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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tealocean said:
Hi! Will you please let me know if this bag is authentic? Thank you! :smile:
Purchased this from Amazon.com Seller "OUTLET FOR LESS"
Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07627V5V8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Coach Glitter Small Christie Dark Teal
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I'm not comfortable enough with Amazon seller Outlet For Less Storefront.

In most of the seller's listings, images are stolen (from Coach) stock images as well as (sometimes) a few other pictures that "someone" took with their camera. But because the few pictures that are actual photos, I'm not sure of the source of those pictures. Photographing styles are different, pictures themselves have different backgrounds and without knowing that a seller shows actual pictures of the bags in her possession, there's no way of knowing what you'll receive.

I wouldn't buy from the seller.
 
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BeenBurned said:
I'm not comfortable enough with Amazon seller Outlet For Less Storefront.

In most of the seller's listings, images are stolen (from Coach) stock images as well as (sometimes) a few other pictures that "someone" took with their camera. But because the few pictures that are actual photos, I'm not sure of the source of those pictures. Photographing styles are different, pictures themselves have different backgrounds and without knowing that a seller shows actual pictures of the bags in her possession, there's no way of knowing what you'll receive.

I wouldn't buy from the seller.
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Thank you so much! Oh no! I already have the bag in hand. Those are pictures I took of the actual bag. Amazon is bothersome like that-they just have one picture that all the sellers use. Not actual pictures of what you're getting. Can you tell in the pictures if this is authentic? I missed this bag in the last FOS. It's a MFF Christie. Thank you for your help.
 
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BeenBurned said:
I'm not comfortable enough with Amazon seller Outlet For Less Storefront.

In most of the seller's listings, images are stolen (from Coach) stock images as well as (sometimes) a few other pictures that "someone" took with their camera. But because the few pictures that are actual photos, I'm not sure of the source of those pictures. Photographing styles are different, pictures themselves have different backgrounds and without knowing that a seller shows actual pictures of the bags in her possession, there's no way of knowing what you'll receive.

I wouldn't buy from the seller.
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Sblake said:
I’d really like to get other opinions on this bag. Is it real? I’m leaning towards yes but the broken thread on the creed throws me on a bag “that’s only been carried twice” help??
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Hoping I do this right. I’m not very online savvy so well see! I’m trying to authenticate this coach bag I recently purchased off poshmark. I believe it’s either really old or a knock off of an old one. The leather is very soft but none of the hardware is stamped with coach which most forums suggests it means a fake. Thanks so much for your help!!
 

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Sarahmb1985 said:
Hoping I do this right. I’m not very online savvy so well see! I’m trying to authenticate this coach bag I recently purchased off poshmark. I believe it’s either really old or a knock off of an old one. The leather is very soft but none of the hardware is stamped with coach which most forums suggests it means a fake. Thanks so much for your help!!
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I don't know what other forums you're referring to, but I really hope you'll mention the names here to give our members and readers a list of what forums to AVOID. Having "Coach" stamped on every piece of hardware does NOT prove something's genuine! In fact it's often a very good indication that the item is FAKE. Except for a few lines, usually travel and business bags and NOT handbags, the more times Coach is stamped on the hardware the MORE likely it is that the bag is fake. And it's absolute proof that something's fake when it's on handbags made before the mid to late 1990s, like the bag you're asking about! That's absolutely HORRIBLE advice, and I hope you're not basing any decisions on buying, selling or reporting Coach items on that awful information because you'd be making some very bad mistakes!

I can't tell what style your bag is since you didn't provide measurements or a full set of photos, but based strictly on the creed and serial number stampings it's absolutely genuine and made before 1988. Please please PLEASE stop reading or participating in whatever forums are passing out this so-called "advice" and let us know which ones they are so we can warn others. There are constant complaints here and at other forums about Coach and other brand name items being reported and removed from listings like Ebay's that have proved to be perfectly genuine items, and it could be places like the forums you mentioned that are one of the sources of these false reports that can seriously damage honest sellers' reputations and incomes.

We HATE fakes here at tPF but we hate people who pass out bad information almost as much - read the "signature" at the bottom of every one of my posts to see my opinion on the subject of bad advice by ignorant lazy "authenticity guide" writers and others.

BTW, just a Heads-up about Poshmark - they have NO effective system on their site for the reporting and removal of fakes, and members have often reported that when they receive a fake and it's actually confirmed fake by qualified outside authenticators, Poshmark fights fiercely AGAINST refunding the buyers' money. For that reason we recommend against buying from them.

And Welcome to tPF! We hope you'll stay and take advantage of the GOOD advice available here. Please have any Coach purchases you're thinking about authenticated here BEFORE you buy. The requirements for Authentication requests are in Post Number One of this thread.
 
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#27,656
Cate103 said:
Hello again, just one more I’ve found, I haven’t seen this style before. Thanks so much!

Item: vintage coach crossover flap
Listing number: N/A
Seller: Etsy- IslandChick Designs
Link: https://www.etsy.com/listing/538026...8026529/vintage-coach-crossover-shoulder-flap
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For one thing, it's NOT a Bonnie Cashin design. In fact it wasn't made or even introduced until twenty years AFTER Cashin and Coach parted company. Many sellers are either clueless or sometimes just plain untruthful when they claim their Coaches are Cashin styles or from her era.

It IS a genuine and vintage Ritchie Bag made in 1995.
 
#27,658
Sblake said:
I’d really like to get other opinions on this bag. Is it real? I’m leaning towards yes but the broken thread on the creed throws me on a bag “that’s only been carried twice” help??
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Or maybe the seller is lying about how many times it was carried? And even on genuine Coaches, threads sometimes work loose or get snagged on something like a piece of jewelry. I see what looks like a scrape in the leather patch just above the torn thread.

It looks ok to me but wait for more opinions.
 
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Sblake said:
I’d really like to get other opinions on this bag. Is it real? I’m leaning towards yes but the broken thread on the creed throws me on a bag “that’s only been carried twice” help??
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Not commenting on authenticity, but on the "only been carried twice" claim.

Some people are hard on bags, but the darkening of the leather on the handles looks to me like it was carried more than twice. Either that, or the person wore lots of hand lotion, on warm humid day, on a crowded commuter train, round trip from Kenosha to downtown Chicago...twice.
 
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