seller is unlikely to be offering fabulous deals on like new merchandise. It's used. It's old, or older. It's going cheap. Unless it's overbid.

Does anyone really expect immaculate, like-new from a thrift shop? More than occasionally, anyway?

It's this type of feedback, with its associated hits to a seller's account, which keeps me--

--and will keep me, barring a major-- (and highly unlikely)-- change in ebay's treatment of sellers, from ever selling there.

Having said that I'll add that i am sure some sellers do it better. But no seller seems safe from ignorant and/or malicious buyer behavior.

I have no connection, other than that of a past buyer, with station_85.

Again, with much respect and appreciation for you!
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I'm not the least bit offended but I will comment.

I know and understand that when buying a preowned bag, you aren't going to get a new one. I get it! But I do expect that a seller would be honest in her depiction of the bag and its condition.

There are, indeed many buyers who don't look at measurements, don't read descriptions nor look at pictures carefully. Those buyers certainly should have done their own due diligence in learning about their potential purchase. In cases like, "I thought the bag was bigger than it is" when measurements were shown, or "I thought it would be a brown bag" when the description stated that it was black, those buyers are at fault.

However, in this case with this seller, it's known that she doesn't accurately describe her items. Many of her bags have been polished, waxed, dyed or otherwise send in a condition that isn't original to the bag nor disclosed that it was "rehabbed." And that's the type of feedback comment that you'll see many of.

And for the record, although she's a seller who sells enough Coach that she should know the obvious red flags of fakes or she should authenticate her items.

My own records indicate that I reported a fake in August, 2013 for a fake Coach bag with an always-fake serial number. There have been other fakes posted in the Coach subforum.

Others also comment on her inaccurate and/or embellished descriptions of condition:
http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-shopping/authenticate-this-coach-818914-84.html#post24816229

http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-shopping/authenticate-this-coach-694619-317.html#post20505602

http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-shopping/authenticate-this-coach-818914-416.html#post25462527



I'm glad you've had good experiences with her but when a seller has as many unhappy buyers as this one, there's a problem with the seller, IMHO.
 
#2,707
snowstars695 said:
Please help to authenticate!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sale-Half-O...0fd49b&pid=100011&rk=1&rkt=10&sd=251863866089

Item: Sale Half Off Rare Vintage Leather Coach Handbag Chestnut
Seller: roxann57
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Wait for other opinions but I do think the bag is okay.

Her comment about the bag being authentic or ebay would pull it is BS. Does she realize how many fakes are listed and successfully sold?

In fact, roxann57 sold a fake Dooney, soon to be reported!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Doo...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
 
#2,708
Good evening everyone. Could you authenticate these for me?

#1
Description: Rambler's Legacy
Seller: Shopgoodwill.com
Item number 20292645
Link: http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=20292645

#2
Description: Coach Cross Body Purse
Seller: Shopgoodwill.com
Item number 20299069
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=20299069

#3
Description: Vintage Coach Abbie Black Leather Cross Body
Seller: Shopgoodwill.com
Item Number: 20360148
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions/Vintage-Coach-Abbie-Black-Leather-Cross-Body-Bag-20360148.html

Thank you in advance!
 
#2,712
grammysfinds said:
Good evening everyone. Could you authenticate these for me?

#1
Description: Rambler's Legacy
Seller: Shopgoodwill.com
Item number 20292645
Link: http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=20292645

#2
Description: Coach Cross Body Purse
Seller: Shopgoodwill.com
Item number 20299069
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=20299069

#3
Description: Vintage Coach Abbie Black Leather Cross Body
Seller: Shopgoodwill.com
Item Number: 20360148
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions/Vintage-Coach-Abbie-Black-Leather-Cross-Body-Bag-20360148.html

Thank you in advance!
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All three look ok
 
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