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Oh wow, this is a new one for me. The "Coach Willis" fraud I posted yesterday? In the authenticate thread (Page 536, post 8037) was reviewed & refunded immediately by PP. I called because I was floored by the turnaround time.

What shocked me even more is they instructed me NOT to return it. I was told to DESTROY it!

As of now, I have bought and sold maybe two to three dozen vintage Coach bags. I have kept about a dozen for myself. Out of that number I have been burned with three fake vintage bags, including this one. This is the first time I have ever been specifically instructed to destroy a bag.

OF COURSE I would NEVER gift or sell a bag if I had any doubts whatsoever. It sits here, eyeballing me. I am hesitant to return it for fear it will be sold to an unsuspecting buyer & have been specifically instructed NOT to.

So, what do you think I should do? Destroy it immediatley as I have been told to do? Use it as a case for make up? Let my kiddo tote peanut butter sandwiches to school in it? Post it on my blogs as a detailed example of a FAKE Willis and then destroy?

Please advise.
 
Up cycle the leather... you could make cool bracelets out of it, or make tassle keyfobs. Lots of repurposing possibilities.
Oh I do like those tassel keyfobs. A part of me just thought about keeping the damned thing and carrying it when I wore my faux engagement ring. Kind of like a "safety" in case I got mugged.

I've also considered returning it with "this is a fake Coach" scrawled across but that seems--
childish.
 
Oh wow, this is a new one for me. The "Coach Willis" fraud I posted yesterday? In the authenticate thread (Page 536, post 8037) was reviewed & refunded immediately by PP. I called because I was floored by the turnaround time.

What shocked me even more is they instructed me NOT to return it. I was told to DESTROY it!

As of now, I have bought and sold maybe two to three dozen vintage Coach bags. I have kept about a dozen for myself. Out of that number I have been burned with three fake vintage bags, including this one. This is the first time I have ever been specifically instructed to destroy a bag.

OF COURSE I would NEVER gift or sell a bag if I had any doubts whatsoever. It sits here, eyeballing me. I am hesitant to return it for fear it will be sold to an unsuspecting buyer & have been specifically instructed NOT to.

So, what do you think I should do? Destroy it immediatley as I have been told to do? Use it as a case for make up? Let my kiddo tote peanut butter sandwiches to school in it? Post it on my blogs as a detailed example of a FAKE Willis and then destroy?

Please advise.
You can cut out the creed or anything that says Coach. Then you can use the rest for whatever you like. I have a fake I haven't destroyed. If I ever get rid of it, I'll remove the creed. I'm already using the strap with another bag.
 
Sorry, you guys, really wasn't thinking! Thought it was safe the next day.

Just got back to this thread - no worries here, either. It was a reflex reaction like, "hey wait a minute!" LOL.

We do tend to dvr a lot in my house and take our time to watch programs. And I usually avoid spoilers on certain shows. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. LOL.
 
Oh wow, this is a new one for me. The "Coach Willis" fraud I posted yesterday? In the authenticate thread (Page 536, post 8037) was reviewed & refunded immediately by PP. I called because I was floored by the turnaround time.

What shocked me even more is they instructed me NOT to return it. I was told to DESTROY it!

As of now, I have bought and sold maybe two to three dozen vintage Coach bags. I have kept about a dozen for myself. Out of that number I have been burned with three fake vintage bags, including this one. This is the first time I have ever been specifically instructed to destroy a bag.

OF COURSE I would NEVER gift or sell a bag if I had any doubts whatsoever. It sits here, eyeballing me. I am hesitant to return it for fear it will be sold to an unsuspecting buyer & have been specifically instructed NOT to.

So, what do you think I should do? Destroy it immediatley as I have been told to do? Use it as a case for make up? Let my kiddo tote peanut butter sandwiches to school in it? Post it on my blogs as a detailed example of a FAKE Willis and then destroy?

Please advise.
I haven't heard of this happening with Coach bags and I have mixed sentiments when ebay and/or Paypal require a buyer to destroy an item.

In your case, the bag was definitely fake and should never have been sold, but on the ebay forum, there have been instances where authentic bags have been ordered to be destroyed. In some of those cases, it's suspected that the buyers either submitted authentications from a different fake bag and received a refund and the "free" genuine item or other cases where an authenticator erred in deeming authentic bags as fake.

I wonder if there's a history of your seller getting a fake returned and relisting it. If ebay knows of a history, they might be more apt to act as they did in this case.
 
Just got back to this thread - no worries here, either. It was a reflex reaction like, "hey wait a minute!" LOL.

We do tend to dvr a lot in my house and take our time to watch programs. And I usually avoid spoilers on certain shows. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. LOL.

And I was posting from my little non-techie world; didn't realize that they were so many of you that recorded that to watch later. I had actually posted that after I saw a newscast about the cast's reaction to the episode. I was definitely in mourning, and was reaching out to fellow mourners.

Thanks for being understanding. If you watch it anytime soon, I'd be curious to know how you feel about the turn in events.
 
I'm a huge leather fiend so of course I love belts and have tons of them. I watched ebay vigilantly for the longest time for a vintage Donna Katz Leopard belt and finally found a beautiful one last January for $5.00 plus shipping!! DK made several cool belts beside the Leopard so I look for other ones also. Today I spy another Leopard belt at a very good price if anyone is interested! The leather on these belts is unbelievably thick. THey are very, very heavy belts and not vanity sized so ask for measurements from the seller if you're interested! There are a few other belts on ebay that claim to be Donna Katz Leopard belts and they are priced super duper high--they are not the real thing at all. This is the real thing and it is not my auction!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Donna-Katz-...61412?pt=US_Women_s_Belts&hash=item2a3339efe4
 
I returned two bags that i ordered from online coach factory to the store last week
And an saleswoman said that she can only refund them for store credit.but later she offer me complimentary shipping to sent the two bags back to the warehouse so that i can get the refund back to my card. And she said i can get the tracking number within 2 or 3 days. But it been a week that i havent gotten the tracking number. should i just call the store? or it doesn't matter, just wait for 2-3 weeks?
 
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