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So, I bought and rehabbed a bag, and boy do I have a stoy for you!
First the frustration of the purchase, then the kicker. ----
A few weeks ago, I was looking on ebay for a 2012-Legacy clutch in a certain color. Found one, in excellent condition, bought it, love it, wonderful seller!
In the process, I stumbled across another, poorly listed clutch, in a different color and at a very good price. Pictures did not show the inside, but the outside leather looked good. Pictures showed a missing hangtag (though this was not pointed out or listed in description), but I have a spare silver tag that will look lovely on it. Description said "only worn a couple times" "looks new" "no wear at all". So I figured what the hey, I'll get that bag too.
A week goes by, and there is no tracking info is posted to ebay; no communication from seller; nothing. So I was *just* about to email the seller, when she emails me saying that she had to take a trip out of town, and would send it on a certain day, in another week.
........ Ok, so we wait another week (we're now two weeks past the end of auction and the instant payment that my hubby did). Then the day she says she's going to ship passes, and we wait til the end of the next day as well. Still no tracking info. So I email again, asking if we could at least have the tracking info, or if she could load it into ebay's system. No response. Another day goes by, and suddenly we get an email with the tracking info. Obviously, she forgot to ship on the day she said she would, we reminded her, she did it a couple days later, then quick sent us the info. (And remember, this was over two weeks past the end of auction.)
Bag arrived today. Hangtag missing, but that's ok because I had discerned that fact from the pics. The leather is indeed in wonderful, even perfect condition. The inside, however, was filled with glitter and blusher. And I mean, as if a blush compact had exploded. (No, I did not take pictures. I have enough rehabbing experience that I knew I could get it out without issue, and my overwhelming drive was to pull the lining and wash wash wash!!! You'll just have to take my word for it, but I swear on the Bible, as a Sunday school teacher of tiny children, that it was covered with blush powder.)
Fortunately, 2012 Legacy is lined with a cottony fabric rather than satin. So I pulled the lining, hand-washed it (ahh, the good old rehabbing days), wiped the leather down with a damp towel, and now the lining is drying, inside out, near a light airflow. I'll post pics this evening (I want to use hubby's camera, but have not mastered getting the pics off by myself.) I have not left feedback ... not sure what, even, to say, if I do.
But before I give you the real kicker, let me quickly review:
And now the kicker --- her username is also her real name, so while I was waiting those two weeks for shipment, I could not resist checking her out. (Hey, if you're going to make me wait so long, don't be surprised if I go wandering. And given that her username *is* her ebay name, it's not like it was a secret.) Easy to find. Name matches, home city matches, even the city she made that trip to, matches.
Turns out, she's a Coach executive. In fact, shout out to Hyacinth, I'd lay down money that this is one of the execs who authorized that 2012 Legacy video of women dragging their handbags through the grass. Oh yes, Hyacinth, I'm entirely serious. I remember how much you enjoyed that.
And what is more, I now have action shots of this bag at a NYC Coach party. Here's one (I'm cutting faces out, but left the copyright since I obviously do not own it.) ...
That would be Coach's party at the Danziger Gallery, NYC, to celebrate their "Sartorialist" project. That black clutch on the right? Yeah, that would be the one now drying in my dining room.
I'm really kind of amused by all of this. The leather is wonderful, the inside is now clean, and I'm amused that this clutch danced around the Coach NYC parties.
But I do have to say this ---- after the frustration of having it shipped, seeing the blusher explosion, and discovering who the seller really was .... well, suddenly all the pricing games, the pce/fos games, the outlet games, and yes, even Hyacinth's favorite video of handbags being drug on the ground ... it just all makes a little more sense today.
So, I bought and rehabbed a bag, and boy do I have a stoy for you!
First the frustration of the purchase, then the kicker. ----
A few weeks ago, I was looking on ebay for a 2012-Legacy clutch in a certain color. Found one, in excellent condition, bought it, love it, wonderful seller!
In the process, I stumbled across another, poorly listed clutch, in a different color and at a very good price. Pictures did not show the inside, but the outside leather looked good. Pictures showed a missing hangtag (though this was not pointed out or listed in description), but I have a spare silver tag that will look lovely on it. Description said "only worn a couple times" "looks new" "no wear at all". So I figured what the hey, I'll get that bag too.
A week goes by, and there is no tracking info is posted to ebay; no communication from seller; nothing. So I was *just* about to email the seller, when she emails me saying that she had to take a trip out of town, and would send it on a certain day, in another week.
........ Ok, so we wait another week (we're now two weeks past the end of auction and the instant payment that my hubby did). Then the day she says she's going to ship passes, and we wait til the end of the next day as well. Still no tracking info. So I email again, asking if we could at least have the tracking info, or if she could load it into ebay's system. No response. Another day goes by, and suddenly we get an email with the tracking info. Obviously, she forgot to ship on the day she said she would, we reminded her, she did it a couple days later, then quick sent us the info. (And remember, this was over two weeks past the end of auction.)
Bag arrived today. Hangtag missing, but that's ok because I had discerned that fact from the pics. The leather is indeed in wonderful, even perfect condition. The inside, however, was filled with glitter and blusher. And I mean, as if a blush compact had exploded. (No, I did not take pictures. I have enough rehabbing experience that I knew I could get it out without issue, and my overwhelming drive was to pull the lining and wash wash wash!!! You'll just have to take my word for it, but I swear on the Bible, as a Sunday school teacher of tiny children, that it was covered with blush powder.)
Fortunately, 2012 Legacy is lined with a cottony fabric rather than satin. So I pulled the lining, hand-washed it (ahh, the good old rehabbing days), wiped the leather down with a damp towel, and now the lining is drying, inside out, near a light airflow. I'll post pics this evening (I want to use hubby's camera, but have not mastered getting the pics off by myself.) I have not left feedback ... not sure what, even, to say, if I do.
But before I give you the real kicker, let me quickly review:
- 1) Missing hangtag ... not mentioned in description, had to determine from pics.
- 2) No communication or shipment for a week.
- 3) Then I get an email that she won't ship for yet a second week.
- 4) Then she forgets to ship on that 2-week-point day that she claimed she would, and "apparently" had to be reminded.
- 5) "Looks like new", "no wear at all", turns out to be filled with blush powder.
And now the kicker --- her username is also her real name, so while I was waiting those two weeks for shipment, I could not resist checking her out. (Hey, if you're going to make me wait so long, don't be surprised if I go wandering. And given that her username *is* her ebay name, it's not like it was a secret.) Easy to find. Name matches, home city matches, even the city she made that trip to, matches.
Turns out, she's a Coach executive. In fact, shout out to Hyacinth, I'd lay down money that this is one of the execs who authorized that 2012 Legacy video of women dragging their handbags through the grass. Oh yes, Hyacinth, I'm entirely serious. I remember how much you enjoyed that.
And what is more, I now have action shots of this bag at a NYC Coach party. Here's one (I'm cutting faces out, but left the copyright since I obviously do not own it.) ...
That would be Coach's party at the Danziger Gallery, NYC, to celebrate their "Sartorialist" project. That black clutch on the right? Yeah, that would be the one now drying in my dining room.
I'm really kind of amused by all of this. The leather is wonderful, the inside is now clean, and I'm amused that this clutch danced around the Coach NYC parties.
But I do have to say this ---- after the frustration of having it shipped, seeing the blusher explosion, and discovering who the seller really was .... well, suddenly all the pricing games, the pce/fos games, the outlet games, and yes, even Hyacinth's favorite video of handbags being drug on the ground ... it just all makes a little more sense today.
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