Hi girls!
Thank you for taking the time to read my thread and writing!
I was so happy that this situation ended like this! I was lucky that the seller was honest indeed, because I was very anxious all this time. I was so dissapointed to see the bag like this, it is the first time I am returning a bag, but I could not close my eyes to these defects. Even if a bag is a store display and the used a handful of times, how can it end up like this? Dry leather, discoloration, severe wear, not only at the corners, but on other parts as well...
I can tell you that I was relieved when the seller accpeted the return, I was unhappy to have the bag, and I had never open a dispute before.
Then the delay because of the weather, the fact that the seller closed the case that she had opened, caused me a lot of stress!
I laughed a lot with your examples (beach bag, bricks, ground, car)
I believe that even if the pics show some defects (and I assure you that in real life it was much-much worse), the thing that persuade a buyer to buy, is the description. I thought that the wear should be very light, if the bag has been used a handful of times, and obviously everyone could have been confused by this.
If google takes the pictures form here, and everyone can search and save them, and then use them, it is scary because so many pictures are posted here... I haven't thought of it, but doing a little search now, I found some pictures of bags posted here, as results on google pics.
I just found the second picture that seems to be from a different bag!
It is from here, you can find it at the ''all about saskia'' thread
http://forum.purseblog.com/chloe-reference-library/all-about-saskia-317047.html
post #14
I have seen these picas in the past, but I haven't searched it lately and I didn't remember it. The pic at the auction is small.
I don't know if this pic is on google.