Thanks so much Lake Effect. Sorry I missed your message, I really appreciate you wanting to help me figure this one out [emoji4]
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Thanks so much Lake Effect. Sorry I missed your message, I really appreciate you wanting to help me figure this one out [emoji4]
Good morning.. this item is being sold online locally here in our country.. i am planning to purchase it but am not sure if it is fake or original.. may i ask for your help? Thank you
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You need to post in the Authenticate thread.
You've posted there before so you may have some idea what we're going to say. Because of the very serious problem of counterfeits being made and sold in the Philippines, we do NOT RECOMMEND that anyone, even the people who live there, buy highly-faked brands like Coach from private sellers. There aren't enough of the right photos to authenticate that bag anyway, but buying from a third party who has no proof that the bag is genuine and no way you can force her to give a full refund if the bag turns out to be fake is dangerous and we won't authenticate any bag under thoise circumstances. I STRONGLY recommend that residents of the P.I. buy their Coaches and other designer brands at the manufacturers' own stores or their counters or boutiques located in large and trusted department stores.
You've already come close to buying at least one fake Coach, and from someone you thought of as a friend of a friend. You need to stop taking chances.
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Hi, Can I have some assistance with identifying this bag? I did post it on the AT thread and haven’t heard back yet but when I googled this number, nothing like it comes up. Thank you so much [emoji4]
Are you still asking about the Limited Edition bag? I'm not sure why we're discussing this bag across 2 different forums?
I'll refer back to my post at ATC and the comments from older posts that I saved several years ago.
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...ost-for-format.889527/page-2280#post-32867581
and
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...ost-for-format.889527/page-2280#post-32867752
The fact that we have multiple creed stamps of 3 different bags, both 9074 and 9075, seems to be pretty good proof that both styles were Limited Editions. I found a "Bonnie Retro Hobo" mentioned on the Wayback for the correct time period but the link to the actual page was dead. It sounds like a description that would fit the bag since it's definitely a remake of a Cashin style..
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What other information are you looking for?
Hi ma’am.. sorry for the wrong thread.. would post in the authenticate thread in a while..
Re outlet stores in the states, there are online sellers here offering to buy the bags from outlet stores in the states, would you recommend these buyers? Thank you so much again ma’am.
Re outlet stores in the states, there are online sellers here offering to buy the bags from outlet stores in the states, would you recommend these buyers? Thank you so much again ma’am.
ma
Hi ma’am.. sorry for the wrong thread.. would post in the authenticate thread in a while..
Re outlet stores in the states, there are online sellers here offering to buy the bags from outlet stores in the states, would you recommend these buyers? Thank you so much again ma’am.
ma
No, i would NOT recommend them. How do you know that they're not lying about where they got the bags? Did you know that sellers and distributors of counterfeit merchandise have their own private internet forums and social media sites where they discuss how to convince buyers that their items are genuine, as well as all sorts of details about construction and what kind of details make their fakes seem more genuine?
There ARE people who come to the US and buy large number of Coaches and other hard to find designer brands at our outlet stores, we see them when we shop there, they're buying 15 or 20 bags or more at the same time and have a group of friends or family members helping them carry their purchases back to the tour buses. The big new outlet mall and many of the hotels near Chicago's biggest airport even have special deals for international travelers who come here just to shop. Although I don't really know how to speak any other language except English, I can usually recognise Chinese or Tagalog when I hear it, and those are the languages those volume buyers usually speak so I know what countries they're going back to.
But since the counterfeit sellers know about those buyers too, why wouldn't they claim to be doing the same thing? When it comes to making money by doing something that's against the law, people LIE. There's no way to know it, they may even have receipt for genuine bags but that doesn't prove the one you're buying from them is also genuine. They can even buy fake receipts on the internet. Fakes from the Philippines can be very hard to recognise, and of course because they're so close, many Chinese fakes makers sell their merchandise in the P.I. or smuggle fakes into the country. A country made up of dozens or hundreds of islands surrounded by an ocean and so close to the biggest fakes-making country in the world is an attractive place for them to do business and with thousands of kilometers of coastline it's impossible for the Filippino government to stop them all. It's a difficult situation for people who want genuine merchandise, but maybe the government there needs to find better ways of dealing with with counterfeit makers and sellers from both the P.I. and nearby countries.
What about the big Phillipine department stores? Do any of them have areas where they sell Coach? Usually the big store chains like Macy's here in the US will have Coach counters and if you're on their mailing list they'll send you notices of sales. The big stores usually have more sales on Coach than the full-price Coach stores do. We're lucky to have a lot of Coach outlet stores here in the US but that's because the full-price Coach stores never used to have sales until a few years ago, that's why they started building outlet stores almost 30 years ago.
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Thank you sooo much for all you assistance with everything [emoji4] I was thanking her from a few days ago, after I posted it in the AT. I later posted here to see if anyone knew the name of the bag, before I heard back on the AT thread, so I could look it up online. I missed her post here from a few days and wanted to thank her for trying to help me figure out what the bag was called.
I did see all the information in the AT thread while it was all getting figured out. Thanks again for the authentication and the added information you posted here as well [emoji4]
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Hello - is this the School Bag Clutch?
What are the measurements? If it measures 12x9x1 it may be an earlier version of the 9695 School Bag. If they're smaller, it's a style I'm not familiar with. It seems a bit big in the photos to be considered a clutch. The School Bag pics in my catalog show the mountings for the removeable shoulder strap on the sides of the bag, not the back.
I posted catalog photos of The School Bag in the Authenticate thread. Please decide which thread you want to keep this discussion on. It can get confusing when a discussion about the same item gets spread out, although the question you posted at the Authenticate thread was really about identification and not authentication and probably should have been posted in THIS thread in the first place. I'll repost the catalog pic here to save confusion, note the different strap mountings:
ETA - Found it, if the measurements are 16x10x1.5 inches. It's a Shoulder Portfolio, style 5160 from the same time period (mid 1980s) as the School Bag:
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Yes, my apologies @whateve I was definitely in the wrong thread earlier and couldn't figure out how to delete my postings.
This pic (top left corner) is what leads me to think it may be the clutch. I am waiting to hear from the seller on the dimensions. I can't get a good zoom on the catalog page to tell where the straps actually attach.
Yes, my apologies @whateve I was definitely in the wrong thread earlier and couldn't figure out how to delete my postings.
This pic (top left corner) is what leads me to think it may be the clutch. I am waiting to hear from the seller on the dimensions. I can't get a good zoom on the catalog page to tell where the straps actually attach.
See the post above this one.
The 1974 bag must be an older version or a different style. It's not the same bag as the black one you posted, it's much smaller.
I found the original page those catalog drawings came from but the pic is still too small to read the details.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PZ1KboOhpbY/T4MOJ6hxKkI/AAAAAAAAAK8/ZX7CZTP_gsY/s1600/Coach+Scroll.jpg
ETA - I enlarged it a bit and it looks like the style number might be 9095 but that's just a wild guess. measurements could be 11.5x9x1 inch but again that's just a guess. I doubt if it's the black bag in your post 13345, the proportions of the top handles and turnlock tabs aren't the same, and the catalogs they're in are at least 10 years apart..
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That is cute! I've never gotten my hands on that one. I don't need any encouragement to get more! The enamel one I have is a St. Bernard.
