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Does anyone have any info on this bag? I did a search and couldn't find any info/pics and the style number the seller gives doesn't come up in the drilldown.

http://cgi.ebay.com/NWT-AUTH-COACH-...9QQihZ001QQcategoryZ63852QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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I came home at lunch today to find my wife balling her eyes out at home. It took awhile to get the total story out of her but let begin with my wife is a wonderful trusting woman who loves to collect her handbags, shoes and clothes in general.

She's been selling much of her collection, one which was an old Coach handbag. She had bought the Coach boag from an outlet mall on discount about three years ago. A few months ago she sold it on ebay, with image of the Coach authentic number inside. She had no reason to believe she had purchased a counterfeit, but the person she sold it to immediately put up a dispute with PayPal. We just expected this was someone trying to scam her by dragging out the dispute hoping my wife would just give in and they would get a free Coach handbag.

Now three months have gone by, and PayPal informs my wife that Coach said the bag was a counterfeit. My wife reluctantly reimbured the seller and of course is not getting the purse back (though Couch has told her they don't have it, so we aren't even sure who has the counterfeit purse). Then PayPal informs my wife that Coach's lawyers would be in touch with her and they would be prosectuting my wife to the extent of the law.

We contacted a few people at Coach and they've sent us to the counterfiet Coach division, or something like that, and we've left messages with them. But, what they hey?!? Is my trustful naive wife going to spend some time in jail over this? That's what she's been told over the phone. I can't believe Coach would prosecute someone for unknowingly selling their counterfeit merchandise. I would completely understand if she was doing it over and over ...

One good thing came out of this ... she's said she's done with PayPal, EBay and collecting handbags and shoes.
 
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PLEASE HELP ME AUTHENTICATE THIS BAG...it ends on only 2 hours!!! The seller has 100% feedback and has sold other Coach bags before! THANK YOU!!
 

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sm001 said:
I came home at lunch today to find my wife balling her eyes out at home. It took awhile to get the total story out of her but let begin with my wife is a wonderful trusting woman who loves to collect her handbags, shoes and clothes in general.

She's been selling much of her collection, one which was an old Coach handbag. She had bought the Coach boag from an outlet mall on discount about three years ago. A few months ago she sold it on ebay, with image of the Coach authentic number inside. She had no reason to believe she had purchased a counterfeit, but the person she sold it to immediately put up a dispute with PayPal. We just expected this was someone trying to scam her by dragging out the dispute hoping my wife would just give in and they would get a free Coach handbag.

Now three months have gone by, and PayPal informs my wife that Coach said the bag was a counterfeit. My wife reluctantly reimbured the seller and of course is not getting the purse back (though Couch has told her they don't have it, so we aren't even sure who has the counterfeit purse). Then PayPal informs my wife that Coach's lawyers would be in touch with her and they would be prosectuting my wife to the extent of the law.

We contacted a few people at Coach and they've sent us to the counterfiet Coach division, or something like that, and we've left messages with them. But, what they hey?!? Is my trustful naive wife going to spend some time in jail over this? That's what she's been told over the phone. I can't believe Coach would prosecute someone for unknowingly selling their counterfeit merchandise. I would completely understand if she was doing it over and over ...

One good thing came out of this ... she's said she's done with PayPal, EBay and collecting handbags and shoes.
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I really don't know what will happen. I know that selling fakes supports terrorism and can get jail time but I've never heard of it going this far. It's pretty easy to authenticate Coach. I don't understand the whole outlet thing. Was it a Coach outlet or one of those carts outside of stores?
 
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Purse-O-Nality said:
PLEASE HELP ME AUTHENTICATE THIS BAG...it ends on only 2 hours!!! The seller has 100% feedback and has sold other Coach bags before! THANK YOU!!
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Some of us still like to check the other things the seller has listed to make sure they're selling all genuine items, so PLEASE post the auction number or link - remember your Monkey keyfob? Feedback numbers and even photos don't tell you everything you need to know.
 
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sm001 said:
I came home at lunch today to find my wife balling her eyes out at home. It took awhile to get the total story out of her but let begin with my wife is a wonderful trusting woman who loves to collect her handbags, shoes and clothes in general.

She's been selling much of her collection, one which was an old Coach handbag. She had bought the Coach boag from an outlet mall on discount about three years ago. A few months ago she sold it on ebay, with image of the Coach authentic number inside. She had no reason to believe she had purchased a counterfeit, but the person she sold it to immediately put up a dispute with PayPal. We just expected this was someone trying to scam her by dragging out the dispute hoping my wife would just give in and they would get a free Coach handbag.

Now three months have gone by, and PayPal informs my wife that Coach said the bag was a counterfeit. My wife reluctantly reimbured the seller and of course is not getting the purse back (though Couch has told her they don't have it, so we aren't even sure who has the counterfeit purse). Then PayPal informs my wife that Coach's lawyers would be in touch with her and they would be prosectuting my wife to the extent of the law.

We contacted a few people at Coach and they've sent us to the counterfiet Coach division, or something like that, and we've left messages with them. But, what they hey?!? Is my trustful naive wife going to spend some time in jail over this? That's what she's been told over the phone. I can't believe Coach would prosecute someone for unknowingly selling their counterfeit merchandise. I would completely understand if she was doing it over and over ...

One good thing came out of this ... she's said she's done with PayPal, EBay and collecting handbags and shoes.
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Did she buy it from a Coach store at an outlet mall? If not, it was probably counterfeit. It's up to every Ebay seller to be absolutely sure their items are genuine, and federal law doesn't accept lack of knowledge as an excuse for breaking the law.

But if your facts are correct, there are HUNDREDS of Ebay sellers Coach should be going after first. I'd be more than happy to send them a list.
 
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