These show again why creed photos are so important, especially when we can't feel or physically examine a bag we're trying to authenticate. But each of those 3 fakes has major problems with the creed that just one photo would have exposed.
The Pat's Legacy has a plant code "E" that was only used for the Italy plant, but the creed says it was made in the US.
The Willis not only has a serial in a 3+4 format that would have been several years too early to have been used in any genuine Willis, but the 012-3445 serial is on Part One of my Fakes List - the font is also too thick:
http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-sh...enticity-questions-94198-72.html#post26447774
The white Station Bag shows a style number of -4154 but a genuine one would have used -5130. My Fakes List in the "always fake" section also says
"M4N-4154 - Anything starting with M4N- is suspect and should be authenticated by an expert", and that number has been used in many fakes already. So far I haven't found a valid M4N- prefix that would show Coach actually made bags in the plant, month and year indicated by those codes. And if you look closely you'll see the word "scrtches" is missing the letter "a", another problem we've seen in dozens of fakes.
No matter how much experience someone has buying or selling Coaches, just being familiar with them won't help you spot all or even most of the fakes. The creed and serial number details are the most important and dependable tools but you need a lot of photos and information on real and fake ones to make valid comparisons. And sometimes, like Whateve pointed out when answering another authenticity question that I wasn't sure about:
http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-shopping/authenticate-this-coach-855067-373.html#post27125055
you need a genuine version of the style for comparison.
So if a listing doesn't have actual READABLE photos of the creed and serial number and the seller won't or can't supply them, hit the Back button.
