thank you, however I have to disagree with you on the dodgy website... that is not an ebay like website.
https://www.tingtingchen.com/about.php they don't even claim to be, and what do they sell? only high end luxury brands. Ok, I got the part with apples and oranges, but my doubt is that my apple was invented whilst the orange is the real deal. how come one has serial number and different creed patch and mine hasn't got one? If they are similar models how can coach not keep the details consistent? Sure if it is a mff product why I can't find on the whole wide web a reliable source that sold this model? at least in the cache version...
of all 6 results, 1 is totally different, 3 don't show the inside, and 1 (the ash colour) has got s lighyly different leather patch inside. My point is, if I am suspicious of an item I bough on ebay why should I trust other ebay listings?
For the amount of asian shops having this on sale is much higher than the US listings on the bay...
Ashan - I have NO idea why you're refusing to listen to the experts here, of whom BeenBurned is the very best you could ever hope to find when it comes to Coach products, especially recent ones. What she's already posted is 100 percent correct but you seem to have your fingers stuck in your ears and refuse to listen.
POINTS I'M GOING TO CONFIRM:
(and yes, I'm going to be a bit sarcastic because I get
extremely annoyed at people who ask for help and don't listen to or believe what you're telling them)
1- You can only compare bags with the SAME EXACT STYLE NUMBER. And for finer details such as creed stampings, you can only compare bags with the SAME STYLE NUMBER AND PRODUCTION CODES SHOWING THE BAGS WERE MADE IN THE SAME MONTH, YEAR AND PLANT. Does that seem like a difficult thing to understand? Why do you think 2 different style bags made two years apart should be identical? BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT, AND WERE NEVER INTENDED TO BE.
2- Coach newer cross-grain leathers often DON't smell or feel like leather. Walk your butt into a Coach store, pick up a few, and SMELL.
3- Coach sometimes doubles or reinforces stitching. So what?
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IF the laptop sleeve is missing or you think it is, why do you think that makes it fake? With items sold through the outlets, and sometimes and even through full-price stores, often employees remove things like hangtags and small parts for other customers. They DON'T order replacements for what was removed.
HOWEVER
NONE OF THE OTHER EXAMPLES I'VE FOUND OF THIS STYLE HAVE A LAPTOP SLEEVE WITH A TAB EITHER. Why do you feel yours should have one?
4- you asked
"What is strange is,...how could this model just disappear all of a sudden from the coach website, not even cached (I checked) can't be found. Not one retailer has it in stock."
BECAUSE IT WAS A STYLE MADE FOR THE FACTORY OUTLET STORES AS SHOWN BY THE "F" IN FRONT OF THE STYLE NUMBER, AND OUTLET-EXCLUSIVE ITEMS WILL NEVER APPEAR ON THE COACH.COM WEBSITE. AND IF THEY'RE SOLD OUT, THEY WON'T BE IN ANY STORES EITHER, OUTLET OR OTHERWISE.
5- more questions that have already basically been answered but you weren't paying attention:
how come one has serial number and different creed patch and mine hasn't got one?
because Coach stopped stamping serial numbers in bags for almost 3 years including the period when yours was made. That information is all over this forum site in dozens of posts and also in places like the Daria48 Fake Coach Numbers List at Ebay: THAT'S WHY THAT TINY WHITE TAG IS INSIDE THE POCKET
Part 1
https://www.ebay.com/gds/Fake-Coach-Serial-Numbers-NT-4903-and-more-part-1-/10000000244432249/g.html
Part 2
https://www.ebay.com/gds/Fake-Coach-Serial-Numbers-Part-2-/10000000179041909/g.html
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hank you, however I have to disagree with you on the dodgy website... that is not an ebay like website.
Why do you believ it's a dodgy website? Do you think all sites outside the US have to look like Ebay? And how closely did you look? Did you even notice that
tingtingchen.com is NOT a retail sales website???
It's a BLOG AND REFERENCE SITE THAT LISTS CURRENT AND RECENT SALE PRICES AT THE COACH FACTORY STORES OUTLET SALES, JUST LIKE a site many of us use, "coachfactoryoutlets.blogspot.com". You couldn't buy anything from them if you tried. So how does that make them dodgy???
If they are similar models how can coach not keep the details consistent?
Because "similar" doesnt mean "identical". Check your online dictionary. If they were made to be identical they MIGHT have had the same style number. Or they might not
Sure if it is a mff product why I can't find on the whole wide web a reliable source that sold this model?
Because mff items were almost never sold to large stores for resale, they were already "marked down" and sold at the outlets and on the FOS - Factory Online Sales.
My point is, if I am suspicious of an item I bough on ebay why should I trust other ebay listings?
They're NOT always trustworthy. But if half a dozen sellers have the same style bag from the outlet and all the details among them are identical, they're probably genuine. And they're a LOT more trustworthy than the comments and unsustainable conclusions you're coming up with, without knowing the facts or accepting the facts when they're explained to you.
If you don't like the tone of my answers, sorry. But you've had a full explanation from the best in the business and if you still refuse to believe it I'm not going to waste any more of my time on the subject. The bag you have looks perfectly genuine.
GOOD NIGHT.
DAMN, I haven't exploded in a long time. I needed that.