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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
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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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#39,631
Item: Vintage white coach crossbody bag
Bag serial number: 0645 228
Seller: jbsellz_
Link: https://depop.app.link/9D6IOvoCKY

Sorry I don’t know what the listing number is...
But can someone help me authenticate this vintage coach bag that I found on Depop, please? I assume it was made in the 1980s. When I searched it online, nothing came up. The seller said his aunt bought it at the store, so I’m assuming around that time. I don’t know, any help is fine thanks!
 

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#39,632
Milleufele said:
Item : Coach Brown/black Sig City Zip Tote F36876


Listing number : 889532147199

Seller : -
Link : -

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Hi all, can someone advise me if this Sig City Zip Tote is indeed authentic? Thank you!
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I'm late to this listing (which seems to have been removed) but the pictures show fake props and tag.

I don't see that the seller's ID was posted, but the name shown on the receipt as the customer, James Vaias is one I remember seeing on the fakes from the Japanese sellers I'd posted about.

What was the seller's ID and does the seller have other listings?

@Milleufele, if you're the buyer, I'd return it.
 
#39,633
Hyacinth said:
FOR MY FELLOW AUTHENTICATORS-

Can anyone figure out why a third of the listings that show up when I search Ebay for "coach 36876" are for completely different styles? Is Ebay just re-naming any listing with the word "tote" in the description as a City Tote? Or is this their "suggested" title when someone lists anything as a tote? It's a bleedin' MESS, there are bags made over 10 years ago that are using that style number in the description!

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=coach+36876&_sacat=11450
and
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=coach+36876&_sacat=11450&rt=nc&LH_Complete=1

WTF is going on ???
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I think what's happening is that when a seller begins listing an item, she's using a tool ebay offers that fills in many of the fields as well as the item specifics.

I have no idea how they're finding that tool but I've seen it used a LOT!
 
#39,635
christinebun said:
Item: Vintage white coach crossbody bag
Bag serial number: 0645 228
Seller: jbsellz_
Link: https://depop.app.link/9D6IOvoCKY

Sorry I don’t know what the listing number is...
But can someone help me authenticate this vintage coach bag that I found on Depop, please? I assume it was made in the 1980s. When I searched it online, nothing came up. The seller said his aunt bought it at the store, so I’m assuming around that time. I don’t know, any help is fine thanks!
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It can't be authenticated without a picture of the creed. If authentic, this style isn't from the 80s.
 
#39,636
BeenBurned said:
I think what's happening is that when a seller begins listing an item, she's using a tool ebay offers that fills in many of the fields as well as the item specifics.

I have no idea how they're finding that tool but I've seen it used a LOT!
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If they're using it without even bothering to check and see if it's accurate, then they're damn fools. Unless of course Ebay doesn't give them any way of backing out of the tool or app once they start useing it, which wouldn't surprise me.
 
#39,637
christinebun said:
Item: Vintage white coach crossbody bag
Bag serial number: 0645 228
Seller: jbsellz_
Link: https://depop.app.link/9D6IOvoCKY

Sorry I don’t know what the listing number is...
But can someone help me authenticate this vintage coach bag that I found on Depop, please? I assume it was made in the 1980s. When I searched it online, nothing came up. The seller said his aunt bought it at the store, so I’m assuming around that time. I don’t know, any help is fine thanks!
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If the bag is in your possession, is there any way you can take a photo of the creed and serial number? That's one of the photos that we always need to see. I know it's a very narrow bag so if you can't get a camera far enough inside to get a photo, I understand. But it's the font and the stamping details that tell us if a creed and serial number are in a genuine bag, not just the numbers by themselves. If the seller still has the bag, we suggest that if you buy it, that you try and get a photo of the creed and serial number when you receive it and post it here using the Reply button in your original post, the one with the other photos.

It doesn't do any good to search Google or anywhere else for serial numbers in bags made before 1994 that are all numbers and no letters since those were unique to each individual bag and in genuine bags were only used ONCE. That's explained in the Salearea Coach Guides in the Creeds and Serial Numbers sections beginning with post 14:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/salearea-guides.983575/#post-32252957

It may be a genuine Scooter Bag, style 9893 but we've seen a few fakes of that style so it's hard to be completely sure without a creed and serial photo. Here's a photo of that style in the 2-tone Spectator version, if yours is genuine it would be from the early 1990s:

9893_Scooter Bag-hol91.jpg
 
#39,638
BeenBurned said:
I think what's happening is that when a seller begins listing an item, she's using a tool ebay offers that fills in many of the fields as well as the item specifics.

I have no idea how they're finding that tool but I've seen it used a LOT!
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Clicking on "Sell one like this" or "Have one to sell? Sell now" would do that.

Hyacinth said:
If they're using it without even bothering to check and see if it's accurate, then they're damn fools. Unless of course Ebay doesn't give them any way of backing out of the tool or app once they start useing it, which wouldn't surprise me.
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You can "Switch to business tool" from the copycat listing tool, but then you'd have to review and correct the pre-filled information. A pop-up box recommends that you not switch to the business tool if you're a new seller or just selling a few items.
 
#39,640
BeenBurned said:
That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. I figured it was something like that but I’ve never used it so wasn’t sure exactly how they found it. But I see it so often!
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Another one of Fleabay's brilliant ideas? I suppose they have to come up with some new and wonderful :graucho: "tools" to offer to their sellers to justify the constant increase in fees.

And once again, Fleabay proves that they could f*ck up a one-car funeral.
 
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