FASHIONPHILE sold my stolen items KNOWINGLY!!

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I am writing this post to inform the general public and fellow luxury shoppers of my experience dealing with FASHIONPHILE and its employees in the last 6 months - also to inform you that the company has no morals or empathy and has knowingly sold stolen good.

To cut a long story short - My apartment was burglarized in February 2022. All of my designer items including Purses, SLGs, Shoes, Jewelry - Van Cleef & Arpels), Clothing, Watches and personal documents were stolen. This incident was reported to the police and well documented.

A few weeks later I was searching for items to rebuy to replace my stolen goods, this is when I discover MY items being sold on the FASHIONPHILE.COM website. The way i could confirm this was not only because of the unique marks due to wear on some of my bags but the SERIAL CODES matching my receipts for my Chanel purses and Van Cleef & Arpels Jewelry.

I immediately informed Fashionphile's Loss and Prevention Manager as well as its owners and the Police and shared evidence to all parties proving these items were mine. With the LAPD help they subpoenaed FASHIONPHILEs records and found that my items were sold by the same person / alias. FASHIONPHILE agreed to remove some, NOT ALL of my items off their website pending investigation. They were fully aware they were in possession of stolen goods.

Not only are they receiving stolen goods via mail without proper verification and authentication of the goods, they are not following THE LAW AND their protocols as outlined on their website: https://help.fashionphile.com/s/art...-prevent-stolen-merchandise-from-being-resold

Fast forward months later going back and forth between my lawyer, FASHIONPHILE and the LAPD - FASHIONPHILE agreed to only return my Chanel Purses and Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry as they had unique 1 of 1 serial codes that matched by receipts. They refused to return my other items, mind you - they SOLD some of my items in the process KNOWING THEY ARE STOLEN as the police informed them & me showing ownership of these others purses, SLGs and jewelry.

This week - FASHIONPHILE agreed to resell back the 8 of the 28 items they had remaining at their Neiman Marcus BH location. I walk into the office with hopes i can negotiate on receiving back my items in goodwill due to the fact they have broken protocol and laws in the process of this case. They refused to negotiate and sold me back my items for the price they paid out the robber/seller.

Please let me know if you have experienced a similar matter with them or any advice you can give me. Also its very fishy - alot of their employees have been leaving lately.... anyone know whats going on internally?

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I'm almost positive that whatever this is, you need to be doing it offline, with legal and LE assistance, and without further drama. You've already accused this business here (and elsewhere in social media?) of crimes, so you might want to think about the outcome you want and how you may or may not be acting in your own best interest.
 
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This is some excellent advice.
I'm almost positive that whatever this is, you need to be doing it offline, with legal and LE assistance, and without further drama. You've already accused this business here (and elsewhere in social media?) of crimes, so you might want to think about the outcome you want and how you may or may not be acting in your own best interest.
 
I am writing this post to inform the general public and fellow luxury shoppers of my experience dealing with FASHIONPHILE and its employees in the last 6 months - also to inform you that the company has no morals or empathy and has knowingly sold stolen good.

To cut a long story short - My apartment was burglarized in February 2022. All of my designer items including Purses, SLGs, Shoes, Jewelry - Van Cleef & Arpels), Clothing, Watches and personal documents were stolen. This incident was reported to the police and well documented.

A few weeks later I was searching for items to rebuy to replace my stolen goods, this is when I discover MY items being sold on the FASHIONPHILE.COM website. The way i could confirm this was not only because of the unique marks due to wear on some of my bags but the SERIAL CODES matching my receipts for my Chanel purses and Van Cleef & Arpels Jewelry.

I immediately informed Fashionphile's Loss and Prevention Manager as well as its owners and the Police and shared evidence to all parties proving these items were mine. With the LAPD help they subpoenaed FASHIONPHILEs records and found that my items were sold by the same person / alias. FASHIONPHILE agreed to remove some, NOT ALL of my items off their website pending investigation. They were fully aware they were in possession of stolen goods.

Not only are they receiving stolen goods via mail without proper verification and authentication of the goods, they are not following THE LAW AND their protocols as outlined on their website: https://help.fashionphile.com/s/art...-prevent-stolen-merchandise-from-being-resold

Fast forward months later going back and forth between my lawyer, FASHIONPHILE and the LAPD - FASHIONPHILE agreed to only return my Chanel Purses and Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry as they had unique 1 of 1 serial codes that matched by receipts. They refused to return my other items, mind you - they SOLD some of my items in the process KNOWING THEY ARE STOLEN as the police informed them & me showing ownership of these others purses, SLGs and jewelry.

This week - FASHIONPHILE agreed to resell back the 8 of the 28 items they had remaining at their Neiman Marcus BH location. I walk into the office with hopes i can negotiate on receiving back my items in goodwill due to the fact they have broken protocol and laws in the process of this case. They refused to negotiate and sold me back my items for the price they paid out the robber/seller.

Please let me know if you have experienced a similar matter with them or any advice you can give me. Also its very fishy - alot of their employees have been leaving lately.... anyone know whats going on internally?

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Wow. They know your items were stolen and that they were in receipt of stolen property. I don't think there's anything wrong with you posting about it here. I'm glad you did.
 
Why would you have to buy back items that they knew were sold to them as stolen items that were yours? They should have taken the loss and given you back your items free of charge, not buy them back. Yikes!!!
Maybe because her insurance paid her out? If so she'd be exercising fraud herself--getting the goods back for free + collecting the insurance money.

I'm glad the story was shared; I'm sure they do have stolen goods on their site from time to time, and it's a reminder that we have to be careful buying/selling high end goods.
 
Maybe because her insurance paid her out? If so she'd be exercising fraud herself--getting the goods back for free + collecting the insurance money.

I'm glad the story was shared; I'm sure they do have stolen goods on their site from time to time, and it's a reminder that we have to be careful buying/selling high end goods.
I get that if that was the case but no insurance information or payout was mentioned in the post so I based my answer on the info provided.
 
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This whole situation sucks. I don't see how they can legally sell something when you have informed them it's stolen and given them a police report. Seems like they should have to hold them till the whole situation is resolved. I wonder what kind of lawyer could help you with this. It's a lot of your personal time and once the items are gone they are gone. I am not saying they should have been instantly returned to you but FP should not sell them until the whole issue is settled. If you have a police report, the same seller is selling all of them and the ones that do have unique codes are verified to be yours then all the items should be held. I hope a lawyer can help you. A big company like this should not be in a rush to sell possible stolen personal items.
 
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