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bargainhunt said:
Hi Hyacinth, thank you so much for your help & time! I am so relieved to hear that they're authentic. Yes, a lesson learned, lol!

I read somewhere (eBay guide) that:

  1. key fobs don't come w/ gift boxes and to be careful when a seller has many quantity of key fobs for sale.
  2. to be careful w/ bad image quality and visible hardware quality: some of this seller's pictures are pretty blurred and some hardware seem scratched.
I was so positive that they're fake after reading those guides & looked into some photo comparisons.. There were also differences in the charm colors.

I know many online guides may be outdated and not true. I will be extra careful next time I buy key fobs :]
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Those warnings are true only to a certain extent. I've found that if you find that there are many sellers with the same keychains listed, then the chance for authenticity goes up. The same fobs go on sale all over the country at the outlets. Sellers are allowed to buy multiples at the outlets so they might have multiples available.

Only certain gift boxes are fake. There are some flat ones they give away at the outlet. When I bought a fuzzy fob at the outlet, it came in a plain white box with a label on the side. I've bought some at Macy's that came with a gift box.

Coach stores used to remove the tags from keychains before putting them out so it is very common to see them listed without tags.
 
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dx007 said:
Hi ! I love this bag and really wish to purchase it, unfortunately the serial no. of the Coach bag does not appear to end in 9870, which I believe is characteristic of the Coach court bags. Is it authentic?

Item: Vintage Blue Coach Court Bag
Listing number:251493555410
Seller: botticelli4grace
Link: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/VINTAGE-...US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item3a8e2f1cd2&_uhb=1
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Item: Vintage Black Coach Court Bag
Listing number:251492093766
Seller:parkmaxstl75
Link: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vtg-COAC...US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item3a8e18cf46&_uhb=1

Thanks in advance, I really appreciate any help I can get=3:D
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I already authenticated the second one. The first one is authentic even though the seller is less than stellar.
 
#2,028
JOODLZ said:
Could someone please authenticate this Coach accessory?
This must be "red" week at Goodwill :)
Approx. 7.5”w x 4.5”h x 2”d
Would like to know age, style #, name, where it was made...any or all is appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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It looks authentic. It was probably made in the US since there isn't a label stating otherwise. I don't have it in my files. I think it is probably from the 90s. There is a coin purse with the same bottom from the 90s.
 
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Hyacinth said:
1- genuine. Apparently the stamping mechanism got jammed up and stuck on "8" instead of a dash for a while, we see quite a few of those. It's also mentioned in one of the Salearea Guides, probably the one on vintage bags and leathers..

2- why do you think it's fake? I don't have a Kent Bag and can only compare it to a few bad photos but there don't seem to be any obvious problems.

3- the serial number is J9V- and it was made in Mexico. It's genuine.
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Thank you, Hyacinth.

1) I looked for the reference in a Salearea guide and found it here:Coach-Serial-Numbers-the-Basic-Facts
" And rarely the dash between the two halves was skipped over and a string of 8 numbers would be stamped. "

2) In this circumstance I think I was (wrongly, of course) judging a book by its cover. The overhead harsh lighting in the photograph made the leather appear hard... and too shiny. I found two links to Kent bags that are better representations, I think, of the bag.

SacsMagnifique: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Authentic-V...881?pt=US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item3cdf2a8a71

Medoza-Arizona:http://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-VTG-L...SHOULDER-BAG-9916-USA-RARE-FLAP-/161149920455

3) Wow! A V I have never seen a V until now. Thanks.



Thanks again, Hyacinth. There is so much to learn.
 
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dx007 said:
Hi ! I love this bag and really wish to purchase it, unfortunately the serial no. of the Coach bag does not appear to end in 9870, which I believe is characteristic of the Coach court bags. Is it authentic?

Item: Vintage Blue Coach Court Bag
Listing number:251493555410
Seller: botticelli4grace
Link: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/VINTAGE-...US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item3a8e2f1cd2&_uhb=1
Comments:

Item: Vintage Black Coach Court Bag
Listing number:251492093766
Seller:parkmaxstl75
Link: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vtg-COAC...US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item3a8e18cf46&_uhb=1

Thanks in advance, I really appreciate any help I can get=3:D
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The second one is genuine.

And like BeenBurned, I wouldn't buy anything from botticelli4grace if she was the last seller on Ebay. She KNOWINGLY cheated an inexperienced buyer out of hundreds of dollars for a box full of FAKE Coaches. She's right at the top of my "special" list., and I hope Kharma catches up with her soon.

And the reason I say "knowingly" is because it seems like she saved up all the fake Coaches she'd gotten stuck with and put them all in one lot. Out of I think 9 Coaches, EIGHT of them were fakes. And the genuine one probably only slipped through because it's a style that didn't have a searchable record or serial number. There's no way that all those fakes ended up in one listing by accident.
 
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Hyacinth said:
And like BeenBurned, I wouldn't buy anything from botticelli4grace if she was the last seller on Ebay. She KNOWINGLY cheated an inexperienced buyer out of hundreds of dollars for a box full of FAKE Coaches. She's right at the top of my "special" list., and I hope Kharma catches up with her soon.

And the reason I say "knowingly" is because it seems like she saved up all the fake Coaches she'd gotten stuck with and put them all in one lot. Out of I think 9 Coaches, EIGHT of them were fakes. And the genuine one probably only slipped through because it's a style that didn't have a searchable record or serial number. There's no way that all those fakes ended up in one listing by accident.
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Hyacinth said:
"Less then stellar"? That's got my vote for the understatement of the year. :graucho:
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To further confirm botticelli4grace knowingly uses her lot listings to unload fakes, I found several other lot listings in her completed/sold listings where fakes were mixed in among authentic items.

These are screenshots of completed/sold listings, all of which included at least one fake Coach in each listing. Notice that they were each "sold" more than once, possibly bought by a buyer who returned it, thus the relisting of the lots.
 

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Flogbunk said:
Hello,

Can you authenticate this Coach laptop/briefcase?

Item: Vintage Coach Black Leather Shoulder Messenger Computer Laptop Bag Briefcase
Listing number:231195976562
Seller: tyjahn
Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Coa...562?pt=US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item35d45aa372
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That one worries me.

Bad bad crooked creed, invalid plant code "Z" was still being used by the Dominican Republic plant in 2002 which is the year code in this briefcase, there's a mistake in the formatting of the serial number and it doesn't have enough digits, the creed description of the leather doesn't match other bags in the same style, and the proportions of the leather turnlock tabs don't seem quite right.

You may want to ask Noshoepolish to take a look. Briefcases aren't my specialty.
 
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