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She's very sweet and responsive. I did not end up purchasing the initial bag I wanted but she still answered all my questions. Due to her attentiveness and kindness, I ended up buying a similar bag a few weeks later. So feel free to ask her any questions you have.


I agree- she is very responsive and will send extra pics and videos. Her prices are really reasonable and much more reasonable than other vintage resellers. I bought a GORGEOUS beige classic flap from her, series 1- In unbelievable condition.
 
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Has anyone bought from lbjdlaw on ebay? The personal shopper is based in US. I have never bought from US before. Is it legit and are there any additional costs if anyone has made such a purchase. All your help is really really appreciated. Thank you so much.
I am located in the USA. I just purchased a new Chanel Mini Reissue and it came in a FULL SET (including the box, Chanel tissue packaging and the cloth camelia... now it's made of paper :biggrin:, dust bag, care booklet with cleaning cloth, tags and the gift receipt from the Sak's Chanel boutique where they purchased the bag from - I asked for the receipt and luckily, it was available. ;) I saw their store on Ebay, however, they do not take offers on this bag.
I discovered in this forum that they also have Instagram, so I went there and saw that they do PayPal Invoice (which made me feel confident to purchase because PayPal has a Purchase Protection for Buyers and Paypal have already intervened for me twice from other Resellers in the past for "inaccurate descriptions of items" and got full refunds, including shipping :tup:).
Anyway, back to LBJDLAW... there was no price published on their Instagram, so I reached out via private messaging. Their price was lesser on Instagram than on their Ebay Store. I think it has something to do with Ebay's 12.99% plus $0.30 Seller fees (if I'm not mistaken).
Aside from the cost of the bag, I also paid for the 3% Paypal processing fee (which some Sellers would cover themselves) plus state tax(not sure about international duties and taxes). So, I purchased last Saturday afternoon and they shipped it via FedEx Ground on Monday and I got it yesterday, Thursday. The bag is beautiful and as described. I usually immediately have a bad feeling when something is odd about how a bag looks. The bag, even the packaging tissue, the camelia, etc. looked and felt legit, so I believe that what I got is authentic... I'm keeping the bag and I'm happy with this purchase and with my transaction with LBJDLAW. Hope this helps.
 
Hi guys! I just wanted to recommend an Instagram seller that I haven't seen any reviews for yet on here. It's "Adore Adored", an account based in Canada (@adore_adored). I followed her for a little while, did some research, and then I noticed a month or so ago she had a small rose gold hardware classic flap for sale at a very reasonable (still market, but reasonable for resellers haha) price so I inquired about it - she had sourced it for another client, but said for a sourcing fee she could try to find one for me as well at the current small CF market price (in CAD). The fee would come out of the total cost of the bag if she could find it, or she would refund the money after a month. I decided to gamble on it, since it was less than $200 USD for me (all her prices are in CAD) and the overall price of the bag would be less than any of the CFs available on FP (in honestly worse condition) or getting a CF from a boutique (since I live in a high tax state now!). And I really had my eye on the rose gold HW :smile: After about 3 weeks she found one for me and it just arrived today! She accepts PayPal invoice for the 4% fee, she is *super* responsive with messages (she even sends over a sweet voice message to new customers that's like "hey I'm real, not a bot!" lol), she sent tons of pictures, disclosed all (minor) flaws and made a packaging video. The bag came with a full set; box, dust bag, camelia, receipt, booklet. I even messaged her at one point thinking of backing out and losing my sourcing fee because I started wondering if I should have just gotten the medium CF ghw directly from the boutique instead, and she responded super patiently and didn't pressure me at all - she said it was most important for me to go with the bag I ultimately wanted! Having briefly bought (but returned) a CF from the boutique, I definitely can't see any difference or reason to think this isn't an authentic bag, and she uses entropy and offers to refund any customer plus $100 extra for the trouble if a bag ever does turn out to be fake, so I feel pretty confident in her sourcing and authenticating! So anyways, overall a 10 out of 10 experience for me :smile:

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Hi everyone, I am considering buying from timelesslikeaudrey but I am concerned about custom duties (living in the netherlands in Europe). Usually when I buy some small stuff from e.g. The US I always get charged custom fees of around 27% of the amount I bought. I have askes timelesslikeaudrey what their experience is when shipping to Europe, and she told me that people usually only get charged €30 or so. Has anyone from Europe/the Netherlands experience with buying from Australia?
 
What’s everyone’s opinion about buying preloved if it doesn’t come with its authenticity card and only box and Dustbag etc?

the Insta seller has a brick and mortar store and is known to be legit in Australia so I’m not questioning the business’ reputation regarding it’s authenticity but if I decide to resell in the future will it be a problem?
Thank you
 
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