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#26,761
Momscoach said:
I got burned on a bag I bought on EBay. I didn’t know it was painted until I dunked it. The paint came off and revealed huge stains. The seller wouldn’t refund, EBay wouldn’t refund. PayPal wouldn’t refund. My CC company wouldn’t chargeback. All because I dunked the bag. When the paint came off, they said I altered the bag. How about the fact that the seller sold me a painted bag without disclosing the paint job in the listing? Talk about fraud. If I didn’t dunk the bag, I would not have found the stains. But because I discovered the paint fraud, they wouldn’t refund me based on a technicality. It was a nightmare.
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That's the policy. It happened to me once at Walmart. Walmart will give a refund for nearly everything, but when I bought a can of jalapenos and discovered there was mold inside the can, they wouldn't refund because I had opened the can.
 
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#26,762
Momscoach said:
I got burned on a bag I bought on EBay. I didn’t know it was painted until I dunked it. The paint came off and revealed huge stains. The seller wouldn’t refund, EBay wouldn’t refund. PayPal wouldn’t refund. My CC company wouldn’t chargeback. All because I dunked the bag. When the paint came off, they said I altered the bag. How about the fact that the seller sold me a painted bag without disclosing the paint job in the listing? Talk about fraud. If I didn’t dunk the bag, I would not have found the stains. But because I discovered the paint fraud, they wouldn’t refund me based on a technicality. It was a nightmare.
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That is so frustrating. The only thing you can do is to review seller accordingly.
I am careful with online buying now trying to avoid bags looks might be shoe polished or painted

whateve said:
That's the policy. It happened to me once at Walmart. Walmart will give a refund for nearly everything, but when I bought a can of jalapenos and discovered there was mold inside the can, they wouldn't refund because I had opened the can.
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That is absolutely redicoulos.
 
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#26,763
Momscoach said:
I got burned on a bag I bought on EBay. I didn’t know it was painted until I dunked it. The paint came off and revealed huge stains. The seller wouldn’t refund, EBay wouldn’t refund. PayPal wouldn’t refund. My CC company wouldn’t chargeback. All because I dunked the bag. When the paint came off, they said I altered the bag. How about the fact that the seller sold me a painted bag without disclosing the paint job in the listing? Talk about fraud. If I didn’t dunk the bag, I would not have found the stains. But because I discovered the paint fraud, they wouldn’t refund me based on a technicality. It was a nightmare.
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Wow that would be so frustrating. Especially with the prices I am seeing since I have started collecting. Ya know, eh 15 or 20 bucks on a bag isn't that big of a loss but 50? 60? I've paid as high as 80 for one. That's a lot different. There are a few different reasons why I try to keep my budget per bag way down, and now I can add another reason - just in case a bag is painted. I hope you were able to repaint it to get it back to a usable state.
 
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artax two said:
Wow that would be so frustrating. Especially with the prices I am seeing since I have started collecting. Ya know, eh 15 or 20 bucks on a bag isn't that big of a loss but 50? 60? I've paid as high as 80 for one. That's a lot different. There are a few different reasons why I try to keep my budget per bag way down, and now I can add another reason - just in case a bag is painted. I hope you were able to repaint it to get it back to a usable state.
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I totaled up what I've lost on purchasing fakes, almost $350. This doesn't count the ones I discovered early enough to return. This is why I became an authenticator.
 
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whateve said:
I totaled up what I've lost on purchasing fakes, almost $350. This doesn't count the ones I discovered early enough to return. This is why I became an authenticator.
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for which we are eternally grateful to you , @BeenBurned and @Hyacinth for looking out for us....especially us newbies.
plus @Catbird9 , @houseof999 for all their great advice.
 
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Narnanz said:
for which we are eternally grateful to you , @BeenBurned and @Hyacinth for looking out for us....especially us newbies.
plus @Catbird9 , @houseof999 for all their great advice.
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YES - I completely agree. And we can probably speak for all the posters here when we say how thankful and grateful we are for those who have been brave and gone before us and are willing to share their knowledge and experience.
 
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I just got in a lovely little convertible clutch in burgundy, and it's got scuffs and scratches, but doesn't seem too bad. It's very flat, however. Would you recommend a dunk before I start to condition?
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I'm not opposed to dunking-- I've done it with my other vintage Coach bags, but, and maybe this is silly, the creed is really nicely stamped and I don't want to chance it fading. I've only had fading with one Creed of three and I'm pretty sure it's because of how I stuffed the bag for drying but I'm still worried.

I guess essentially this is a request; tell me there are risks to dunking but it'll probably be fine!
 
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Saaski said:
I just got in a lovely little convertible clutch in burgundy, and it's got scuffs and scratches, but doesn't seem too bad. It's very flat, however. Would you recommend a dunk before I start to condition?
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I'm not opposed to dunking-- I've done it with my other vintage Coach bags, but, and maybe this is silly, the creed is really nicely stamped and I don't want to chance it fading. I've only had fading with one Creed of three and I'm pretty sure it's because of how I stuffed the bag for drying but I'm still worried.

I guess essentially this is a request; tell me there are risks to dunking but it'll probably be fine!
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As per your request:

There are risks to dunking but it’ll probably be fine.

I have dunked dozens of bags and have never had a creed obliterated.
 
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Saaski said:
I just got in a lovely little convertible clutch in burgundy, and it's got scuffs and scratches, but doesn't seem too bad. It's very flat, however. Would you recommend a dunk before I start to condition?
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I'm not opposed to dunking-- I've done it with my other vintage Coach bags, but, and maybe this is silly, the creed is really nicely stamped and I don't want to chance it fading. I've only had fading with one Creed of three and I'm pretty sure it's because of how I stuffed the bag for drying but I'm still worried.

I guess essentially this is a request; tell me there are risks to dunking but it'll probably be fine!
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There's a slight risk, but to me the benefit of dunking to reshape the bag would outweigh that risk. If the creed is nicely stamped and not too shallow, it will probably be fine.

I'd use cool water, and definitely wouldn't let the bag soak too long.
 
#26,774
LunaSilver said:
Just painted a Navy Devon today. Had this bag for 2 years as a faded black bag. Dunked it 2 days ago and realized it had black shoe polish. Lots of work to remove the shoe polish, but it had lots of color loss so need a paint job.

As to paint streaks, I think thin layer of paint and cpr mix is better, then give it some time to dry before apply second layer. If the second layer is immediately following the first layer, it will cause streak marks, mostly from the semi dry first layer of paint was disturbed.
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Would you post a photo when you’ve finished? I have a black Devon, it’s one of my favorites, but I’m curious about navy!
 
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Finally getting around to burned Chester patch project. I was thinking of hitting up the Boston Coach location to see what kind of customization they could do there but since the obvious happened I decided to do it myself like I originally planned. So I set the snaps in some lovely saddlery leather :) and glued it to the flowers with some E6000. Now comes the part where I punch holes in Chester! Deep breath!! Will update ASAP
 
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