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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fireflyposh said:
Could you please authenticate these for me?

Item: Coach Black & Brown Leather Tote & Cross Body Bag
Listing number: 132864244
Seller and site where listed: Shopgoodwill.com
Link: https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/132864244

My suspicions tell me the brown one is a FAKE but the canvas might be real. I am very new with a lot to learn and this is my first time request for AT.
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You are correct. The signature bag is fine but the brown one is fake.

ETA: According to the listing, "Note: Goodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland & East Central Ohio states that this item has been posted in accordance with shopgoodwill.com's policy prohibiting the sale of counterfeit items. If you have any questions or concerns about the authenticity of this item please contact seller directly prior to bidding," but whether they will end the listing is doubtful!

I'm not a fan of Goodwill's response to reports of fakes.
 
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BeenBurned said:
You are correct. The signature bag is fine but the brown one is fake.

ETA: According to the listing, "Note: Goodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland & East Central Ohio states that this item has been posted in accordance with shopgoodwill.com's policy prohibiting the sale of counterfeit items. If you have any questions or concerns about the authenticity of this item please contact seller directly prior to bidding," but whether they will end the listing is doubtful!

I'm not a fan of Goodwill's response to reports of fakes.
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Thank you so much!
 
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SakuraSakura said:
I saw this too so I kind of feel the need to stand up for this user. It seems like the Posher was congratulating you. That is common on Poshmark. It isn't great to assume others intentions through words with little context. I know that I'm going to be seen as a trouble-maker but, while this forum is great, I dislike how we pile onto people and assume their intentions. It comes across as mean-spirited.
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SakuraSakura said:
I saw this too so I kind of feel the need to stand up for this user. It seems like the Posher was congratulating you. That is common on Poshmark. It isn't great to assume others intentions through words with little context. I know that I'm going to be seen as a trouble-maker but, while this forum is great, I dislike how we pile onto people and assume their intentions. It comes across as mean-spirited.
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i don't know which post or listing you're referring to but I assume that a seller of fakes was criticized. We aren't here to coddle. We're here to help honest buyers to get genuine items and not be ripped off and unlike many of the other TPF "authenticate this" brands, we also help sellers who are willing to verify their items prior to listing (as required by federal law).

Poshmark (as the site) and so many of their sellers are notorious for listing fakes and not take action on reports. We've had many posts here (and specifically on the Coach subforum) where honest sellers have been suspended because someone claimed a genuine bag was fake and many instances in which Poshmark and their "experts" deemed fakes as authentic and gave buyers a hard time, often denying refunds for those illegal fakes.

And as a result of the lack of safety on Poshmark and the proliferation of fakes and sellers who don't care about ripping off buyers, I have no reservations about making it known that I don't trust, recommend or authenticate poshmark listings.

If you think that's "piling on," so be it. I'd hate to have to say, "I told you so" when you get a fake from someone YOU assumed was honest.

JMHO.
 
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@SakuraSakura said:
I saw this too so I kind of feel the need to stand up for this user. It seems like the Posher was congratulating you. That is common on Poshmark. It isn't great to assume others intentions through words with little context. I know that I'm going to be seen as a trouble-maker but, while this forum is great, I dislike how we pile onto people and assume their intentions. It comes across as mean-spirited.



BeenBurned said:
i don't know which post or listing you're referring to but I assume that a seller of fakes was criticized. We aren't here to coddle. We're here to help honest buyers to get genuine items and not be ripped off and unlike many of the other TPF "authenticate this" brands, we also help sellers who are willing to verify their items prior to listing (as required by federal law).

Poshmark (as the site) and so many of their sellers are notorious for listing fakes and not take action on reports. We've had many posts here (and specifically on the Coach subforum) where honest sellers have been suspended because someone claimed a genuine bag was fake and many instances in which Poshmark and their "experts" deemed fakes as authentic and gave buyers a hard time, often denying refunds for those illegal fakes.

And as a result of the lack of safety on Poshmark and the proliferation of fakes and sellers who don't care about ripping off buyers, I have no reservations about making it known that I don't trust, recommend or authenticate poshmark listings.

If you think that's "piling on," so be it. I'd hate to have to say, "I told you so" when you get a fake from someone YOU assumed was honest.

JMHO.
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It was regarding my authentication request for a beautiful blue Rambler’s Legacy. A posher who was watching the listing left a comment immediately after I bought it (under the listing so seller would receive a notification). She might be just congratulating me, but her words made me felt very uneasy, feared it might promote the seller to change her mind and cancel the sale. ( Had sellers canceled my poshmark purchases twice in the past). It took 2 days for the seller to ship out the bag and it is still in transit. I checked the purchase status anxiously couple dozen times in those 2 days. It is not a steal price, but is not bad price for a rare color bag.
Well, here is a screen shot of the comment, I blurred the posher’s ID for privacy

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LunaSilver said:
SakuraSakura said:
I saw this too so I kind of feel the need to stand up for this user. It seems like the Posher was congratulating you. That is common on Poshmark. It isn't great to assume others intentions through words with little context. I know that I'm going to be seen as a trouble-maker but, while this forum is great, I dislike how we pile onto people and assume their intentions. It comes across as mean-spirited.




It was regarding my authentication request for a beautiful blue Rambler’s Legacy. A posher who was watching the listing left a comment immediately after I bought it. She might be just congratulating me, but her words made me felt very uneasy, feared it might promote the seller to change her mind and cancel the sale. ( Had sellers canceled my poshmark purchases twice in the past). It took 2 days for the seller to ship out the bag and it is still in transit. I checked the purchase status anxiously couple dozen times in those 2 days. It is not a steal price, but is not bad price for a rare color bag.
Well, here is a screen shot of the comment, I blurred the posher’s ID for privacy

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Thanks for the clarification.

I totally misunderstood the post but I think it was because there were so many times when our posts weren't what someone hoped to hear that I just assumed this was referring to one of them.
 
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BeenBurned said:
Thanks for the clarification.

I totally misunderstood the post but I think it was because there were so many times when our posts weren't what someone hoped to hear that I just assumed this was referring to one of them.
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I won’t know either if I didn’t receive the quote notification. Lol…
It was confusing as the original quote wasn’t there.
 
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SakuraSakura said:
@SakuraSakura said:
I saw this too so I kind of feel the need to stand up for this user. It seems like the Posher was congratulating you. That is common on Poshmark. It isn't great to assume others intentions through words with little context. I know that I'm going to be seen as a trouble-maker but, while this forum is great, I dislike how we pile onto people and assume their intentions. It comes across as mean-spirited.
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To be honest, why not just say you feel the need to stand up for yourself? As you are the posh user who left the comment under the listing of my poshmark purchase.
 
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