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.
