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.
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• FOR ITEMS LISTED ONLINE:
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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.

Thank you and be safe!

 

[BeenBurned]

Interesting... Ebay is not allowing me to report this item and says "contact customer service". Once at CS there's no link for reporting a counterfeit item. Perhaps someone else has already reported this fake and it is being processed.

It's apparently been removed. I'm getting the "We looked everywhere..."page.

Is this what you're seeing @LadaZuri? I get it intermittently only on Safari but not on Chrome. Try a different browser.

 

[Hyacinth]

Is this what you're seeing @LadaZuri? I get it intermittently only on Safari but not on Chrome. Try a different browser.
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It's strange, I sometimes get the same message (using Chrome) when I try to report, but then if I sign out and sign in again I can report with no problems and don't get any "We looked everywhere" page either.

 

[Birdie13]

It's fine.

Thank you @BeenBurned

 

[LadaZuri]

Is this what you're seeing @LadaZuri? I get it intermittently only on Safari but not on Chrome. Try a different browser.
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Yes that was the message I saw and I was using chrome.

It's strange, I sometimes get the same message (using Chrome) when I try to report, but then if I sign out and sign in again I can report with no problems and don't get any "We looked everywhere" page either.

That's interesting... I was wondering if Ebay blocked further reports on the same item while they processed the initial report?

 

[Pursehoarder2025]

Hi! I picked this up at a second hand store for $5 but I think it’s fake because the heat stamp looks wrong to me I’m not 100% sure though.... could anyone confirm one way or another? Thank you so much!

 

[americandreaming]

nvm, no longer interested in buying

 

[BeenBurned]

Yes that was the message I saw and I was using chrome.



That's interesting... I was wondering if Ebay blocked further reports on the same item while they processed the initial report?

I don't think that's the case because when I get the error message, I simply switch browsers and report on the different browser. It goes through on the new attempt on the different browser.

I suspect it's just another ebay glitch.

 

[BeenBurned]

Hi! I picked this up at a second hand store for $5 but I think it’s fake because the heat stamp looks wrong to me I’m not 100% sure though.... could anyone confirm one way or another? Thank you so much!

It's fake although the serial font is very close to the genuine W plant font. The W plant is a Chinese plant but your fake states that it's US made.

In fact, I have in my records a side by side comparison of a fake vs. authentic G3W prefix bag. Your bag has the same font and country mistake as my comp. (I'm lazy and didn't prepare the same comparison with your bag.)

 

[Pursehoarder2025]

It's fake although the serial font is very close to the genuine W plant font. The W plant is a Chinese plant but your fake states that it's US made.

In fact, I have in my records a side by side comparison of a fake vs. authentic G3W prefix bag. Your bag has the same font and country mistake as my comp. (I'm lazy and didn't prepare the same comparison with your bag.)

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Thought so, thank you so much!!!

 

[ConnieinSeattle]

Does this look like a "real" Coach bag? The lining seems kind of plain, and I don't see an item number badge. https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/121781974 "Coach Coral Leather Tote Purse" I did some research and can't find anything like it. I did find a 2012 coach bag with a similar cut out handle. Didn't have time to ask you all, so I went ahead and bought it! On the off chance it's something rare and authentic and cool. Thanks for any insight.

 

[BeenBurned]

Does this look like a "real" Coach bag? The lining seems kind of plain, and I don't see an item number badge. https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/121781974 "Coach Coral Leather Tote Purse"View attachment 5089778 I did some research and can't find anything like it. I did find a 2012 coach bag with a similar cut out handle. Didn't have time to ask you all, so I went ahead and bought it! On the off chance it's something rare and authentic and cool. Thanks for any insight.

We need more pictures that aren't shown in the listing.

1. made in tag, probably sewn into an interior side seam
2. white label with production info- 2 rows of numbers and letters. You may have to feel around carefully inside a pocket, possibly turning the pocket inside out to read and photograph it.

 

[ConnieinSeattle]

We need more pictures that aren't shown in the listing.

1. made in tag, probably sewn into an interior side seam
2. white label with production info- 2 rows of numbers and letters. You may have to feel around carefully inside a pocket, possibly turning the pocket inside out to read and photograph it.

Thanks! When it arrives, I'll give it a thorough go over and photograph and share the pics then!

 

[Narnanz]

Thought so, thank you so much!!!

If you cant return it...if the creed can be cut off such as being on a pocket...do that...your still have a leather bag you can use. Just remove any Coach markings.

 

[Tiggerhawk]

Ok friends, it’s time to bring this bag out for discussion.
Item: 9145 Legacy Studio Flap
Seller: melindahartness on Posh
Listing: https://posh.mk/DtlPp43osgb

Comments: Looks good, right?

Backstory: bought to rehab and take to a Coach store to get decorated with a few pins. Store didn’t have all that I wanted, but said they’d order them in, do it up, and ship it back within the week. Ten days later, store called me, says this bag is not authentic, but cannot elaborate as to the specifics, just inconsistencies.

here are some additional pictures
Creed
Creed, zoomed
Zipper
Magnetic snap parts and housing
Pocket
Buckle hardware, multiple views
Hangtag
Strap ends (I do see some potential shoddy seam allowances here)

 

[Hyacinth]

Ok friends, it’s time to bring this bag out for discussion.
Item: 9145 Legacy Studio Flap
Seller: melindahartness on Posh
Listing: https://posh.mk/DtlPp43osgb

Comments: Looks good, right?

Backstory: bought to rehab and take to a Coach store to get decorated with a few pins. Store didn’t have all that I wanted, but said they’d order them in, do it up, and ship it back within the week. Ten days later, store called me, says this bag is not authentic, but cannot elaborate as to the specifics, just inconsistencies.

here are some additional pictures
Creed
Creed, zoomed
Zipper
Magnetic snap parts and housing
Pocket
Buckle hardware, multiple views
Hangtag
Strap ends (I do see some potential shoddy seam allowances here)

It's an absolutely genuine Legacy Medium Studio Flap from the Costa Rica plant made in 2000. The serial number font is exactly right and matches every other genuine example in my files, and it has a detail on the magnetic snap NEVER found on fakes.

Here are a few more examples of Costa Rica creeds from that time period 1999-2002. Please tell the "Coach people" that I've been authenticating here at tPF and also on Ebay since about 2005. My current post count here at tPF is 30,369, most of those are Coach authentications.

Please also point out to them not only the VERY distinctive font used in the style number (especially the '9's), but also the simple fact that ALL OF THESE EXAMPLES EXCEPT ONE ALSO HAVE COACH OUTLET STAMPS!








ETA - also a quich Search of Ebay found SIX additional examples just from 2000 using the Search parameters "coach 0P" (coach zero P) to specify examples from any month, with a year code of ZERO for 2000 and a plant code 'P' for Costa Rica:

Coach 0P in Clothing, Shoes & Accessories for sale | eBay

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