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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#11,386
yellowjello said:
Please authenticate. Thank you in advance.

Ladies `Coach` Solid Brown Leather Handbag
Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana
26217731
link
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yellowjello said:
I forgot, here is the creed picture:
creed link
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Authentic
yellowjello said:
And one more authentication please. Thank you in advance.

Vintage Leather Coach 9870 Crossbody Bag
Goodwill of Western Missouri & Eastern Kansas
26216614
link
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Probably okay. I can't see the entire creed.
 
#11,387
i want to apologise ahead of time for bumping my request and being a pain in the you know what. this thread is an invaluable resource and the last thing i want to seem is impatient. however i think my post got lost in the shuffle a few pages back.

i saw an ultra-convincing gathered lindsey fake in an old authentication thread and that's what's prompting me to double check. it looks fine to my eye though, what do you guys think?

seriously a huge thank you for looking at my bag!

purse type: gathered lindsey (no online link available)
 

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#11,388
kittenss said:
i want to apologise ahead of time for bumping my request and being a pain in the you know what. this thread is an invaluable resource and the last thing i want to seem is impatient. however i think my post got lost in the shuffle a few pages back.

i saw an ultra-convincing gathered lindsey fake in an old authentication thread and that's what's prompting me to double check. it looks fine to my eye though, what do you guys think?

seriously a huge thank you for looking at my bag!

purse type: gathered lindsey (no online link available)
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It's fine.
 
#11,390
mrk2014 said:
Please authenticate this listing in Poshmark

Item: Purple Coach
Link: https://poshmark.com/listing/COACH-CrossbodySmall-PRICE-FIRM-566f85958f0fc4100c0105cf
Comments: Although already sold, I have never seen this style in this color and lined, so just curious if there was a newer version or this is a fake. Thanks!
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Coach updated and remade the Chester Bag back in 2012. There's a picture of it in that color here in the Fall 2012 Master Thread:
http://forum.purseblog.com/coach/coach-fall-2012-master-thread-739031.html
Scroll down to photo #80. That doesn't necessarily mean the bag in the photo is genuine though, and without a creed photo there's no way to authenticate it.
 
#11,391
Want to buy but unsure?? Is it authentic, is it too much money?

Seller: trilistnik(7589)
100.0% Positive Feedback
Member since 2003
Location: United States

http://m.ebay.com/itm/EUC-Vtg-Coach...-BritishTan-/151898338241?nav=WATCHING_ACTIVE

EUC Vtg Coach 80s USA Shoulder Bag Crossbody Messenger Turnlock Purse BritishTan

Item # 151898338241

$84.92

Size: height 6" x width 9.5" x depth 2.5"

I can't figure out how to post pics of it. Perhaps whoever helps me can go to the link I posted to see it.
I really appreciate your help,
Thank you, Christine
 
#11,392
#11,393
Christinern said:
Want to buy but unsure?? Is it authentic, is it too much money?

Seller: trilistnik(7589)
100.0% Positive Feedback
Member since 2003
Location: United States

http://m.ebay.com/itm/EUC-Vtg-Coach...-BritishTan-/151898338241?nav=WATCHING_ACTIVE

EUC Vtg Coach 80s USA Shoulder Bag Crossbody Messenger Turnlock Purse BritishTan

Item # 151898338241

$84.92

Size: height 6" x width 9.5" x depth 2.5"

I can't figure out how to post pics of it. Perhaps whoever helps me can go to the link I posted to see it.
I really appreciate your help,
Thank you, Christine
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You don't need to post pictures if there are viewable pictures of everything we need in the listing. The bag is authentic. It's a compartment bag from the early 90s.
 
#11,395
#11,396
HI ALL! I sent an ebayer to TPF to JOIN & ask about this wallet. She worked at COACH in the 1990s. Apparently she asked for authentication on a "NOT COACH" forum because she was met with Hostility & nastiness.:tdown: I know that would not be you LOVELY LADIES.:tpfrox: As you are all welcoming & wonderful-especially to a 1990s former COACH employee..YOW!
Thank you in advance:heart:

Please Authenticate this wallet

ebay seller harrypotterdh12
item:
COACH WALLET VINTAGE BLACK LEATHER BRASS BUCKLE CHECK BOOK ORGANIZER VERY CLEAN

http://www.ebay.com/itm/13167481325...op=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_nkw=131674813253&_rdc=1
 
#11,397
SheriDahlin said:
HI ALL! I sent an ebayer to TPF to JOIN & ask about this wallet. She worked at COACH in the 1990s. Apparently she asked for authentication on a "NOT COACH" forum because she was met with Hostility & nastiness.:tdown: I know that would not be you LOVELY LADIES.:tpfrox: As you are all welcoming & wonderful-especially to a 1990s former COACH employee..YOW!
Thank you in advance:heart:

Please Authenticate this wallet

ebay seller harrypotterdh12
item:
COACH WALLET VINTAGE BLACK LEATHER BRASS BUCKLE CHECK BOOK ORGANIZER VERY CLEAN

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131674813253?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_udlo%3D%26_udhi%3D%26_ftrt%3D901%26_ftrv%3D1%26_sabdlo%3D%26_sabdhi%3D%26_samilow%3D%26_samihi%3D%26_sadis%3D15%26_stpos%3D34990%26_sop%3D12%26_dmd%3D1%26_ipg%3D50%26_nkw%3D131674813253%26_rdc%3D1
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Good grief! Hostility? seriously?

Her post was here, followed by my response and Hyacinth's, neither of which would I consider the least bit hostile!
http://forum.purseblog.com/coach/id-this-coach-item-post-any-coach-item-355205-696.html#post29575337

First of all, based on her post recommending us to "check out the listing," I inferred that it might be her own listing. There was no accusation or rudeness; just a question. But instead of rudeness, Hyacinth's comment should have given this newbie a heads up on
TPF rules because admin will ban members for advertising and/or authenticating their own items. (It's in the rules.)

I also expressed a very valid aversion to auction listings with private bidding. Having been on ebay, TPF and other auction sites for years, I've seen countless cases where sellers hid shill bidding, sales of fakes and a host of other violations in private listings.

For innocuous items like handbags and wallets, I (personally) see no valid reason for private listings unless something questionable is going on behind the scenes.

As for this person being a former Coach employee, why would she have needed to "authenticate" her item if she knew it came from Coach? That points to another reason why it would point to self-promotion.

Note that in other brands subforums here on TPF, they'll ignore requests that aren't posted in the correct place, aren't posting in the required format, are posted with missing required pics and they won't authenticate for sellers.

Here in Coach, I think we're very lenient. All we request of sellers is that you have an item purchased on the secondary market and want confirmation of authenticity, just post pictures and don't mention selling.


To be accused of being hostile is hurtful and unfair. For the amount of time, research and expertise we contribute without ANY compensation from anyone, it frustrates me to no end when I'm accused of not coddling.
 
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