Originally Posted by Hyacinth 
Absolutely NOT!
Not only has Coach used other brands, but what's to prevent a counterfeiter from BUYING real YKK zippers? Or buying FAKE YKK zippers???
Why doesn't anybody ever stop and think before they post nonsense like that in those useless online "Buying Guides"??? Please don't EVER depend on those ridiculous "guides" for ANY valid information about Coach authenticity!
Sorry to be so vehement, but you have no idea how much damage the people who write those worse than useless Guides can do - people believe what's printed in them and either buy fakes because they have the "right" zipper, or buy a genuine bag and then accuse the seller of sending them a fake because it doesn't fit the "Rules" listed in the Guide. Of all the Guides on the Internet and on Ebay, you can count the accurate ones on the fingers of one hand (that's just Ebay guides, BTW, every Guide I've found somewhere else on the Internet has always been wrong), and even those will become inaccurate and outdated if they're not brought up to date regularly.
There are almost no real rules - Coach changes details constantly. Fabrics, creed patches, serial number wording and fonts, the number of digits in the serial number - everything is subject to change and even the very few almost-rules that are valid 99.9 percent of the time can still have exceptions.
There are NO Rules that prove a Coach is genuine, but there are a lot of mistakes that can prove it's fake. And anything a manufacturer can make - fabric, colors, hangtag, paperwork, zippers, creed patches, dustbags, price tags, hardware, ANYTHING - can be copied or faked. Don't ever depend on some useless Rules to prove that something's authentic. There may be fewer than 5 real Rules but they only can prove a bag is fake, not genuine. And we can disprove or find an exception to almost any Rule that anyone can quote from one of those pathetically inaccurate Guides.
Absolutely NOT! Not only has Coach used other brands, but what's to prevent a counterfeiter from BUYING real YKK zippers? Or buying FAKE YKK zippers???
Why doesn't anybody ever stop and think before they post nonsense like that in those useless online "Buying Guides"??? Please don't EVER depend on those ridiculous "guides" for ANY valid information about Coach authenticity!
oooo...alright, will take note on this, thanks for the advice!
Sorry to be so vehement, but you have no idea how much damage the people who write those worse than useless Guides can do - people believe what's printed in them and either buy fakes because they have the "right" zipper, or buy a genuine bag and then accuse the seller of sending them a fake because it doesn't fit the "Rules" listed in the Guide. Of all the Guides on the Internet and on Ebay, you can count the accurate ones on the fingers of one hand (that's just Ebay guides, BTW, every Guide I've found somewhere else on the Internet has always been wrong), and even those will become inaccurate and outdated if they're not brought up to date regularly.
There are almost no real rules - Coach changes details constantly. Fabrics, creed patches, serial number wording and fonts, the number of digits in the serial number - everything is subject to change and even the very few almost-rules that are valid 99.9 percent of the time can still have exceptions.
There are NO Rules that prove a Coach is genuine, but there are a lot of mistakes that can prove it's fake. And anything a manufacturer can make - fabric, colors, hangtag, paperwork, zippers, creed patches, dustbags, price tags, hardware, ANYTHING - can be copied or faked. Don't ever depend on some useless Rules to prove that something's authentic. There may be fewer than 5 real Rules but they only can prove a bag is fake, not genuine. And we can disprove or find an exception to almost any Rule that anyone can quote from one of those pathetically inaccurate Guides.
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