Fake Tiffany VENT

[allison443]

On a different thread (specifically about Coach bags) someone who works with women on public assistance said they all carry Coach.

Don't you know that poor women carry Coach bags, which contain their food stamp card that they use to pay for steak and lobster?

 

[hambirg]

Everybody jumps to conclusions on this board.

Some more than others.

 

[Art 1]

Coach is the designer bag for poor women. If you want to carry a status symbol, save for a Prada. Or better yet, a Chanel.

To the OP, if the store claimed the Tiffany was authentic and it turned out not to be, I'd be pissed and let them know.

Or high school girls.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

On a different thread (specifically about Coach bags) someone who works with women on public assistance said they all carry Coach.

Ermmm. . .you do realize those are ALL fake Coach, right? You can, right now, go to a flea market in the wrong part of town and buy as many Coaches as you'd like for practically nothing, especially if you pay cash. Or Vuitton. Or Chanel. Or Prada. Or Hermes.

They won't last longer than a couple of months, and they're not exact replicas, but they have all the badging.

 

[CurlyGirl]

Where I live, women on food stamps carry knock off Louis V's. Hey - if you're going to go knock-off, why bother with Coach?! Pull out the big guns!

I wouldn't carry a Louis V. (real or fake) if my life depended on it. I don't wany anyone to think I'm on welfare!

 

[luvmy3]

Ermmm. . .you do realize those are ALL fake Coach, right? You can, right now, go to a flea market in the wrong part of town and buy as many Coaches as you'd like for practically nothing, especially if you pay cash. Or Vuitton. Or Chanel. Or Prada. Or Hermes.

They won't last longer than a couple of months, and they're not exact replicas, but they have all the badging.

Or the right part of town. I went to a Flea Market in a nice town in Upstate NY a few years ago, and there were tents filled with Coach, and LV bags. Of course I couldn't help voicing my opinion about them to the guys unloading their boxes, but they assured me they were real.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Or the right part of town. I went to a Flea Market in a nice town in Upstate NY a few years ago, and there were tents filled with Coach, and LV bags. Of course I couldn't help voicing my opinion about them to the guys unloading their boxes, but they assured me they were real.

Ahh. Here, in the right part of town, they sell them out of the back of car trunks or at parties. You can tell who has money because they're pawing through boxes, looking for the ones that are harder to "tell" are fake. Some of the women only gyms actually have a scheduled day that the "purse man" comes!

 

[Art 1]

Ahh. Here, in the right part of town, they sell them out of the back of car trunks or at parties. You can tell who has money because they're pawing through boxes, looking for the ones that are harder to "tell" are fake. Some of the women only gyms actually have a scheduled day that the "purse man" comes!

Some of the fakes are not fakes. I forget what percentage of real bags coming into NYC are stolen but it's a good bit.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Some of the fakes are not fakes. I forget what percentage of real bags coming into NYC are stolen but it's a good bit.

Stolen purses are hawked on ebay or craig's list, they're not sold wrapped in plastic, smelling like PVC pipes.

 

[Tiger926]

Just noticed, like with OP's other threads, she seems to drop out of sight, once there is a lot of chatter. But I'm wondering if she was able to speak to the store owner and what happened?

Tiger

 

[Art 1]

Stolen purses are hawked on ebay or craig's list, they're not sold wrapped in plastic, smelling like PVC pipes.

Some are. They are sold many different ways.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Some are. They are sold many different ways.

Fine. Flat purses, in shipping boxes from China, with tissue paper, that smell like the plastic they are, that aren't properly put together and fall apart 2 months later are stolen handbags.

 

[Art 1]

Fine. Flat purses, in shipping boxes from China, with tissue paper, that smell like the plastic they are, that aren't properly put together and fall apart 2 months later are stolen handbags.

Those that you describe would be fakes from China. I never said other wise. My comment was that there is a significant amount of stolen bags at the receiving points in NYC. I forget what the percentage is. I would rather not comment more about this.

I'm sorry if my comment upset you. Maybe you know more about the theft and selling of what some consider high end bags than I.

 

[morethananyonex]

I LOVE Disney club level and am fortunate enough that I have a DBF that loves to take me! All my trips are listed in my signature. I refuse to stay anywhere but club level because I love it so much! My DBF can't come this trip so I am funding it myself, and I found an awesome travel agent who said she has pin codes for 40% off club level!

Well turns out, the travel agent was mistaken and now I'm booked at Pop Century . She advertised it was for club level, so now I want my money back but she won't give it to me. I don't want to pay full price for CL, I need the pin! Between myself and DBF we book tons of club level trips, so she's loosing a lot of business.

Help!

 

[CurlyGirl]

Just noticed, like with OP's other threads, she seems to drop out of sight, once there is a lot of chatter. But I'm wondering if she was able to speak to the store owner and what happened?

Here's your answer :

I am off to spend my day probably wearing something that would horrify some of you

 

[CurlyGirl]

I LOVE Disney club level and am fortunate enough that I have a DBF that loves to take me! All my trips are listed in my signature. I refuse to stay anywhere but club level because I love it so much! My DBF can't come this trip so I am funding it myself, and I found an awesome travel agent who said she has pin codes for 40% off club level!

Well turns out, the travel agent was mistaken and now I'm booked at Pop Century . She advertised it was for club level, so now I want my money back but she won't give it to me. I don't want to pay full price for CL, I need the pin! Between myself and DBF we book tons of club level trips, so she's loosing a lot of business.

Help!

LMAO!!!!

And really ... what's wrong with you!? Don't you have any Louis V's, Jimmy Choo's, Manolo's, and Cartier sitting around to unload? Or buy a bunch of fake bags and sell them as gen-you-whine to the food stamp ladies!

 

[Swan4Me]

Just noticed, like with OP's other threads, she seems to drop out of sight, once there is a lot of chatter. But I'm wondering if she was able to speak to the store owner and what happened?

Tiger

Maybe tomorrow? 'd like to know also

 

[tlbwriter]

I LOVE Disney club level and am fortunate enough that I have a DBF that loves to take me! All my trips are listed in my signature. I refuse to stay anywhere but club level because I love it so much! My DBF can't come this trip so I am funding it myself, and I found an awesome travel agent who said she has pin codes for 40% off club level!

Well turns out, the travel agent was mistaken and now I'm booked at Pop Century . She advertised it was for club level, so now I want my money back but she won't give it to me. I don't want to pay full price for CL, I need the pin! Between myself and DBF we book tons of club level trips, so she's loosing a lot of business.

Are you saying you wouldn't be mad and demand your money back if this actually happened to you?

 

[morethananyonex]

Are you saying you wouldn't be mad and demand your money back if this actually happened to you?

Not at all, I'd be extremely mad. I think all the hate the OP is getting is ridiculous considering if the post was worded in a "Disney way" like I did, no one would be getting offended at bragging.

 

[badblackpug]

Not at all, I'd be extremely mad. I think all the hate the OP is getting is ridiculous considering if the post was worded in a "Disney way" like I did, no one would be getting offended at bragging.

Actually, apples to oranges because the OP bought a "guaranteed" Tiffany bracelet from a non authorized retailer. The authenticity of Tiffany jewelry is only guaranteed if it is bought from Tiffany itself. If you had booked your package through an authorized travel agent and the above had happened, then, yes, you should be angry, and should get a refund. ...but... if you booked your trip through someone off Craig's list who is not an authorized travel agent, then buyer beware.

I don't really think that if the OP's post had been worded like yours she wouldn't have had so much criticism. I think the issue was that she included a lot of extraneous details, basically boasting her "high end" lifestyle that had little or nothing to do with the subject at hand.

If she had said (and I said this before)

"I took some clothing to a consignment shop that advertises they deal in high end designers. They advertised that their merchandise is guaranteed to be authentic. While I was there I noticed a Tiffany bracelet. I love Tiffany jewelry so I bought it. When I got home I examined it more closely and realized it wasn't real....blah, blah, blah..."

She did not need to go on about how her BF buys her expensive jewelry, about how he bought her expensive shoes and she knows they were expensive because she saw the receipt (tacky, BTW, if they were a gift) about how she could have a LV handbag if she would give up one of her many WDW trips. How people "won't get it." It was all just too much "look how fabulous I am." I think she was trying very hard to impress, and it just made her look sad instead.

I also said before I really don't give a rat's butt how she spends her (or her BF's money) but I am sure that many people were rubbed the wrong way by her "look how fabulous I am and make sure you check out my fabulous self in my pic" post.