YW!
Coach sends the replacement hangtag free of charge. They'll ask you for the full style number from the creed including the letters and numbers before and after the dash, and I don't recall them asking me from where I got the bag.
OTOH, since it's free of charge they don't guarantee you'll get the exact tags for your bag, you don't know what you're going to get until it arrives, and you may not receive it for several weeks. That's "free of charge" for ya
The phone associate can pull up the bag style info based on the full style number along with the hangtag info for that style. Coach no longer asks customers to register their bags. TMK they haven't done so since they switched from assigning a unique serial number to each bag years ago. They can't tell who bought the bag based solely on the modern style number.
I have a khaki/gold Groovy, and the original tags are transparent purple with gold glitter and patent purple, like the ones in this auction (NMA):
http://cgi.ebay.com/NWT-COACH-POPPY...399234375?pt=US_CSA_WH_Handbags#ht_7952wt_911. Oddly enough, the bag's lining is turquoise so a turquoise tag might make more sense, LOL! If you're a stickler for this sort of thing and plan to use a different tag, look for one with gold hardware to match the bag's hardware, so that it looks like the hangtag was
supposed to go with this bag all along!