Brighton Handbag Serial Number Lookup
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If you're still having trouble, check out. You can also search near a city, place, or address instead. I recently bought a patchwork Coach side bag at a Coach outlet store. I bought it on vacation and it was a good deal. When I got home my aunt was looking at it and looked to see if there was a serial number and there was nothing inside- no serial #, no Coach tag, nothing.
I should have looked and checked the inside when buying it but it looked great to me and I had no reason at the time to doubt the store. I do have another Coach bag that is authentic and has the serial # and interior tag so I know this is the standard. What are your experiences? Have you heard of fakes being sold at designer outlets? This would seem very strange to me but not impossible I guess. I am thinking of going to the Coach store here with my bag and receipt and asking them about it.
I love the bag so it doesn't matter too much to me either way but it would be nice to know! (I did a Google search and not many helpful results.).
I've never had that issue, but I know a lot of outlet store Coach items are made specifically for the outlet stores that aren't sold in Coach stores or department stores. Not necessarily badly made, but the construction just isn't quite all there- the C's on the cloth bags doesn't always match up, there isn't always the C cloth lining on the inside of the bag. The bags I got @ the Tulalip outlet store did come from Coach retails stores (I had seen the same design in the U Village store before it closed), but I'm not sure what the ratio is of bags from Coach stores versus directly made for the outlet. Both mine have serial numbers, though, and I had staff @ the Pacific Place store recognize them as legit. I don't think going to a store would hurt, but I don't know if they could necessarily do anything to replace it for you. My husband got me an amazing Chloe bag- real leather, amazingly stitched- from China for about 1/20th the price for a real one, apparently, the factories that make them also make the 'good fakes' which are really seconds that have a minor flaw so they don't get the serial number and the rest of the 'authentic' stuff.
I don't mind, I'd rather carry $1K+ in my purse than in the value of my purse, but it'd be good to know if this is a no-no for the stores to carry them or if they are just as mine was (although mine did not likely legally leave the factory) - a really good but not perfect authentic bag. I've bought most of my coach purse collection from the outlet. Purse come directly coach stores or coach factories.basically overstock or last season. If you have questions about your coach bag being authentic suggestion bring it back to outlet.
The items sold in Coach outlets are not usually of the same caliber as those provided in the upscale retail stores. Coach intentionally manufactures products specifically for its outlets, leaving the latest trends and shiny styles for the retail locations.
This clever marketing ploy allows trend-conscious Coach fans to maintain their elitism, whereas bargain shoppers seeking quality goods can purchase the name without acquiring the hippest fashions. It may seem prejudiced, but this sales scheme is what maintains the exclusivity of retail Coach, keeping the company from falling to the common status of a household brand. My first Coach bag was given to me by my dads ex gf- she paid full retail for it (I looked it up, it was something like $450) and gave it to me when she decided she didn't want it anymore. I actually really kind of resented it at the time, she thought I wasn't girly enough because I liked heavy metal, but I said thank you and hung onto it. I got it maybe 6 years ago and now use it as my primary purse, and now I wouldn't give it up for the world. But I agree, I have a hard time justifying spending $$$$$$$$$$$$$ on a purse. My other Coach bag was $475 originally, was marked down to $300 for the outlet, and when i saw it was on the 'Take an Additional 50% Off' rack, so I snagged it for $150.
Still pricey, but considering the price difference, much easier for me to justify. Wow, I've never heard of a fake being sold in an outlet store! I suppose its possible, but probably unlikely. Depending on the quality of the counterfeit, you can usually tell. I guess there isn't really anything more that I can add besides going to a Coach store and checking with an employee. They are taught to pay attention to stuff like that, in case of returns. Plus, Designers are really trying to crack down on counterfeit goods, so they want every instance to be reported.
More than likely it's just that some of the outlet stores have 'defective' purses that they are selling at discounted prices. I've bought a number of purses at Coach outlets, and the quality is good, so I think that's all that really matters. I've bought fake designer purses, and usually they break within a few months, or sometimes weeks. There are some really good fakes out there though.
Yea, what Becca said. They have a lifetime guarantee, but I'd think that if one was returned that the employees should know how to check for authenticity before accepting the bag as a return. However, that would be my best guess as to what happened. One thing I've noticed, actually, is that their outlet stores used to carry better quality products. The bags now at the outlet stores seem cheap and flimsy. I pretty much only carry Coach bags, usually buy them at the Outlet store because I like a good deal, and the ones I purchased several years ago seem thicker fabric and stronger zips, pulls, etc. Even the magnetic closure on the newest one I just got seems weaker.
But for the slamming deal I got on it, I'll live;).
Cris Zander, owner of a San Francisco consignment shop, holds what looks like a gently used Louis Vuitton handbag. But is it real? The answer is at the end of this story. Photo: Wendy S. Goffe
Updated Jan. 4, 2013 with an addendum at the end of this post.
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For example, in the course of reporting the story, Luxury For Less: New Web Sites And Shops Offer Gently Used Designer Goods, Forbes contributor Wendy Goffe bought the handbag pictured above at the San Francisco consignment shop, Cris. The bag says Louis Vuitton on the hardware, and in various spots on the checked pattern. But is it for real?
Cris Zander, owner of the store that bears her name, wouldn't vouch for the bag, but offered Goffe a full refund of the $500 she spent if it turned out to be a counterfeit. (A comparable Louis Vuitton bag, bought new, would have cost several times that amount.)
We went right to the source, inviting Louis Vuitton to participate in a video at their Fifth Avenue store. Our proposal: have a representative of Louis Vuitton put the bag side by side with the ones in the store, and show us, feature for feature, why it is or is not the real thing.
Our requests to four different Louis Vuitton representatives, over the course of more than a month, went into a black hole. (We did the video anyway, as you can see below.)
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Attempts to interview other luxury manufacturers about how to spot a fake of their brand were similarly unsuccessful. Coach did not reply. A representative from Kate Spade said no one was available. Goyard passed. And Chanel sent this statement through a spokesperson: "Authentic Chanel products are only available at Chanel boutiques and authorized dealers." When we objected that it obviously wasn't true, the same spokesperson replied by email: "Unfortunately, Chanel has no further comment. Thank you for your understanding."
Sure, counterfeiting is rampant, but a strong resale market is one sign of a brand's strength. So it's too bad companies refuse to help consumers — or talk to the press.
Yes, there's a small handful of third-party companies that provide authentication services, but proceed with caution. A call to one of them indicated that the phone had been disconnected. The company's website required an upfront payment before we could get any information. And there was no indication who was running it, who would be doing the work, and what made that person qualified to offer an opinion.
From the consumer's perspective, there's surely a need for these services, yet very few businesses have seized the opportunity. The reason, says Susan Scafidi, who heads the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School and writes the Counterfeit Chic blog, Is that "there's a huge liability if you get it wrong either way." Designers actively enforce their trademarks, and don't want a fake identified as the real thing. Likewise, if someone is trying to sell the real thing and it's wrongly identified as a fake, they too, could sue. All such lawsuits can be costly to defend.
What's more, if a fake is good, it can be hard for even the company to distinguish it from the real thing, though they have covert, as well as overt, ways of doing that, Scafidi says. For example, the number of stitches per inch in a seam may be a trade secret, and with items like Coach bags that have serial numbers, they can easily tell if it's for real.
Meanwhile, the proliferation of online sites makes it easier than ever to get snookered. They have professional sounding names; include pictures that look like the real thing (those photos may even violate copyright rules); and price merchandise so it looks like they're discounting the real thing, rather than overcharging for a knockoff. As with any online vendor you'll want to consider how long they've been in business; how many previous customers there are; and be suspicious if the seller has plenty of stock in an item that's sold out everywhere else. Good luck getting them to take things back, or expect them to charge a huge restocking fee for the privilege.
You can't necessarily believe what they say about where something came from either. "It was a gift," is all too common an explanation. And though you might want to believe that something fell off a truck or went out the back door of the factory at night, these instances are rare, Scafidi says. Don't be fooled by the presence of a hang tag, either; anyone who can counterfeit a handbag can fake that, too.
What's a fashionista to do? Train your eye to spot a counterfeit by looking at the real thing in person – at a boutique or an authorized dealer, Scafidi advises. Then, before you buy a bag from another source, give it the once over. Here are the features she recommends you consider.
For "How To Spot A Fake Louis Vuitton," click here.
Materials. Not all designer bags are made of leather. For example, Louis Vuitton is coated canvas with leather trim. If the trim is supposed to be leather, it should feel dry — not oily, slippery or sticky. The hardware should be heavy — not hollow. If it's imprinted with the designer's name, make sure it's supposed to be.
Workmanship. The stitching should be perfectly even, with no loose threads or back-and-forth stitching at the end of a seam – that's a sign of sloppy construction. Check the seams for matching--whether of the quilting on a Chanel bag, or the pattern on a Louis Vuitton. A company like Louis Vuitton, which values its logo, wouldn't divide the letters in a seam. And where the pattern appears on either side of the seam, it should match precisely.
Lining.Counterfeiters rarely have a good view of the inside of a bag. Typically they are working from photographs, which tend to distort color. So if you have gone to a boutique and seen the color in person, you immediately have an advantage. It should be precisely the same shade as the real thing--not a close approximation.
Pockets. Here too, it's easy for counterfeiters who are working off photographs, rather than copying the real thing, to get it wrong. Scafidi has a fake Chanel tote on which copyists omitted the pocket on the back, and a Coach on which they included the the back pocket but added a zipper.
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Place of manufacture. Some counterfeiters routinely mark Louis Vuitton knockoffs "Made in France." But as it happens, at least one line was made in Spain. An example: a collaboration between Louis Vuitton's creative director Marc Jacobs, and the artist Takashi Murakami featuring cherry blossoms with whimsical smiley-face centers against the company's classic brown toile background.
Misspellings. In her collection of counterfeit bags Scafidi has a Coach labeled "eatherware" (the "L" in the word is omitted). Goyard counterfeiters made an even more egregious error, spelling the company's name "Gooyar" on both the printed canvas of the bag and its dust cover. That's a dead giveaway.
Based on four of these criteria, Scafadi questioned the authenticity of Goffe's Louis Vuitton bag, though she couldn't say for sure whether it was real or fake. The color of the lining isn't true to the original, she noted; the handles don't feel like leather; the pattern matching on the seams isn't perfect; and there is back-and-forth stitching where the seam ends under the tab.
We sent the bag back to Goffe, who made a separate attempt to authenticate it. Without disclosing that she writes for Forbes, she took the bag to the Louis Vuitton store in Seattle and asked if they could repair a scuff on the binding, figuring that they wouldn't touch a knockoff. The saleswoman looked at it closely and said it was the real deal--an older style that is no longer made.
"She inspected it closely (inside, outside, the lining and in the pockets)," Goffe reported, including the serial number pressed into the felt just above the pocket which would indicate where and when the bag was made. "It was worn off so she couldn't read it clearly, but based on the overall wear on the bag, the wear on the serial number was normal." Ordinarily, Louis Vuitton could have redone the piping for $175 but not in this case because the vinyl was cracked, creating the risk of further cracking when they re-piped the seams.
The plot thickened. Could it be that the previous owner had the bag repaired, but not by Louis Vuitton (given how much they charge for those services)? That would explain why the handles weren't made of the same material as the leather tab at the end of the zipper. In an older bag, with leather handles, they would have shown wear. So maybe the owner had the handles replaced with synthetic ones, which are more durable.
All this suggested that the bag was not a counterfeit--instead call it "custom modified." Oh the places it might have been before landing in the San Francisco consignment shop. And if only it could talk!
Addendum: Although the bag can’t speak for itself, three days after this article was published Sally A. Carlson, an executive recruiter with Equinox Search in San Francisco, contacted us to speak for it. Carlson, who says she consigned the bag to Zander late last year, wrote in an e-mail that she bought the bag atthe Louis Vuitton boutique on Union Square in San Francisco in 2007 and that it has never been altered. She also sent us a receipt showing that she paid $1,120 for it.
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For example, in the course of reporting the story, Luxury For Less: New Web Sites And Shops Offer Gently Used Designer Goods, Forbes contributor Wendy Goffe bought the handbag pictured above at the San Francisco consignment shop, Cris. The bag says Louis Vuitton on the hardware, and in various spots on the checked pattern. But is it for real?
Cris Zander, owner of the store that bears her name, wouldn't vouch for the bag, but offered Goffe a full refund of the $500 she spent if it turned out to be a counterfeit. (A comparable Louis Vuitton bag, bought new, would have cost several times that amount.)
We went right to the source, inviting Louis Vuitton to participate in a video at their Fifth Avenue store. Our proposal: have a representative of Louis Vuitton put the bag side by side with the ones in the store, and show us, feature for feature, why it is or is not the real thing.
Our requests to four different Louis Vuitton representatives, over the course of more than a month, went into a black hole. (We did the video anyway, as you can see below.)
[newsincvid]
Attempts to interview other luxury manufacturers about how to spot a fake of their brand were similarly unsuccessful. Coach did not reply. A representative from Kate Spade said no one was available. Goyard passed. And Chanel sent this statement through a spokesperson: 'Authentic Chanel products are only available at Chanel boutiques and authorized dealers.' When we objected that it obviously wasn't true, the same spokesperson replied by email: 'Unfortunately, Chanel has no further comment. Thank you for your understanding.'
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Sure, counterfeiting is rampant, but a strong resale market is one sign of a brand's strength. So it's too bad companies refuse to help consumers — or talk to the press.
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Yes, there's a small handful of third-party companies that provide authentication services, but proceed with caution. A call to one of them indicated that the phone had been disconnected. The company's website required an upfront payment before we could get any information. And there was no indication who was running it, who would be doing the work, and what made that person qualified to offer an opinion.
From the consumer's perspective, there's surely a need for these services, yet very few businesses have seized the opportunity. The reason, says Susan Scafidi, who heads the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School and writes the Counterfeit Chic blog, Is that 'there's a huge liability if you get it wrong either way.' Designers actively enforce their trademarks, and don't want a fake identified as the real thing. Likewise, if someone is trying to sell the real thing and it's wrongly identified as a fake, they too, could sue. All such lawsuits can be costly to defend.
What's more, if a fake is good, it can be hard for even the company to distinguish it from the real thing, though they have covert, as well as overt, ways of doing that, Scafidi says. For example, the number of stitches per inch in a seam may be a trade secret, and with items like Coach bags that have serial numbers, they can easily tell if it's for real.
Meanwhile, the proliferation of online sites makes it easier than ever to get snookered. They have professional sounding names; include pictures that look like the real thing (those photos may even violate copyright rules); and price merchandise so it looks like they're discounting the real thing, rather than overcharging for a knockoff. As with any online vendor you'll want to consider how long they've been in business; how many previous customers there are; and be suspicious if the seller has plenty of stock in an item that's sold out everywhere else. Good luck getting them to take things back, or expect them to charge a huge restocking fee for the privilege.
You can't necessarily believe what they say about where something came from either. 'It was a gift,' is all too common an explanation. And though you might want to believe that something fell off a truck or went out the back door of the factory at night, these instances are rare, Scafidi says. Don't be fooled by the presence of a hang tag, either; anyone who can counterfeit a handbag can fake that, too.
What's a fashionista to do? Train your eye to spot a counterfeit by looking at the real thing in person – at a boutique or an authorized dealer, Scafidi advises. Then, before you buy a bag from another source, give it the once over. Here are the features she recommends you consider.
For 'How To Spot A Fake Louis Vuitton,' click here.
Materials. Not all designer bags are made of leather. For example, Louis Vuitton is coated canvas with leather trim. If the trim is supposed to be leather, it should feel dry — not oily, slippery or sticky. The hardware should be heavy — not hollow. If it's imprinted with the designer's name, make sure it's supposed to be.
Workmanship. The stitching should be perfectly even, with no loose threads or back-and-forth stitching at the end of a seam – that's a sign of sloppy construction. Check the seams for matching--whether of the quilting on a Chanel bag, or the pattern on a Louis Vuitton. A company like Louis Vuitton, which values its logo, wouldn't divide the letters in a seam. And where the pattern appears on either side of the seam, it should match precisely.
Lining.Counterfeiters rarely have a good view of the inside of a bag. Typically they are working from photographs, which tend to distort color. So if you have gone to a boutique and seen the color in person, you immediately have an advantage. It should be precisely the same shade as the real thing--not a close approximation.
Pockets. Here too, it's easy for counterfeiters who are working off photographs, rather than copying the real thing, to get it wrong. Scafidi has a fake Chanel tote on which copyists omitted the pocket on the back, and a Coach on which they included the the back pocket but added a zipper.
Place of manufacture. Some counterfeiters routinely mark Louis Vuitton knockoffs 'Made in France.' But as it happens, at least one line was made in Spain. An example: a collaboration between Louis Vuitton's creative director Marc Jacobs, and the artist Takashi Murakami featuring cherry blossoms with whimsical smiley-face centers against the company's classic brown toile background.
Misspellings. In her collection of counterfeit bags Scafidi has a Coach labeled 'eatherware' (the 'L' in the word is omitted). Goyard counterfeiters made an even more egregious error, spelling the company's name 'Gooyar' on both the printed canvas of the bag and its dust cover. That's a dead giveaway.
Based on four of these criteria, Scafadi questioned the authenticity of Goffe's Louis Vuitton bag, though she couldn't say for sure whether it was real or fake. The color of the lining isn't true to the original, she noted; the handles don't feel like leather; the pattern matching on the seams isn't perfect; and there is back-and-forth stitching where the seam ends under the tab.
We sent the bag back to Goffe, who made a separate attempt to authenticate it. Without disclosing that she writes for Forbes, she took the bag to the Louis Vuitton store in Seattle and asked if they could repair a scuff on the binding, figuring that they wouldn't touch a knockoff. The saleswoman looked at it closely and said it was the real deal--an older style that is no longer made.
'She inspected it closely (inside, outside, the lining and in the pockets),' Goffe reported, including the serial number pressed into the felt just above the pocket which would indicate where and when the bag was made. 'It was worn off so she couldn't read it clearly, but based on the overall wear on the bag, the wear on the serial number was normal.' Ordinarily, Louis Vuitton could have redone the piping for $175 but not in this case because the vinyl was cracked, creating the risk of further cracking when they re-piped the seams.
The plot thickened. Could it be that the previous owner had the bag repaired, but not by Louis Vuitton (given how much they charge for those services)? That would explain why the handles weren't made of the same material as the leather tab at the end of the zipper. In an older bag, with leather handles, they would have shown wear. So maybe the owner had the handles replaced with synthetic ones, which are more durable.
All this suggested that the bag was not a counterfeit--instead call it 'custom modified.' Oh the places it might have been before landing in the San Francisco consignment shop. And if only it could talk!
Addendum: Although the bag can’t speak for itself, three days after this article was published Sally A. Carlson, an executive recruiter with Equinox Search in San Francisco, contacted us to speak for it. Carlson, who says she consigned the bag to Zander late last year, wrote in an e-mail that she bought the bag atthe Louis Vuitton boutique on Union Square in San Francisco in 2007 and that it has never been altered. She also sent us a receipt showing that she paid $1,120 for it.
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