Seller: Linda's Stuff discussion..

[vikianderson]

You'd be much safer getting your own confirmation from a reputable authenticator for that brand who's been recommended by the members here at tPF. Technically ALL name-brand items listed on Ebay are required to be confirmed by the sellers as genuine, but obviously that doesn't always happen. AN AUTHENTICATION IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE AUTHENTICATOR. And judging from her FB and many of the comments posted here that particular seller has made some poor choices and her choices have made mistakes, not to mention the other problems like poor packing and shipping and items that get "lost" in the mail already mentioned here by numerous posters.

Granted, if you can prove you received a counterfeit you'll usually get your money back, but with the kind of volume she does there are probably a good number of fakes that slip by, as well as a lot of fakes that those of us who try to find counterfeits before they get into buyers' hands just don't have the time to look for. There's no way I'd ever trust the claimed authentication of such a high-volume seller when it's MY money on the line.

In the last few days I found a fake Coach she sold back in December with a fake font used in the serial number.
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/authenticate-this-coach.889527/page-1373#post-31108706
With the possible exception of Authenticate4U, I doubt if any of the advertised Coach authenticators out there, much less her paid Coach "authenticators", even have a bleedin' clue about what font that particular style made in that plant, month and year is supposed to have. So if that's an indication of the way her Coaches are supposedly authenticated, thanks but No, Thanks.

Thanks so much for your kind reply [emoji253]
Personally, if a seller can't confirm they are selling an authentic item, my interest stops there. I wouldn't get as far as third party authentication. I must admit, (& I know I shouldn't be) but I am always even more shocked when the "big hitters" in the reselling market choose not to make absolute certain they are listing authenticate items. What is the point of being a seller if you don't care about your seller's reputation ??
In recent years I have wanted to embrace the pre-owned & vintage market but attitudes like their's - coupled with crazy prices for "used" items makes it very difficult [emoji15]

 

[Hyacinth]

To add to what @Hyacinth posted less than 2 weeks, ago, I just made another post today on Coach's Hall of Shame.

Note that with 150,376 listings, 277 of which are Coach, 22 of which are Dooney and 63 of which are Uggs, the brands in which I have expertise, it would take way more time than I'm willing to devote to finding all the fakes but a quick search of the newest listings pulled up two very obvious fakes, one of which was authenticated by My Poupette! I can't even imagine how many other fakes she has listed and has sold that were "professionally" authenticated if these items slipped by.

While I don't believe Linda purposely lists and sells fakes, I don't think she's careful enough in vetting the expertise of whatever services she uses. (And often, I don't even bother reporting the listings for fakes because doing so is a total waste of time. Linda brings so much money in to ebay that they turn a blind eye to reports against her.)

https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...oach-fakes-here.824098/page-271#post-31136719

What's REALLY mind-blowing about this new fake is that it has one of the biggest and OLDEST red flags when authenticating Coaches - a standard Signature C pattern WHERE THE Cs AREN'T CENTERED CORRECTLY. It's the most obvious and easy to spot problem possible for someone who's just glancing through a page of listings, and the fact that the "experts" at MP didn't catch it is just totally unacceptable! It's been widely known as an indication of a possible fake for more than 10 years and was even mentioned in the Coach Guide on Authenticity Guides that I researched and wrote over 5 years ago for Salearea:
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Coach-Authenticity-Guides-Facts-and-Myths-/10000000062607882/g.html

AND that D6K-4153 serial number is also in Part 2 of the Daria48 Fake Coach Serial Numbers List posted at Ebay:
"D6K-4153 - always fake, no exceptions. In fact, ALL serial numbers with "K" in the third position meaning the plant code and a creed stamp saying it was Made In The United States are probably fake, that K code seems to have only been used by a Chinese plant. All "Coach" bags with K plant codes should be authenticated at Ebay's Fashion Discussion forum, see the URL posted up-thread."
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Fake-Coach-Serial-Numbers-Part-2-/10000000179041909/g.html

While there are some exceptions to the "centered Cs Rule" this isn't one of them. And to make it even WORSE, the bleedin' creed says the bag is made of COWHIDE. I've seen some interesting patterns on cows, but C patterned fabric isn't one of them. There are at least 3 other problems with that creed that Linda's "experts" didn't catch either including an invalid serial prefix and a style number that belongs to an all-leather Soho Bleeker Bag, and that Signature C pattern Coaches were NEVER made in the US.

There's NO excuse for this kind of unprofessionalism, by either " linda*s***stuff " OR MyPoupette (who in my Humble Opinion is completely unqualified to be authenticating Coach products)!

 

[jcrewaddict883]

That only works when buyers know they received a fake.

Pretend you're a non-expert buyer, see a listing for an item, read the description where it states that "this item was professionally authenticated by (whatever company)," would you question that item upon receipt? Most buyers don't.

I think she just doesn't care if fake items get listed. It happens with her time and time again. At a certain point you have to take responsibility and make changes if you are having authenticating issues. What she does is immoral and unethical. I would never ever ever buy a luxury item from Linda's Stuff.

 

[jcrewaddict883]

What's REALLY mind-blowing about this new fake is that it has one of the biggest and OLDEST red flags when authenticating Coaches - a standard Signature C pattern WHERE THE Cs AREN'T CENTERED CORRECTLY. It's the most obvious and easy to spot problem possible for someone who's just glancing through a page of listings, and the fact that the "experts" at MP didn't catch it is just totally unacceptable! It's been widely known as an indication of a possible fake for more than 10 years and was even mentioned in the Coach Guide on Authenticity Guides that I researched and wrote over 5 years ago for Salearea:
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Coach-Authenticity-Guides-Facts-and-Myths-/10000000062607882/g.html

AND that D6K-4153 serial number is also in Part 2 of the Daria48 Fake Coach Serial Numbers List posted at Ebay:
"D6K-4153 - always fake, no exceptions. In fact, ALL serial numbers with "K" in the third position meaning the plant code and a creed stamp saying it was Made In The United States are probably fake, that K code seems to have only been used by a Chinese plant. All "Coach" bags with K plant codes should be authenticated at Ebay's Fashion Discussion forum, see the URL posted up-thread."
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Fake-Coach-Serial-Numbers-Part-2-/10000000179041909/g.html

While there are some exceptions to the "centered Cs Rule" this isn't one of them. And to make it even WORSE, the bleedin' creed says the bag is made of COWHIDE. I've seen some interesting patterns on cows, but C patterned fabric isn't one of them. There are at least 3 other problems with that creed that Linda's "experts" didn't catch either including an invalid serial prefix and a style number that belongs to an all-leather Soho Bleeker Bag, and that Signature C pattern Coaches were NEVER made in the US.

There's NO excuse for this kind of unprofessionalism, by either " linda*s***stuff " OR MyPoupette (who in my Humble Opinion is completely unqualified to be authenticating Coach products)!

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This is unbelievably bad looking.

 

[jcrewaddict883]

Thanks so much for your kind reply [emoji253]
Personally, if a seller can't confirm they are selling an authentic item, my interest stops there. I wouldn't get as far as third party authentication. I must admit, (& I know I shouldn't be) but I am always even more shocked when the "big hitters" in the reselling market choose not to make absolute certain they are listing authenticate items. What is the point of being a seller if you don't care about your seller's reputation ??
In recent years I have wanted to embrace the pre-owned & vintage market but attitudes like their's - coupled with crazy prices for "used" items makes it very difficult [emoji15]

Totally agree! I also lose interest if a seller is using authentication services I deem inferior as Linda's does.

 

[BeenBurned]

We can agree to disagree here, but the feedback speaks for itself !!

I agree that the "feedback speaks for itself" and NOT in a good way!!

Less than 1% for neutral/negative for total amount of transactions in the last 12 months.... that's not so bad !!
Consigning & buying from Linda's Stuff works for me & 98045 others who have had positive transactions
& left feedback reflecting that!!!

910 revised feedback, tons of negs and neutrals (including nearly 1000 just in the last 12 months), many fakes, many SNADs ---- maybe those who are so vociferous in defending Linda*s***stuff should contact her and advise her of the fakes she currently has listed!

 

[Hyacinth]

Less than 1% for neutral/negative for total amount of transactions in the last 12 months.... that's not so bad !!
Consigning & buying from Linda's Stuff works for me & 98045 others who have had positive transactions
& left feedback reflecting that!!!

And I wonder HOW MANY OF THOSE 98045 SO-CALLED POSITIVE FBs WERE LEFT BY CUSTOMERS WHO RECEIVED A COUNTERFEIT ITEM AND NEVER REALIZED IT, OR WHO FELT PRESSURED BY PREVIOUS EBAY EXPERIENCES TO LEAVE A POSITIVE IF THEY EVER WANTED TO GET THEIR MONEY BACK

One thing we always learned in Sales, both from our own managers and from paid courses and seminars, is that only ONE OUT OF TEN unhappy buyers will ever complain either publicly or privately (but keep in mind, that was back in the '70s, '80s and early '90s, long before the days of the omnipresent Internet and especially before Social Media). The rest just chalk it up to experience and try to avoid that seller in the future. So that "one percent" Neutral or Negative looks a little shaky when compared with recent customer service statistics.

And 10 percent is at the low end. Googling "percentage of unhappy buyers who actually complain" from a variety of sources brings up a more up-to-date statistic -
For every customer who bothers to complain, 26 other customers remain silent. Other sites have similarly high figures.

From a HuffPost article:

• Only 1 out of 26 unhappy customers complain. The rest churn. A lesson here is that companies should not view absence of feedback as a sign of satisfaction. The true enemy is indifference.
• 91% of unhappy customers who are non-complainers simply leave.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vala-afshar/50-important-customer-exp_b_8295772.html

And that's just ONE article. There are a lot more that have come up with similar numbers. The Customer Service industry lives and thrives on statistics and can supply numbers and percentages.

 

[jcrewaddict883]

I agree that the "feedback speaks for itself" and NOT in a good way!!

910 revised feedback, tons of negs and neutrals (including nearly 1000 just in the last 12 months), many fakes, many SNADs ---- maybe those who are so vociferous in defending Linda*s***stuff should contact her and advise her of the fakes she currently has listed!

It honestly shocks me that she has any defenders. Yesterday I was reading more about her operation and it seems the working conditions are awful there. This is just another reason that solidifies my decision to never purchase from her.

 

[BeenBurned]

It honestly shocks me that she has any defenders. Yesterday I was reading more about her operation and it seems the working conditions are awful there. This is just another reason that solidifies my decision to never purchase from her.

I have to agree. Whether it's intentional or not, whether she's agreeable to refunds or not, whether buyers get (relatively) good deals or not, it's pretty obvious that Linda of linda*s***stuff has gotten too big to care about her appearance as an honest and transparent seller.

1. Whether or not she realizes it, she lists fakes
2. Whether or not it's intentional, she undescribes items, omits "condition" issues
3. Whether or not she's aware, she uses authentication services that don't know the brands they're authenticating and her items have been misauthenticated as authentic when they're fake. It's also possible that these companies have deemed authentic items as fake but we don't know that.
4. Based on the volume of her ebay store, buyers trust her and in many cases, that trust is misplaced.

 

[jcrewaddict883]

I have to agree. Whether it's intentional or not, whether she's agreeable to refunds or not, whether buyers get (relatively) good deals or not, it's pretty obvious that Linda of linda*s***stuff has gotten too big to care about her appearance as an honest and transparent seller.

1. Whether or not she realizes it, she lists fakes
2. Whether or not it's intentional, she undescribes items, omits "condition" issues
3. Whether or not she's aware, she uses authentication services that don't know the brands they're authenticating and her items have been misauthenticated as authentic when they're fake. It's also possible that these companies have deemed authentic items as fake but we don't know that.
4. Based on the volume of her ebay store, buyers trust her and in many cases, that trust is misplaced.

I think she has to know she is listing fakes! She simply just does not care. Linda's Stuff is a joke.

 

[poopsie]

I ended up returning everything I ever bought from her.
This was a few years back, and I have noticed that her descriptions are a bit better when it comes to mentioning condition.
The thing that irritates me is that her pictures don't enlarge when you hover on them. All mine do...............and so do those of other sellers. I suppose I could use a phone or tablet to try and enlarge them so I can see details, but I hate shopping on those devices. And, really, why should I have to.
I bought three or four pairs of Prada shoes...............none of them fit. And Prada has always been the one brand that I could always rely on to run TTS. IDK if the shoes were fake or not, but of all the places I have bought Prada shoes hers were the only ones I ever had problems with

 

[Luvbolide]

That only works when buyers know they received a fake.

Pretend you're a non-expert buyer, see a listing for an item, read the description where it states that "this item was professionally authenticated by (whatever company)," would you question that item upon receipt? Most buyers don't.

True - I was thinking about returns I made - not fakes, but other SNAD. I no longer buy from Linda's, the items are often not as nice as described and I would never buy from someone who claims authenticate through MP.

I know she sells huge numbers of things, so maybe the percent of her negs is not high, but I find the number of issues to be scary high. I also think many who get a refund decide not to leave feedback - or maybe even leave positive - because they got their $ back in the end.

 

[jcrewaddict883]

I've had good experiences buying & selling with Linda. There is a client code so I can keep track of what has been sold
& any issues Linda has been very happy to resolve to my satisfaction.
I've never had a problem with calling either..
I would say to anyone who has purchased from her in the past, if you don't let her know what might be wrong,
how can she correct it & make it better.

I think you are Linda.

 

[BeenBurned]

I've had good experiences buying & selling with Linda. There is a client code so I can keep track of what has been sold
& any issues Linda has been very happy to resolve to my satisfaction.
I've never had a problem with calling either..
I would say to anyone who has purchased from her in the past, if you don't let her know what might be wrong,
how can she correct it & make it better.

Are you affiliated with Linda's Stuff?

No I am not... I have had many successful buying & consigning experiences with Linda's Stuff for many years now
& would not hesitate to make a purchase from her or to consign to her.
There are very few sellers in the marketplace that have a perfect selling history or record of not making mistakes.
We all have various experiences with dealing with sellers as has been pointed out on this forum..

I think you are Linda.

^^^^ LOL!

 

[V0N1B2]

I think you are Linda.

I can't speak for @hotshot, but I assumed you were Linda's competitor since 21 out of your last 28 posts in the last two years have been about one particular seller. Either that, or you had a bad transaction, things didn't go in your favour and you're determined to ruin her. It seems like a lot of time devoted to slamming one seller on eBay.

I don't know what to say, I've bought maybe five things (all under $100) from Linda in the 13 years I've been an eBay member, and all of my experiences were good. She ships in a timely manner, the items arrived as described, and she answered promptly when I had additional questions. I'm not sure what else I can expect from a high volume eBay seller.

Has she sold fakes? Apparently, according to some here. Let's be honest, you're buying something basically sight unseen from some person selling their used goods on the Internet. It's up to every buyer to do their due diligence, regardless of platform/venue. The thing is, it's not my job to police eBay or troll the Internet looking for fake purses. I have a real job that I get paid for, and if y'all excuse me, I need to get back to that