Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:23:27 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: Your invoice for eBay purchases - item #6869522127, Auth LOUIS VUITTON cuir EPI Green SPEEDY 30 handbag bag
To: "M"
Well, Escrow is the best solution for sensitive items, especially LV, as everybody knows, a lot of fakes going on. PayPal is safe too. It's up to you, I don't mind how do you make payments. I don't know what are you worrying about. I sell Tiffany & Co. as well as LV all the time, not many but always. You are the first one who worries about my item.
LV stores don't do authentication at all. When someone bring a LV to their store and ask for authentication, sales representatives just take a look and tell this whether authentic or not base on their knowledge and kindness. They don't have the responsibilities for what they said and won't handle any legal problems. All LV stores do is just selling.
I never bought LVs in the US because it's more expensive, In Fance or Japan, Hong Kong, MAYBE the US, if you take your item to a LV store and would like to have a authentication, they will simply ask you to sign an agreement, that saying you are agree them to send your item to French Headquarters and let them authenticate. After the professionals did their job, and your item is proved authentic, your'll get back your item and an official authenticity statement. But if they determined your item is not authentic, they will send you a statement that saying "thank you for participate...your item is not authentic...they will destroy it...", then you can use this official statement for claim, and it's the most powerful judgement. All above is no cost and done in 5 to 10 days.
You can get it authenticated at your local LV store. They will give a visual inspection. Most likely they can tell you the truth, but not guarantee accurate. Otherwise, you can use
www.mypoupette.com. The site provides LV authentication service.
Do you know you can do this by yourself? Educate yourself so you won't get ripped off? Here's what I normally wrote in my listings:
After viewing the pictures, if you're a LV lover or user, you can definitely tell whether this bag is authentic or fake. Please check out eBay Guide: Top Ten Tips to Buying Authentic Louis Vuitton on eBay written by ebayer
FASHIONPHILE, so you can prove our LVs by yourself.
If you've used LV, you can easily authenticate by yourself WITHOUT taking any further steps. A lot of fakes in China Town, real is real, fake is fake, fake CANNOT knock-off the real thing, no matter a good fake or a bad fake, cause it's fake! No compareson! No exception!
M wrote:
It was available in the US store some time ago. I called LV customer
relations and verified the info. I ask the additional questions because
I initially was going to do escrow but the cost was more than usual. So
are you saying that the LV store in New York can't authenticate this
bag? If not, who can?
--m