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#5,853
Getting fakes from Japanese sellers is nearly impossible!

seller kyounokura-japan
https://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-101-...h=item2ac3353bac:g:MRYAAOSw5i5cU7OU:rk:2:pf:0

From the text of the listing:
Dear Costomers
All our items are 100% authentic
AACD is the Association Against Counterfeit Product Distribution.
Over 100 famous brand distributors in Japan belong to them
and we are one of them.
Some items do not come with accessories like a guarantee card
or originla box becausethey are second handed ones.
However we never sell fake products and always provide genuine ones.
If you worry about our item, contact us before purchase.
 
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#5,854
BeenBurned said:
Getting fakes from Japanese sellers is nearly impossible!

seller kyounokura-japan
https://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-101-...h=item2ac3353bac:g:MRYAAOSw5i5cU7OU:rk:2:pf:0

From the text of the listing:
Dear Costomers
All our items are 100% authentic
AACD is the Association Against Counterfeit Product Distribution.
Over 100 famous brand distributors in Japan belong to them
and we are one of them.
Some items do not come with accessories like a guarantee card
or originla box becausethey are second handed ones.
However we never sell fake products and always provide genuine ones.
If you worry about our item, contact us before purchase.
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And ebay didn't remove the listing so it ended as unsold and has been relisted:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-101-45-Shoulder-Bag-2-WAY-Leather-/183675624609
 
#5,857
seller luxus-and-invoco

This is interesting from the listing's description:
"Authenticity: All of our items are checked by our in house authenticator in order to guarantee our items are 100% authentic."

Although it was sold, I'm hoping that if removed, the buyer might question it and hopefully get a refund. (The ponytail scarf might be okay.)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Women-039-s-Beige-Leather-Ergo-One-Strap-Medium-Shoulder-Bag-Purse-D6J-9219-/113252303939?hash=item1a5e5d0443:g:6K4AAOSwE1BbnWfL&nma=true&si=R1KZE2gbI7%2FqXEL4yI4b6utHkH8%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
 
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#5,858
seller mchammerskin

Although I didn't see previous listings for this POS, based on the seller's rant (in the description), it's been removed twice already.

If you've seen this item listed before and noticed it disappeared, allow me to explain why. Some hater keeps reporting this listing to eBay. It was removed once for keyword spamming. And again, as someone reported it for being a fake. It's NOT a fake! This handbag belongs to my girlfriend. She's a total Fashionista! I am not at all!

and a bit more:

If you bid and win, if for any reason you suspect it's not real, contact me and I will happily issue a refund to you. But I guarantee that won't happen because I've never sold a fake item, ever! Nor would my girlfriend ever be caught dead rocking a fake. She would rather die a slow painful death. Like I said, total Fashionista. If you are the malcontent reporting this listing, over and over, it's going to be okay. I'm sorry whatever your parents did to you to make you this disgruntled, unhappy, basement-dwelling person, but it's going to be okay.

Maybe #3 will be a charm and he'll get the message.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/223367285429

And for your viewing enjoyment:
mchammerskin fake coach front.jpg mchammerskin fake coach back.jpg mchammerskin fake coach creed.jpg
 
#5,861
BeenBurned said:
seller
This is interesting from the listing's description:
"Authenticity: All of our items are checked by our in house authenticator in order to guarantee our items are 100% authentic."

Although it was sold, I'm hoping that if removed, the buyer might question it and hopefully get a refund. (The ponytail scarf might be okay.)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Women-039-s-Beige-Leather-Ergo-One-Strap-Medium-Shoulder-Bag-Purse-D6J-9219-/113252303939?hash=item1a5e5d0443:g:6K4AAOSwE1BbnWfL&nma=true&si=R1KZE2gbI7%2FqXEL4yI4b6utHkH8%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
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Just to add a comment, since the photo showing the fake D6J-9219 serial number has been removed:
Style 9219 Ergo Small Zip wasn't even introduced until Fall 2002. The "6" in the D6J- serial prefix is the year code for 1996. Also the genuine D6J- serial prefix was ONLY used in clothing items such as leather coats and jackets, which were not made in the same plants as handbags.

Here's the Wayback for December 7, 2002 showing "NEW" in front of the style name:
http://web.archive.org/web/20021207...y_id=68&show_bc=1&base_index=0&sort_by_price=

The seller also had a link to one of those bogus "authenticity guides" in the listing, in which at least 80 percent of the information was wrong, Not just dates that were roughly 10 years off, but also quoting only the two most common pre- and post-1994 creed wordings followed by this statement:
"You can be quite certain that a bag is inauthentic if you examine its creed and find either: 1) at least one misspelling or 2) at least one word or phrase inconsistent with either of the two versions of the creed above."
... which completely ignores the fact that even in just the years between 1990 and 2000, genuine bags from ALL these lines - Dakota, Sheridan, Madison, Neo, Sonoma, Berkeley, and Gramercy, plus any bags made of any type of fabric or Nubuc plus all of the 1996 US Olympic Games items plus many travel items plus one or two other styles I can't think of at the moment, ALL HAD CREEDS THAT BROKE THE "RULE" POSTED IN THAT USELESS AND DANGEROUS "GUIDE". And given the dozens of different leathers and fabrics used in newer bags made after 2000, there are probably dozens more different creed wordings.

And that's just over one 10-year period. THAT'S why the Salearea Guides that I researched and wrote for Salearea come down so hard on those bloody "Coach authenticity guides", and probably why a lot of perfectly genuine Coach bags are reported to Ebay or returned to the seller as "fake". When self-anointed experts disguise BS as wisdom, that's what happens. The links to that guide in the Ebay listings seem to have been removed but the guide is still on the seller's website.

I'll say it again - no matter where they're posted or how many alleged "authenticators swear by them and claim they're accurate, AT LEAST 95 PERCENT OF SO-CALLED COACH AUTHENTICITY GUIDES ARE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING COMPETENTLY RESEARCHED, AND ARE FULL OF MISINFORMATION, HALF-TRUTHS, OUTDATED EXAMPLES, NONSENSICAL "RULES", OR JUST PLAIN LIES AND BS. DON'T EVER DEPEND ON THEM! And if you see a seller who claims to use them as their basis for authentication, I'd look for another seller.
 
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