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Originally Posted by BeenBurned Since Hyacinth asked, I'll make the comment/question that crossed my mind last night when I read your query and comment about having been contacted by a tPF member.

I consider myself a fairly decent detective and I tried to find that bag you purchased in July and wasn't successful. How did she find the listing and what was the item? Who is the seller from whom you purchased? I found an ebay buyer with your ID but didn't find any Coach purchases.

I question whether someone actually found a listing that you purchased.

bjsullivan said:
I know you can't tell me for sure until I can get photos of my bag. I just thought it was very strange that she (northern415) emailed me out of the blue when I can't even find the listing anymore. My Ebay ID is 6654becky and the person I purchased the bag from is libra5010.

I emailed northern415 back to ask for more info and how they found the listing, etc. but I did not receive a response. Here's the email from northern: "Just to inform you that the item "COACH RED SIGNATURE PLEATED TOTE WITH WRISTLET.. NWT!! (#320559674749)" you purchased for 138.00 in July from seller: libra5010 is a FAKE and ILLEGAL Coach bag! Coach NEVER made this exact style of bag. All of the Coach bags this seller has sold or has up for auction are FAKE! I am a member of TPF (The Purse Forum) and we are trying to stop these scammers on EBay. You should contact EBay and get your money refunded. There is a section in EBay's "HELP" that says how to go about getting your money back if the handbag you received was not authentic. Good luck!!"

I apologize if northern is just trying to help me out here, but I just thought the whole message out of the blue so much later was strange.

Thanks,
Becky
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Interesting. I'm not getting how she connected "Becky" to "BJ" but that's not important at this point.

(Just for the record, as much as those of us who are passionately against fakes want to protect buyers from getting ripped off, there are members who ebay has naru'ed when they've made those types of contacts. The tpf'er might want to consider the possible consequences should ebay find out.)

That said, I have looked at libra5010http://myworld.ebay.com/libra5010/'s current and completed listings since those are the only ones I'm able to view and I see what appears to be an authentic Coach listing for style 7081, I also see that the seller has a fake listing that includes 2 fake Dooneys and a fake LV (with "Vuitton" misspelled.) libra5010's completed listings also appear to be a combination of authentic and fakes.

So the best I can advise is that you post pictures of the bag you received from this seller and let us see the actual item. That's the only way to determine whether you got taken or not.

I don't recommend buying from libra5010 as it appears the seller buys on ebay for the purpose of resale but she doesn't know how to tell the difference between authentic and fake. I do see seller names in her feedback from whom I know she purchased authentic items but clearly, a reseller who doesn't know the difference shouldn't be shopping on ebay.

If the PF'er who contacted you is reading, she should know that although her heart may have been in the right place in trying to protect a buyer, she was wrong about everything from the seller being fake. But in fact, a seller who mixes authentic and fake is often more misleading to buyers than a seller of all fakes.
 
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BeenBurned said:
Originally Posted by BeenBurned Since Hyacinth asked, I'll make the comment/question that crossed my mind last night when I read your query and comment about having been contacted by a tPF member.

I consider myself a fairly decent detective and I tried to find that bag you purchased in July and wasn't successful. How did she find the listing and what was the item? Who is the seller from whom you purchased? I found an ebay buyer with your ID but didn't find any Coach purchases.

I question whether someone actually found a listing that you purchased.


Interesting. I'm not getting how she connected "Becky" to "BJ" but that's not important at this point.

(Just for the record, as much as those of us who are passionately against fakes want to protect buyers from getting ripped off, there are members who ebay has naru'ed when they've made those types of contacts. The tpf'er might want to consider the possible consequences should ebay find out.)

That said, I have looked at libra5010's current and completed listings since those are the only ones I'm able to view and I see what appears to be an authentic Coach listing for style 7081, I also see that the seller has a fake listing that includes 2 fake Dooneys and a fake LV (with "Vuitton" misspelled.) libra5010's completed listings also appear to be a combination of authentic and fakes.

So the best I can advise is that you post pictures of the bag you received from this seller and let us see the actual item. That's the only way to determine whether you got taken or not.

I don't recommend buying from libra5010 as it appears the seller buys on ebay for the purpose of resale but she doesn't know how to tell the difference between authentic and fake. I do see seller names in her feedback from whom I know she purchased authentic items but clearly, a reseller who doesn't know the difference shouldn't be shopping on ebay.

If the PF'er who contacted you is reading, she should know that although her heart may have been in the right place in trying to protect a buyer, she was wrong about everything from the seller being fake. But in fact, a seller who mixes authentic and fake is often more misleading to buyers than a seller of all fakes.
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Whoever "northern415" is, she was also wrong about the style number, since there are at least 60 listed for sale on Ebay and several are from well-known sellers. That bag was probably at the outlets within the last 6 or 8 months judging by the number available for sale.
http://desc.shop.ebay.com/i.html?_a...SALE_CURRENCY=0&_sop=10&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_rdc=1

That DOESN'T mean that bjsullivan's bag is genuine but it DOES mean that northern415 apparently not only doesn't recognise a genuine Coach but also doesn't bother to do even a few seconds' research to see if there are other bags in the same style with the same number being sold by usually-trustworthy sellers.

Like we said, just because someone claims to be a tPF member, that doesn't make him or her an expert. Whoever that Ebayer is, she needs to find something else to do with her time - something NOT involving authenticating Coaches. :nono:
 
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I had requested this small/med black patent Sabrina to be authenticated earlier today, and don't know if it was missed, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm hoping to perhaps buy this bag asap!
Thanks in advance, ladies!:smile1:
paperbagdame said:
Alrighty... the seller has sent me some more pictures, and I'm still in love with this bag. Help?
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hmequeeny said:
Ok been burned on Ebay before...tried looking up the serial number and I am just not finding many of these on google. So I thought I would see what you guys think. (and does anyone know what the dimensions are? Emailed seller with no response)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300486442832&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
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Please don't depend on Google for any kind of authentication, especially for older bags. This bag is six years old and the chances of many, real or fake, being indexed by Google is slim. And Google makes no distinction between real and fake, or correct or incorrect serial numbers.

The bag looks fine.
 
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starrymaz said:
Where did you get those pictures? Those pictures in your post above were taken from this ebay seller who sells authentic:
http://cgi.ebay.com/AUTHENTIC-COACH...024?pt=US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item588ab7eab0

I wasn't able to view any pictures on the siambrandname.com forum link you provided. If those pictures are being used on the forum link, they were stolen from the ebay seller.
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Starrymaz,The first thing I want to say sorry about the picture from that ebay seller,my bad I forgot I can post the link,
I promise I don't do this again.

And this the picture from siambrandname. I already ask for the last number 1417_? and she said "8"

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Hyacinth and Been Burned, Many thanks for your replies. I just became interested in Coach bags a few months ago, and I had read a few websites regarding telling fake from real. I wish I had discovered TPF forum earlier :)

I understand that you can't tell if my bag is fake, but at least I now know that Coach DID make this particular style. I will try to get some pics taken of mine also.

Oh, and northern said I could get my money back from Ebay...I don't think so, because it looks like it has been way too long.

I will ask you guys before I buy anything else from Ebay :)

Thanks again. You are great.

Becky
 
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