These amazing transformations have inspired me to bring my vintage Coach bags out of their storage bags and hydrate them into new life. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and knowledge.
Coach Rehab and Rescue Club
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I know that @whateve has successfully used zit cream on some ink marks, but it is a bleach and I don't think that it would work well on a red bag. You could just try dunking the bag in dawn soap and water and using your finger to massage the ink marks to see if you can lighten them - just an idea.
Thanks. I think you're right, zit cream would probably bleach the red leather. Massaging the ink mark during a dunk might help. I've had good success with a toothpick dipped in alcohol to lighten pen marks on pebbled (Sonoma) leather in light shades, but I've never tried alcohol on smooth leather. And red leather is so iffy.
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I once had luck removing ink stains using alcohol on a paper towel and the ink absorbed onto the paper towel. (Viva type paper towel). I am unable to say if this is a tried and true method since I only attempted it once.
the benzoyl peroxide will bleach the red but I still think you are better off bleaching the ink with a toothpick, because you can do more with a white line on a bag than an ink line on a bag.
I bleached a fine line of ink on a Sonoma nubuck dark bag, I had a white line then but I could deal with that. Just a thought.
OK now shopgoodwill is selling a 9020 for $325?! It is new/unused apparently but come on.
The ergos always sell at crazy prices! I don’t think I’ve seen one sell for less than $100, even if it has stains, scratches etcOK now shopgoodwill is selling a 9020 for $325?! It is new/unused apparently but come on.
How exactly does someone know what to price an item for sale? If it is an older model purse but never used, do you ask ask comparable to what you can find on eBay? Or is there a resource that can tell you more accurate current value?
Price is based on so many things, the condition of the item, the rarity and/or color of the item, and your own personal ideas on what you'd accept for it. When I rehab a bag, and give it my TLC, time, attention, and materials, it's worth so much more to me. If I'm going to sell it, I'll want more money than the average "found this in the dustbin and what you see is what you get." It's not a science and I know of no definitive tool to find a good price. I personally see what similar items are selling for (not just on ebay but across the 'net) and more importantly, what they actually sold for. Ebay is pretty good for giving you a "median sold for price" when you're listing an item. The problem is, so many sellers mislabel things and/or don't know what they have. So that price can be lower than what you should sell it for.
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I spent a lot of time looking for a nice small notebook that I would want to keep in my bag. I finally found this traveler notebook. It’s a leather cover with two elastics - one to hold it closed, and the other to hold in paoer, etc. I have a zipper plastic sleeve holding a pen. If the pen were to explode, I think it would be contained in the sleeve.
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