Avoid Fakes!, how to spot them before it's too late. Options

[imperfectionistx]

HOW TO AVOID FAKE BAGS/PRODUCTS

- HOW TO AVOID FAKE TOKIDOKI BAGS
- HOW TO AVOID FAKE COACH BAGS
- HOW TO AVOID FAKE LOUIS VUITTON BAGS
- HOW TO AVOID FAKE PRADA BAGS
- HOW TO AVOID FAKE CHANEL BAGS
- HOW TO AVOID FAKE GUCCI BAGS
- HOW TO AVOID FAKE JUICY COUTURE BAGS
- HOW TO AVOID FAKE DOONEY & BOURKE BAGS
- HOW TO AVOID FAKE VERSACE BAGS
- HOW TO AVOID FAKE FENDI BAGS
- HOW TO AVOID FAKE BURBERRY BAGS

I figure this information will come in handy for people who shop on ebay and don't want to get deceived by sellers proclaiming how authentic their products are. Anyone with other tips can add to this. I've never been one to buy knock-offs, but other people might unknowingly buy some bag and think they've got designer shit when it's really fake. Horribly fake. Why can't they tell???

Example:
I was at the mall a few days ago and there was a lady (asian - not to be racist; I am asian too) and she was selling tokidoki bags. From far away, I was all "OMG!" Then I got closer and realized:

Red Flag no. 1 - They were around 20-40 dollars for even large bags. WTF.
Red Flag no. 2 - The bag styles there aren't styles made by tokidoki.
Red Flag no. 3 - A few characters on the bag don't even exist.
Red Flag no. 4 - The colors were wrong, and places like the characters eyes were colored in instead of white.
Red Flag no. 5 - The strip on the bag with the LeSportsac logo was totally WRONG. It looked nothing like what it's supposed to look like. Even the text was noticably different than the real thing.
Red Flag no. 6 - Some bags didn't even have the lesportsac logo on the strip.
Red Flag no. 7 - None of the bags had qee's, beaded chains, or colored zipper pulls.
It was so deceiving from far away.

What really pissed me off was that the lady first told us they were knock offs. Then she said that Tokidoki wasn't being manufactured anymore, so these were from the factory, which is why some bags didn't have the logo strip. By then I'm just like "Yeah okay. Let's go." Forget that. We left for about 20 minutes and when we walked back there were about 5 people enthusiastically buying a crapload of bags. I felt pretty sorry for them.

Maybe they didn't care if they were knockoffs or not, but if they thought they were getting the real deal FOR a "real deal", the seller was deceivingly telling them that the bags were actually authentic.

[misoshiru]

if they're obvious fakes, people know.

[imperfectionistx]

^Some people are really quite oblivious.

My boyfriends mom had this bag. It was half fabric half silver metal, clamshell container style bag. Idk if you could even call it a bag. It had a print on it similar to the CC Coach print, but it was G's instead of C's in this maroon/pink print. She said her friend got it for $300 and gave it to her and it was real Coach.

She was extremely disappointed when I informed her it was, infact, not Coach, but a Guess "bag."

[batman]

Idk, if someone can't tell Guess from Coach (etc), then they wouldn't appreciate a real Coach bag; they're obviously just in it so they can show off and say they bought the namebrand.

If you really did like Burberry, Prada, etc., I think you'd be able to tell straight off the bat.

[imperfectionistx]

^I suppose some people would be able to tell, but it's getting pretty scary how accurate fakes are becoming these days.

It's more like if your friend really liked Coach and you wanted to buy her a bag for their birthday. Maybe she would be able to tell the diff. between a real and a fake, but you aren't into bags, so you don't know the difference. So you end up buying her a fake bag, thinking it's real, and you end up disappointing her.

[batman]

Well, if I were to buy my friend a Coach bag and didn't know anything about Coach, I'd probably go to a Coach store. Just sayin, lol. I don't buy presents from eBay ><

[imperfectionistx]

^I would too. But some people are just ignorant and try to get a real deal, which ends up being fake I wonder how much things on ebay are fake?