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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:
    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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#7,081
maramd said:
Real? This seller has several Coach bags with nice low starting bids, but almost all the creed photos are blurry, or such a long shot they are hard to read. I am interested in a few, not this one though. Other than to know if it should be reported or not. Thanks.

VINTAGE COACH DARK BROWN MESSENGER CROSS STRAP PURSE 3445
Item221800313330
Seller chubbiebunnie0802
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-COA...330?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item33a45431f2
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I hope the reason you aren't interested in this listing is because you recognized the fake serial number.

Before I even opened the listing, I suspected that 3445 was the suffix of the comment invalid number, 012-3445. Opening the listing confirmed it. :D

report away!

ETA: Although I can't read the prefix on this listing, I do see 4160 as the "style number" and that's not the style of this fake either.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-coa...949?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aebb4746d

ETA #2: Another fake with J8Y as the prefix:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-9966-...849?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item33a455f919

AVOID chubbiebunnie0802

BTW, there's also a fake Dooney. Ugh!
 
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#7,083
micki74 said:
Wow, thank you. Can you please explain exactly what "Made for factory bag" means and is this opposed to being handcrafted?
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MFF means that it's a style that was specifically made for the Coach outlet stores. It's not available at full priced Coach stores or department stores although sometimes they might be sold at discounters like Marshall's, TJ Maxx, Norstrom Rack, etc.
 
#7,085
BeenBurned said:
I hope the reason you aren't interested in this listing is because you recognized the fake serial number.

Before I even opened the listing, I suspected that 3445 was the suffix of the comment invalid number, 012-3445. Opening the listing confirmed it. :D

report away!

ETA: Although I can't read the prefix on this listing, I do see 4160 as the "style number" and that's not the style of this fake either.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-coa...949?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aebb4746d

ETA #2: Another fake with J8Y as the prefix:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-9966-...849?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item33a455f919

AVOID chubbiebunnie0802

BTW, there's also a fake Dooney. Ugh!
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The -4160 bag looks like a Lula's Legacy #9952 and MIGHT be genuine but with an incorrect style number. The serial prefix might be D6B-. The other listings BB mentioned are definitely fake.

The seller seems to be deliberately making it impossible to read the creeds and serial numbers.

There's NO WAY I would ever recommend buying from seller chubbiebunnie0802
 
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#7,086
debbie97439 said:
can someone please authenticate?
listing number is 111692168380
vintage black oat bag
seller is linear_pcs
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Bla...Tag-or-Creed-/111692168380?fromMakeTrack=true
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Hyacinth said:
Genuine. The seller doesn't give measurements but it looks like a Shoulder Pouch, style number 4025 from the Lightweight line and made in the late 1990s. Measurements should be about 11x10x5.
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Debbie and Hyacinth,

Did either of you happen to notice that linear_pcs has a "Coach bean bag" listing?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Bro...174?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a526acfde

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#7,087
BeenBurned said:
I hope the reason you aren't interested in this listing is because you recognized the fake serial number.

Before I even opened the listing, I suspected that 3445 was the suffix of the comment invalid number, 012-3445. Opening the listing confirmed it. :D

report away!

ETA: Although I can't read the prefix on this listing, I do see 4160 as the "style number" and that's not the style of this fake either.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-coa...949?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aebb4746d

ETA #2: Another fake with J8Y as the prefix:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-9966-...849?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item33a455f919

AVOID chubbiebunnie0802

BTW, there's also a fake Dooney. Ugh!
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O.k. will do. I couldn't make out the serial number. All the blurry creeds on so many of her listings made me suspicious. What instantly stood out to me on this bag was the shape of the leather tab that holds the male part of the turnlock.

Thanks for the confirmation.
 
#7,090
Jesabella said:
Item: Coach brown leather handbag
Listing Number: 111689805848
Seller: mpls1988
Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/111689805848

There's no picture of a creed so I really have no idea where to start. I searched for the seller's ID in this thread with no results. Any thoughts? Thanks so much!
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So far, it looks okay but a picture of the creed would help confirm.
 
#7,092
BeenBurned said:
Debbie and Hyacinth,

Did either of you happen to notice that linear_pcs has a "Coach bean bag" listing?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Bro...174?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a526acfde

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This one stunned me. It raises "scary good fake" to new levels when talking about creeds.

That bag on its own is screaming FAKE. It's trying to copy a Station Bag but the Station has a single center seam on the base, NOT two seams, one at each end (we've seen other Stations before with those double bottom seams). If the bag was made in 1990 (which it had to have been to have a GENUINE Bean Bag creed) it would have had a serial number. (The strap and strap hardware are wrong but that could have been changed.)

THE Bean Bag creed is almost an EXACT match for a genuine one, it's as if the center section of the original Bean Bag stamp was actually used. The spacing around the Coach name in the cartouche is off by maybe a millimeter, and something's missing that should be there. But the rest of the creed is a perfect copy.

Real on the left, fake on the right, and the original key ring below that.. I'd love to hear everyone's opinions.
 

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#7,093
shawnsgirl said:
Could you please tell me if this is real
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That's a horrible fake - is this currently for sale somewhere? If so, please post the information we ask for in Post number 1 of this thread, which we need when we authenticate Coach items. We need to know where it's being sold and by whom.

NO COACH PURSE WITH A FULL C OR COACH LOGO PATTERN ON THE OUTSIDE WILL EVER HAVE A C PATTERN OR LOGO LINING. There's nothing else right about it either, from the "leather" trim to the outside pattern placement to the creed with NO valid serial number to the printed rather than woven-in lining pattern to the run-together words in at least one line of the creed stamp to the sloppy stitching around the creed stamp to the Carriage emblem and fake base it's attached to.

If you own it, I hope you can get your money back.
 
#7,094
debbie97439 said:
I think the Coach bean bag listing is the same one that I asked to have authenticated.
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No it's not, THIS is the one you asked about in your original post:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Bla...d-/111692168380?fromMakeTrack=true&rmvSB=true

And this is your post:
http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-shopping/authenticate-this-coach-889527-472.html#post28712011

The one you asked about earlier has a drawstring and NO turnlock. It's the same SELLER but NOT the same bag.
 
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