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karenmae1983 said:
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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Wtf? How the heck does selling fakes support terrorism? Anyway, more importantly:

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 could understand being banned by eBay, because it's the seller's responsibility to insure the authenticity of their items, but I don't know why Coach would sue - basically, they'd have to prove that your wife knowingly sold a fake, which seems hard to do. I guess the only thing you can do is get a lawyer, and hope he or she can convince a judge that your wife really is an innocent and naive as you say she is.
 
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AwesomeJones said:
Real or Fake?

Thanks for the help!
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Well at first glace I'd say it's okay -- one thing that sticks out though is the model # on the creed is 7458 (or at least that's what it looks like).. and on coach's site, that corresponds to a similar bag, but in leather not signature

see http://www.coach.com/assets/product_images/drilldown1/7458_d1.jpg

So I guess I'd say most likely it's authentic.. but maybe wait for one of the other tPF members to check it as well.
 
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