Resellers like TRR, Vestiaire and Rebag are touting their strickt authentication processes using highly trained experts and automation, machine learning and AI to stop fakes. Still they let the most horrendous fakes pass as authentic apparently selling for $13000!
Seventy years old I only this year learned about the flourishing second-hand marked for luxury handbags and started looking for a Dior Lady in crocodile or alligator. I am not an expert on this particular bag but I know crocodile from alligator. And I do spot embossed leather from a distance
I did not expect to find any fake Dior Lady exotics, but I did!
Rebag is right now selling a Dior Lady crocodile fake for $8035. It is so badly made that it is laughable and one would think it will never sell, but it probably will as several others have sold for high prices. I hate to think that exotic lovers are plain stupid, but if a badly made fake croc bag costing $200 find buyers what about the superfakes?
This bag being fake is a no brainer since Dior did not make an embossed croc version of it. The leather being embossed is a also no brainer not only because the croc pattern is wrong, but because lack of structure and details. But its construction is also wrong and should have alarmed even the most novice authenticator.
Bag sewn from the inside without visible seams where the panels meet, missing parts like strap and charm protector and fabric interior instead of nappa or suede are all tell tales. But most alarming to me is that despite reporting this bag both to Rebag and Ebay nothing happens. Ebay sent a note saying that having used «automation and AI» they determined the «listing not to be a violation». Rebag advised me to «check their other bags»!
To be continued…
Seventy years old I only this year learned about the flourishing second-hand marked for luxury handbags and started looking for a Dior Lady in crocodile or alligator. I am not an expert on this particular bag but I know crocodile from alligator. And I do spot embossed leather from a distance
I did not expect to find any fake Dior Lady exotics, but I did!Rebag is right now selling a Dior Lady crocodile fake for $8035. It is so badly made that it is laughable and one would think it will never sell, but it probably will as several others have sold for high prices. I hate to think that exotic lovers are plain stupid, but if a badly made fake croc bag costing $200 find buyers what about the superfakes?
This bag being fake is a no brainer since Dior did not make an embossed croc version of it. The leather being embossed is a also no brainer not only because the croc pattern is wrong, but because lack of structure and details. But its construction is also wrong and should have alarmed even the most novice authenticator.
Bag sewn from the inside without visible seams where the panels meet, missing parts like strap and charm protector and fabric interior instead of nappa or suede are all tell tales. But most alarming to me is that despite reporting this bag both to Rebag and Ebay nothing happens. Ebay sent a note saying that having used «automation and AI» they determined the «listing not to be a violation». Rebag advised me to «check their other bags»!
To be continued…
She told me they (the people that did this, not her as she was in management/leadership) would get in trouble up to being terminated if they didn't get their quota for the day, so that's why sometimes they rush through.
