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I may have missed some of your posts. How did you get a vintage bag if not from resellers?
well that was a dumb way of me to say that
I guess I mean "reseller" in the Instagram hash tagging, selling inside the H stores, huge markup, fancy website, exorbitant shipping kind of way. To me the sellers of vintage items are not resellers in the same way. I think of them more as vintage or antiques dealers or tradespeople if that makes sense, people who sell older bags in different conditions at reasonable prices.
Yes, big antique fairs typically have a couple of vendors with a sizeable selection of bags. But how does anyone know the bags are authentic? Not meaning to be argumentative, I just never considered getting a bag from them. I can tell to my satisfaction whether a silver bracelet is authentic. But maybe I'm missing out on some good bags.
exactly, I'm not knocking it as an enterprise but I work too hard to double down on a B or a K. But I also like to buy lots of other things from H and elsewhere, I suppose I give my store the same premiums in other sales but I get to keep and enjoy that stuff
I guess that's the risk everyone buy preloved has to take. For me I use private authentication which I pay for in advance of buying so I don't authenticate anything I'm not serious about and research sellers etc before buying. I have 3 preloved bags and I researched the style, details, sellers, past transactions, paid for authentication and feel confident in my purchases. I have a 20 year old Massai, a 16 year old HAC and a 39 year old Kelly if anyone is interested in what I'm referring to. Together they cost what a new B40 costs.
Yes, as Mindi said I meant antiques dealers as an analogy. I don't know enough to buy from a dealer at a show unless I was referred by a long time collector that they were a reputable source. There are lots of amazing bags out there though and lots and lots of genuinely helpful and honest sellers, there are just way more people out there with fakes so due diligence and a little risk is required.
I didn't even know there were private authentication services who could supply info or at least some details on a particular bag. How does one find out about those, who they are, for example? I guess I would buy the bag, and try to spa it and if it was rejected, I'd be really mad at the seller. It used to be that some credit cards, maybe Visa?, would allow you to reverse the transaction if in some sense the sale was fraudulent.
lol - oh yes, when it comes to colors, styles, etc. sometimes I do the opposite of what he says and then he asks why I bothered asking, but then asking made clear that I didn't want what he suggested.However, when it comes to just making the purchase itself - well, I wouldn't like it if one day out of the blue he came home with a new car or some such.
Lol. Same here. He gets to say why did you ask me if you already knew what you would like?
But that's just it! Sometimes it takes hearing someone else's opinion to realize what you really wanted all along. It mostly just happens to be his opinion hehe.
exactly, I'm not knocking it as an enterprise but I work too hard to double down on a B or a K. But I also like to buy lots of other things from H and elsewhere, I suppose I give my store the same premiums in other sales but I get to keep and enjoy that stuff
Mrs O I never asked this question because I was afraid that this would interfere with the privacy principle here. Are you a fashion designer and you run your own business correct?
I don't mind you asking but I don't share exactly what I do as it makes me identifiable off tPF. I only dreamt of being a fashion designer but I'm too impatient a seamstress to ever produce the quality i would want.
I do run my own creative business.