Maybe it is more an ethical problem of stealing someone else design and for maybe investment issues (many people buy luxury bags also for investments reasons)
Yes because you can either pretend to have good stuff or actually have good stuff. I personally think that owning copies of things is actually quite disrespectful towards the originals creators. I don’t care if Louis Vuitton charge whatever for their stuff, I won’t buy it. But I’m also not going to pretend like I want it by owning fake copies of their things either.
Years ago, 2009 to be exact my friend bought a vintage LV bag from Liberty in London. Only to get it valued by LV to find out it was a fake!! So her dad made a complaint and LV took Liberty of London to court over selling a fake!!! 😅 (update, for all the questions. LV took Liberty to court, the item was a vintage from the 80’s and was even on display in own glass stand. I went with her to look at it, I didn’t know she would buy it. Her father is from Taiwan and owns a golf course out there, so he has money/ connections. She obviously got her money back, I have no idea what happened with the law suit (was in London) I know that Liberty apologised to her father and blamed it on their buyer. 💁🏻♀️ so when you buy a vintage bag always get it valued.
@@caracopland710 waste for who? The dad paid for a product he received a fake of, reported it. That’s the end of the dad being involved, and then LV sued the store. Sooo no it’s not a waste..
@@kelseyyyyyyyy9852 ooo sorry it was a genuine question cuz i really don’t understand the process of authenticating designer bags… from an outside perspective it seems like double the work.
The crazy thing about "knock offs" is that they are actually real bags, just imperfect or haven't had a chance to be finished properly by said company.
But I do know someone who is from a country who makes designer bags and she has a friend who works for them. They make bags after hours out of the same products and sell them as fakes
My mum's black tourillon wallet was sent in for servicing because the gold clasp had been damaged. When it was returned to us it was given in a dust bag in that brown velvety material. Possibly sent in for a service.
@@bizzarebanana3041 figure of speech... i meant, if i can tell a microscope from a magnifying lens, how can he possibly distinguish between and original and a fake LV?
Tbh since it’s second hand the owners could’ve bought the dust bag second hand. That’s not off putting. BUT if LV gave sold it new in the brown and orange, it would be a red flag.
The reason why bags like this exist in rotation and population with a little inconsistencies, or slight errors, is because they are known for providing a certain service. Their items need to be stellar, so in the factory, if an item is inspected, and it does not fit their mark of proficiency they are discarded, but those discarded items are usually get sent to other lower chain stores or shops and people think that they’re fake like many in this comment thread but they are an actual authentic item just with minor flaws that the company deemed not to live up to their superb expectancy for client purchases
You got proof? Cause LV only sells at LV Stores and online. No other Store is allowed to. And LV has never ever granted a discount... So just because it sounds believable or other brands do it like that does not mean youre right
That very well is the fact in many cases. Unfortunately though it's not when it comes to Louis Vuitton they'll burn their items before wholesaling them.
I was selling my LV on a local sale site. A nasty hater got on there and said some things she shouldn't have. I thought I had made the mistake of throwing out the authenticity certificate, so was selling at an extremely low price. It was a gift from someone who was thanking me, who could afford the real thing. I went back and forth with her, knocking her comments down as she contradicted herself constantly. I ended up selling it to a woman who needed it for her laptop. And guess what? That certificate was in a hidden pocket I missed! Nice lady got the benefit. Hater lost out.
Moral of the story, pay $40 for a fake and nobody will ever know the difference. Pay thousands for an authentic one and you will have people thinking it’s fake anyway. If it’s a thousand or more dollar difference in price, it shouldn’t require a microscope to tell them apart.
I used to fix chromebooks for the school district and I had to call someone who knows more than I did a few times. My buddy is a mechanic and he does the same thing. It’s almost like if you don’t know something it’s better to ask a veteran on the subject rather than just not doing the job. Hope you can do better man, good luck
Yeah, it's totally your right to pay towards organised crime, money laundering, drugs, prostitution, ppl smuggling and whatever else these criminals are into. 👍
First off, absolutely you may spend your money how you choose. However, it’s important that you know that counterfeit bags are used to fund human trafficking as well as drug and arms trafficking, terrorism and other illicit crimes. Legitimate companies may not be a shining example of morality, but they’re nothing like organized crime. Beyond the huge issues of trafficking in illicit goods, the items are ALL made in child labour or woman labour facilities. Children are stolen from their homes and forced to work until they die… they’re raped and often lose limbs from factory injury as they’ve had no training and are using machinery that requires it. The women are raped and impregnated to ensure a perpetual loop of undocumented work force… the facilities are rat-infested and smell of death. At the end? These women and children are thrown in group graves… Finally, the items themselves are made of materials that do not follow any codes, so lead seeping into your blood stream from the handle of a bag? You got it… much of the fancy leather treatment is done with mercury bc it’s cheap…. Another fun cancer-causing metal entering your blood stream…. So please remember, when you’re carrying one of those knock offs, you are responsible for the rape and pillage of children and women in 3rd world countries, so you can look “cool” or “rich” or whatever your reasons are. Maybe you simply Like the bag? Buy an inspired one. There are ethical dupes of so many bags out there…. MK, Rebecca Minkoff, etc. Fine with the above? Then still buy the knockoffs, because I do agree with you-that’s your right and I support your right to make that choice. But, it says a lot about a person who can support the above for a bag.
9 years ago I bought my first LV bag in an LV sore in SF. The boxes then was brown with a brown dust bag and they used a thin leather strap to tie the boxes… so it is not uncommon to see a brown box or brown dust bag.. even my receipt came in a brown folder. The ones they use today are orange.
A creator took her LV bag to be fixed by LV and they changed her internal lining which had a unique code on it, she thought that code authenticated the bag but when she asked LV they said the only way to authentic the bag is by keeping the original receipt of purchase.
I dated a woman who used one of these services to tell if her bags were real. She had a vintage bag that she knew was real and valuable. They told her it was a fake then tried to charge$200 to give it back.
Perception is everything, I remember saving up for my first LV and some coworkers automatically thought it was fake because I was a young black girl. At that point I really stopped caring what people's opinions were, people will always have their opinions based on how you look. After this I shopped in H Q D U P S. If you drive a Bentley and get out of the car with a fake Hermès, no one will question you.
These expensive bags are no longer a luxury. You had all the smash and grab crime going on, you can buy the bags second hand, and they even say the wealthy women no longer carry them for fear of theft. Stupid purchase.
QC on "luxury" items is often surprisingly bad. Especially on Nike shoes, you'll see pairs coming from different factories and they look completely different, sometimes they look so shite they look worse than fakes.
Bought my wife a LV about a year ago, as a gift, from a LV Boutique….what I didnt know is, she “found a great deal online” for the same style bag, and ordered it. When I gave her the bag, is when I found out about the one she purchased, and was on its way. I paid $5k… she paid $450. When the obviously fake one she purchased came in…i looked it over alongside the authentic one…then took them both to a separate LV Boutique to see what they had to say… after 2-3 hours they finally ID’d the correct as a fake. So, unless it REAKLY REALLY matters to you, do your thing. But I wasted $4550…
Calling a loupe a microscope is the first red flag. Then you can't even say it's authentic without someone else telling you it's authentic first. I'd never ask this clown to authenticate any of my possessions.
After the 1990s and early 2000s most of those "luxury" Sold their trademarks to Asian conglomerates where they're now made and mass in China, Korea, Vietnam and more. To that is why quality is not the same as it used to be.
The House of Vuitton Is wealthy because they have extracted funds from the Lower to upper middle class seeking to come across as more well-to-do than they actually are. Self made millionaires and billionaires rarely waste money on this type of stuff.
Are you able to authenticate clothing as well?? Had a horrible experience with the real real and they sold me an item that did not fit, so I sent it back to reconsign and they told me it was not authentic. Would love your input!
I assume it’s one that didn’t quite pass inspection and was sold at a discount either before or after ending up on a secondary market. Shockingly, a lot of “bootleg” goods are actually authentic, they just weren’t approved through QC.
Honestly I would 100% pay $100 for a rip-off bag than pay thousands for an authentic one. If the fake is good enough that no one can tell without in depth examination it’s good enough. Also I’m not paying thousands for a bag anyways so if someone gets conned that just the price of dealing in that world where your just paying for a brand name
Bro it even if it was fake it might as well be real , the quality is just as good . Really shows how people just pay for brand names and not the actual product . I would actually bet that fake LV bag like that would be more durable than a real LV bag. But it is real so idk lol
It actually should have been in the brown bag, since AH is the manufacturer location 3 and 8 symbolise the 38th week out of 52 and the 1 and 6 means 2016. So in 2016 they were still using brown bags and the Capucines was introduced 2013 F/W. I had a feeling it was authentic since some of hotstamping on Taurrilon leather can be difficult and quality of the stamp depends 😅. I used to work in LV and there is another way to tell if bags are authentic, but that’s for 2019+ LG’s only
I don't understand the hype behind designer merchandise. You're paying them and giving them free advertising, they should be paying you to advertise their stuff.
You could have scanned it with NFS Tools and would immediately find out if it’s authentic or not. Every LV bag is chipped, I was working for LV for a year, so I know. 😊
I'm studying to become a Seamstress and looking at the quality of some of these extremely expensive brands just makes me sad... It's just so bad and some people seriously try to tell me they're paying for "quality". No. You're really not. When some of our second years could do a better job you're reallllllly not.
As a designer I guess it would matter for your product but people are really concerned with this I have authentic and fake bags and can’t tell the difference but my wallet does 🤷🏽♀️🤣 I buy things I like not for the name I have loved LV since I was a kid an didn’t know what it was I just like their color and logo original design but people will go broke just to have on something designer smh 😂
People asking if it matters if it's authentic. It depends. Are you just gonna wear this bag out and be done with it? Buy fake. If you try to sell it you must say it's knockoff or you could be charged with fraud. Charge knockoff prices. Like if you paid $80 then you can't expect more than $50. If you're looking for an investment piece that you'll take really good care of and never really use/keep in decent condition, you'll be able to profit or get your money back. Depending on the quality. If you keep it like new then you'll likely make a profit, depending on how long you wait. The cheaper and more there are of the bag, the less it'll appreciate and it'll take longer for it to become a rare piece. And finally, if you want a high quality bag that is unique and high quality, get a bespoke bag, they were handmade and will last forever. I think that's a better investment in a bag you can use.
Only issue is when people purchase genuine keep the receipts and send back 1-1 copies for a refund or credit note.. I'm a collector/seller of a certain brand and even with Certi logos and art numbers etc the 1-1 copies are literally direct to the genuine, Certi works as they just go to stores take pics of same season CLG and sell them to the copiers in China who transfer to the 1-1. 22 years I've been buying and selling and even I got fooled with a £22 copy of a £250 item. Right down to the small stitch details and hidden marks the original manufacturer's hide. Now sold the stock I owned and just buy off close friends, can't even trust high Street stores in reality now it's getting scary good how well they copy items now.
I have actually witnessed someone who got an orange shade box with brown bag even saw the proof that it had infant been purchased from the lv website there was an actual note in the box explaining the reason for the brown dust bag, as far as I could work out the item my friend ordered should have had a the opposite colour box but they supposedly ran out of that specific box colour at the warehouse his item was dispatched from literally to this day it baffles me how a company so big could run out of that specific box in one of its warehouses but the fact he had the receipt and order confirmation from the lv website proved that the item he bought is authentic
That bag is a capucine I worked in operations for Louis Vuitton 2013-2014. I would need to see the bag in person but based off the date code alone I say its fake. Again it would make it easier for me to know for sure if I saw it in person.
My sister in law got a Louie Vuitton for christmas. I watched her open it. All Louie Vuitton come with a certificate of authenticity. (Yes). If it doesn't have a cert, chances are it's not real. Also the orange color is a lot brighter. More pale? Muted tone. Also he's right about the bag the purse comes in.
People who copy these bags are criminals and the people who charge these extortionate prices are criminals too. But, no one is forcing anyone to buy these silly bags.
For as much as you pay for those bags, they could at least make their stamps look good…I thought it was fake for sure
Well you pay for branding not quality lol
@@mightymouse6132 you spelled nonsense wrong You pay for nonsense, not quality 😜
@@itmattersnot1216 considering you get something in return worth thousands of dollars if resold it's def not nonsense
@@PawsitivelyQuestionable if someone’s willing to pay that for nonsense again
@@ArtilleryAndy it's a very smart investment.
If you need a microscope to see if it’s a fake, does it really matter if it’s fake or not?
Yes if you’re selling it. IMO nothing wrong with a rep. But to sell a replica as an authentic is fraud.
Yes
Maybe it is more an ethical problem of stealing someone else design and for maybe investment issues (many people buy luxury bags also for investments reasons)
@@nicolaspachecoarango Anyone thinking fashion is a good investment deserves to get scammed, its all a load of consumerism crap anyway.
Yes because you can either pretend to have good stuff or actually have good stuff. I personally think that owning copies of things is actually quite disrespectful towards the originals creators. I don’t care if Louis Vuitton charge whatever for their stuff, I won’t buy it. But I’m also not going to pretend like I want it by owning fake copies of their things either.
Years ago, 2009 to be exact my friend bought a vintage LV bag from Liberty in London. Only to get it valued by LV to find out it was a fake!! So her dad made a complaint and LV took Liberty of London to court over selling a fake!!! 😅 (update, for all the questions. LV took Liberty to court, the item was a vintage from the 80’s and was even on display in own glass stand. I went with her to look at it, I didn’t know she would buy it. Her father is from Taiwan and owns a golf course out there, so he has money/ connections. She obviously got her money back, I have no idea what happened with the law suit (was in London) I know that Liberty apologised to her father and blamed it on their buyer. 💁🏻♀️ so when you buy a vintage bag always get it valued.
What a waste of energy
Did they win their money back and legal costs? I would be scared that I would lose money by taking them to court.
Oh wow lol damn imagine paying authentic prices only to be walking around with a fake tho 🫠
@@caracopland710 waste for who? The dad paid for a product he received a fake of, reported it. That’s the end of the dad being involved, and then LV sued the store. Sooo no it’s not a waste..
Than What happened? I wanna know the ending
With LV quality declining it makes the job of copying their stuff much easier for the criminals.
A good way to know if the bag is a good replica is the quality is better than the real thing. Sad but true. 🤨🤣🤣🤣
Even a bad replica is sometimes as good as, if the original is Italian. 1😑
More like LV are the criminals, both with their past and current practises.
The higher the demand and the more made the quality will be lower.
The fakes are probably higher quality
Waitttt so he went through all the trouble of smelling, using magnifying glass and microscopic photo just to make one call to auntheticate the bag? 😩
well he had to know what to ask about on the call didnt he?
@@kelseyyyyyyyy9852 ooo sorry it was a genuine question cuz i really don’t understand the process of authenticating designer bags… from an outside perspective it seems like double the work.
@@BrainyNairb yeah I hear ya, sounds redundant but sometimes that's how things have to be done lol
I wonder if you could look up your own bag...
@@mitylene_bailey absolutely. Call them and they’ll tell you what they need to help you. It’s very easy and quick.
authentic but rush in production. typical big brands
I thought he meant that the bag was fake since his paper Does Not spell authentic correctly...
Might be in another language since “authentic” was shown in the text reply
Yea I thought that too?!
@@JakeJAZhe just spelled it a
As it sounds in his accent
jesus christ you people are dense
He just writes it phonetically for a bit of humour
True story I once purchased a fake Balenciaga bag from a knock off website for $250. I went and got it authenticated and they said it was authentic.
Dang.
The crazy thing about "knock offs" is that they are actually real bags, just imperfect or haven't had a chance to be finished properly by said company.
I'd have serious doubts with their authentication department
But I do know someone who is from a country who makes designer bags and she has a friend who works for them. They make bags after hours out of the same products and sell them as fakes
You should burn it. They are peddaling child abuse
My mum's black tourillon wallet was sent in for servicing because the gold clasp had been damaged. When it was returned to us it was given in a dust bag in that brown velvety material. Possibly sent in for a service.
Either that, or they had more than one LV and forgot which box the bag came with
I get my car serviced, not my handbags!
@@Smaugette for realluh!!
If you cant tell the difference between a microscope and a magnifying lens than you're in trouble mate
Why exactly
@@bizzarebanana3041 i use both the tools regularly, and unless, there's a translation mistake, the thing he is using is not a microscope
@@leaodaestrela5250 I know but why would that mean he’s in trouble
@@bizzarebanana3041 figure of speech... i meant, if i can tell a microscope from a magnifying lens, how can he possibly distinguish between and original and a fake LV?
@@leaodaestrela5250 well it’s part of his job 😐
I wonder what made it authentic after having very strange items.
Tbh since it’s second hand the owners could’ve bought the dust bag second hand. That’s not off putting. BUT if LV gave sold it new in the brown and orange, it would be a red flag.
Provenance
The reason why bags like this exist in rotation and population with a little inconsistencies, or slight errors, is because they are known for providing a certain service. Their items need to be stellar, so in the factory, if an item is inspected, and it does not fit their mark of proficiency they are discarded, but those discarded items are usually get sent to other lower chain stores or shops and people think that they’re fake like many in this comment thread but they are an actual authentic item just with minor flaws that the company deemed not to live up to their superb expectancy for client purchases
You got proof? Cause LV only sells at LV Stores and online. No other Store is allowed to. And LV has never ever granted a discount... So just because it sounds believable or other brands do it like that does not mean youre right
That very well is the fact in many cases. Unfortunately though it's not when it comes to Louis Vuitton they'll burn their items before wholesaling them.
I was selling my LV on a local sale site. A nasty hater got on there and said some things she shouldn't have. I thought I had made the mistake of throwing out the authenticity certificate, so was selling at an extremely low price. It was a gift from someone who was thanking me, who could afford the real thing. I went back and forth with her, knocking her comments down as she contradicted herself constantly. I ended up selling it to a woman who needed it for her laptop. And guess what? That certificate was in a hidden pocket I missed! Nice lady got the benefit. Hater lost out.
Ahh sorry to hear you went through this!! Glad it turned out well in the end :)
Love this ending!!!
no one "needs" an authentic LV bag for their laptop. wow
@@paddington1670 it wasn’t meant literally Jesus Christ 🙄 someone missed nap time.
Louis Vuitton doesn’t come with certificates of authenticity lol. Chanel Prada and Miu Miu do
If you have to check a bag out that thoroughly before you know if it's real then I don't mind having a fake one
But you don’t want to pay authentic prices for a fake product.
Yeah but at 6 times the real worth go for it.ive got a Ford ferrari
Is this video trying to say that Louis Vuitton is horrible quality? Because that’s kinda the vibe.
No, just showing the variation depending on the age of the bags :)
😆
I have been buying Louis Vuitton bags since 1981... yes, I'm old.
I wouldn't be able to tell who's carrying a fake bag unless it's quite obvious.
Moral of the story, pay $40 for a fake and nobody will ever know the difference.
Pay thousands for an authentic one and you will have people thinking it’s fake anyway.
If it’s a thousand or more dollar difference in price, it shouldn’t require a microscope to tell them apart.
Imagine your job is to authenticate stuff but you have to call someone else to authenticate it for you lol
Lol
Imagine not having any sort of understanding how a basic job works there are other people that have to verify your evidence lol
I used to fix chromebooks for the school district and I had to call someone who knows more than I did a few times. My buddy is a mechanic and he does the same thing. It’s almost like if you don’t know something it’s better to ask a veteran on the subject rather than just not doing the job. Hope you can do better man, good luck
Even doctors ask for second opinions
@@therealmykag yeah but this wasn’t a second opinion he’s calling to literally get the answer not to confirm his.
When people put more value in a bag, than they do human beings.
It's Pimblets younger brother, Paddy the baggie!! 😂
😭😭 lol
Bruh this needs to be the top comment
This is what happens when the fake is made better than the original 🤣
I love my FAKE bags. I don't care what others think. I can spend my money in the manner in which I please.
Yeah, it's totally your right to pay towards organised crime, money laundering, drugs, prostitution, ppl smuggling and whatever else these criminals are into. 👍
@@BB25_25 Real companies also have moral deficits.
I’m fine with buying $6 bags at thrift stores and $45 on Amazon. $50 at target. Couldn’t care less
@@neoloanderson6676 not the same.. but rather than have principles, sure, just pay for modern slavery and paedo rings.
First off, absolutely you may spend your money how you choose. However, it’s important that you know that counterfeit bags are used to fund human trafficking as well as drug and arms trafficking, terrorism and other illicit crimes. Legitimate companies may not be a shining example of morality, but they’re nothing like organized crime. Beyond the huge issues of trafficking in illicit goods, the items are ALL made in child labour or woman labour facilities. Children are stolen from their homes and forced to work until they die… they’re raped and often lose limbs from factory injury as they’ve had no training and are using machinery that requires it. The women are raped and impregnated to ensure a perpetual loop of undocumented work force… the facilities are rat-infested and smell of death. At the end? These women and children are thrown in group graves… Finally, the items themselves are made of materials that do not follow any codes, so lead seeping into your blood stream from the handle of a bag? You got it… much of the fancy leather treatment is done with mercury bc it’s cheap…. Another fun cancer-causing metal entering your blood stream…. So please remember, when you’re carrying one of those knock offs, you are responsible for the rape and pillage of children and women in 3rd world countries, so you can look “cool” or “rich” or whatever your reasons are. Maybe you simply Like the bag? Buy an inspired one. There are ethical dupes of so many bags out there…. MK, Rebecca Minkoff, etc. Fine with the above? Then still buy the knockoffs, because I do agree with you-that’s your right and I support your right to make that choice. But, it says a lot about a person who can support the above for a bag.
"Microscope"
Sir that's a jeweler's loop.
my bad 😬
I have a dust bag like that for my alma bb in tourillon leather which was a special edition.
It's Taurillon
@@noeaguinaga4018 no it isn’t
I've heard of certain big label buying their fakes and selling them as originals, as the fakes were such good quality!
9 years ago I bought my first LV bag in an LV sore in SF. The boxes then was brown with a brown dust bag and they used a thin leather strap to tie the boxes… so it is not uncommon to see a brown box or brown dust bag.. even my receipt came in a brown folder. The ones they use today are orange.
Hey Timeka! yes that's true 🥰
They said that in the video tho lol. Brown boxes have brown dust bags.
A creator took her LV bag to be fixed by LV and they changed her internal lining which had a unique code on it, she thought that code authenticated the bag but when she asked LV they said the only way to authentic the bag is by keeping the original receipt of purchase.
Exactly, it's a bag, not an investment. A gamble if anything! How many of the stores are selling the best fakes?! 😆
One can borrow a receipt from a friend and then copy it!
Paddy the baddy changed careers after all that heat he got.
I dated a woman who used one of these services to tell if her bags were real. She had a vintage bag that she knew was real and valuable. They told her it was a fake then tried to charge$200 to give it back.
Still a fake one is a better purchase! You need to be an expert to see the difference!
Perception is everything, I remember saving up for my first LV and some coworkers automatically thought it was fake because I was a young black girl. At that point I really stopped caring what people's opinions were, people will always have their opinions based on how you look. After this I shopped in H Q D U P S. If you drive a Bentley and get out of the car with a fake Hermès, no one will question you.
These expensive bags are no longer a luxury. You had all the smash and grab crime going on, you can buy the bags second hand, and they even say the wealthy women no longer carry them for fear of theft. Stupid purchase.
Patty the baddie went from punches to purses😂
paddy the baggie
Man, Paddy the Baddy really changed after he dyed his hair
It's crazy how much they sound alike
@@JamesRockefeller45they're from the same city. It's a scouse accent (liverpool).
@@SOMEONE-cd9wf he isnt a scouser are you mad 🤣🤣🤣🤣 we dont speak the same at all bro he is from birkenhead
I always look at “fake” as a method to pay for the same product with less price on branding.
Paddy the baddy voiceover 🤣🤣
hiyaaa
Best way to tell if something made in France is fake is if it's made too well.
Haha
Patty retired to live a life of examining fake bags
If you really have to do this much investigation just to find the fake one, then I would rather just buy the knock off. 🙄🙄
I just love his accent so much.
Bri-ish? 😳
@@arli6226 i think it’s Scottish accent
@@GlenHavenKenzo 😳😏
@@GlenHavenKenzoit’s a Scouse accent. He’s from Liverpool:)
@@GlenHavenKenzoit's a scouse english accent.
Brown dust bags doesn’t mean they are fake. Those are the old dust bags, they are a think material since the lining of the dust bag is a soft velvet.
What is orfentik? Please someone.
Authentic x
@@luxecollective Thanks for the translation
I was confused bc it's also an acronym for KONTERFIT
QC on "luxury" items is often surprisingly bad. Especially on Nike shoes, you'll see pairs coming from different factories and they look completely different, sometimes they look so shite they look worse than fakes.
Bought my wife a LV about a year ago, as a gift, from a LV Boutique….what I didnt know is, she “found a great deal online” for the same style bag, and ordered it. When I gave her the bag, is when I found out about the one she purchased, and was on its way. I paid $5k… she paid $450. When the obviously fake one she purchased came in…i looked it over alongside the authentic one…then took them both to a separate LV Boutique to see what they had to say… after 2-3 hours they finally ID’d the correct as a fake. So, unless it REAKLY REALLY matters to you, do your thing. But I wasted $4550…
That run of bags actually had a bad Stamp batch. They are known as Smudgies.
Calling a loupe a microscope is the first red flag.
Then you can't even say it's authentic without someone else telling you it's authentic first.
I'd never ask this clown to authenticate any of my possessions.
After the 1990s and early 2000s most of those "luxury" Sold their trademarks to Asian conglomerates where they're now made and mass in China, Korea, Vietnam and more. To that is why quality is not the same as it used to be.
The House of Vuitton Is wealthy because they have extracted funds from the Lower to upper middle class seeking to come across as more well-to-do than they actually are. Self made millionaires and billionaires rarely waste money on this type of stuff.
Are you sure? Then tell Bezos to stop buying from Brunello Cucinelli.
plus the stamp says "made in France', it should NEVER say it, either "made in Spain" for most belts or "made in Paris" for bags
Here for the accent ngl
You never know nowadays with such horrible quality control on designer brands these days and some pretty good quality control on alot of fakes
It was really wonky! I love that. Lol 😆 🤣
LOL 🤣
This is why I just buy fauxs and indie bags to begin with....
WTF is orfentik? Even google can’t tell me what it means.
They are saying it’s Authentic but this is absolutely not.
its Authentic
It’s the accent…… 🤦🏽♀️ it’s a joke, spelling it like how he says it 🤣 geez
"All these flaws are suspicious."
"Those are features."
what an interesting job.
For what people pay for that ridiculous bag they should get scammed into a fake one. You're literally just paying for the name itself anyway.
Are you able to authenticate clothing as well?? Had a horrible experience with the real real and they sold me an item that did not fit, so I sent it back to reconsign and they told me it was not authentic. Would love your input!
Sell it to a pawn shop, and buy a new one that’s real, that’s the best u can do
Hey Kate we do not offer a sole authentication service, sorry!
The Real Real do not authenticate their products before selling.
I assume it’s one that didn’t quite pass inspection and was sold at a discount either before or after ending up on a secondary market. Shockingly, a lot of “bootleg” goods are actually authentic, they just weren’t approved through QC.
this video is very confusing
Honestly I would 100% pay $100 for a rip-off bag than pay thousands for an authentic one. If the fake is good enough that no one can tell without in depth examination it’s good enough. Also I’m not paying thousands for a bag anyways so if someone gets conned that just the price of dealing in that world where your just paying for a brand name
so is the bag real or fake ?
It’s orfentik
@@giovanninumeroso what does that mean ?
What on Earth does this mean? 😅
its Authentic 🤣
Yes, that bag is very fake. The dust bag could have came from a different bag, but the bag itself is fake. The date code is incorrect
Just first glance I already know it’s fake. The handle is so ugly.
its real 😬
It will be easier to authenticate once every brand starts using vechain VET blockchain
clearly a fake
its real 😬
why?....because entrupy says so?
made in France with a small m ??
Microscope?! Buddy that’s a magnifying glass 😂
Here’s my question has the craftsmanship quality of Louis Vuitton specifically gone down over the years?
What a shocker a scousers known all about fake goods 😂
Bro it even if it was fake it might as well be real , the quality is just as good . Really shows how people just pay for brand names and not the actual product . I would actually bet that fake LV bag like that would be more durable than a real LV bag. But it is real so idk lol
It actually should have been in the brown bag, since AH is the manufacturer location 3 and 8 symbolise the 38th week out of 52 and the 1 and 6 means 2016. So in 2016 they were still using brown bags and the Capucines was introduced 2013 F/W. I had a feeling it was authentic since some of hotstamping on Taurrilon leather can be difficult and quality of the stamp depends 😅. I used to work in LV and there is another way to tell if bags are authentic, but that’s for 2019+ LG’s only
I don't understand the hype behind designer merchandise. You're paying them and giving them free advertising, they should be paying you to advertise their stuff.
You could have scanned it with NFS Tools and would immediately find out if it’s authentic or not. Every LV bag is chipped, I was working for LV for a year, so I know. 😊
I'm studying to become a Seamstress and looking at the quality of some of these extremely expensive brands just makes me sad... It's just so bad and some people seriously try to tell me they're paying for "quality".
No. You're really not. When some of our second years could do a better job you're reallllllly not.
My Alma PM was purchased in boutique 2015-came in brown box with leather tie and dark cream colour dust bag-not a brown dust bag.
girl. That *yutulu* bag, you look great carrying it! ! I like it! 😍😍
Just remember LOUIS VUITTON NEVER GOES ON SALE EVER UNLESS ITS A RESALE But even those prices are EXPENSIVE.
no but you can get it cheaper second hand!
I was given a LV roller bag in 2007. Handle broke, took it for repair, found it was fake! Now I have a real one. Still travel with fake.
Idk why people dont just spend that money on a custom bag. Same money, way more baller
As a designer I guess it would matter for your product but people are really concerned with this I have authentic and fake bags and can’t tell the difference but my wallet does 🤷🏽♀️🤣 I buy things I like not for the name I have loved LV since I was a kid an didn’t know what it was I just like their color and logo original design but people will go broke just to have on something designer smh 😂
People asking if it matters if it's authentic. It depends. Are you just gonna wear this bag out and be done with it? Buy fake. If you try to sell it you must say it's knockoff or you could be charged with fraud. Charge knockoff prices. Like if you paid $80 then you can't expect more than $50.
If you're looking for an investment piece that you'll take really good care of and never really use/keep in decent condition, you'll be able to profit or get your money back. Depending on the quality. If you keep it like new then you'll likely make a profit, depending on how long you wait. The cheaper and more there are of the bag, the less it'll appreciate and it'll take longer for it to become a rare piece.
And finally, if you want a high quality bag that is unique and high quality, get a bespoke bag, they were handmade and will last forever. I think that's a better investment in a bag you can use.
Only issue is when people purchase genuine keep the receipts and send back 1-1 copies for a refund or credit note.. I'm a collector/seller of a certain brand and even with Certi logos and art numbers etc the 1-1 copies are literally direct to the genuine, Certi works as they just go to stores take pics of same season CLG and sell them to the copiers in China who transfer to the 1-1.
22 years I've been buying and selling and even I got fooled with a £22 copy of a £250 item. Right down to the small stitch details and hidden marks the original manufacturer's hide.
Now sold the stock I owned and just buy off close friends, can't even trust high Street stores in reality now it's getting scary good how well they copy items now.
I’m shock the bag is authentic. The heat stamp looks exactly like what one would find on a “replica” bag produced in China.
I have actually witnessed someone who got an orange shade box with brown bag even saw the proof that it had infant been purchased from the lv website there was an actual note in the box explaining the reason for the brown dust bag, as far as I could work out the item my friend ordered should have had a the opposite colour box but they supposedly ran out of that specific box colour at the warehouse his item was dispatched from literally to this day it baffles me how a company so big could run out of that specific box in one of its warehouses but the fact he had the receipt and order confirmation from the lv website proved that the item he bought is authentic
People willing to pay for overpriced vanity materials deserve to get scammed.
I wonder if it’s one of those that didn’t pass QC. Companies sell those to their employees at a discount.
That bag is a capucine I worked in operations for Louis Vuitton 2013-2014. I would need to see the bag in person but based off the date code alone I say its fake. Again it would make it easier for me to know for sure if I saw it in person.
Sorry to be ignorant but what does orfentik meant? Is it fake? Thanks
Authentic
My sister in law got a Louie Vuitton for christmas. I watched her open it. All Louie Vuitton come with a certificate of authenticity. (Yes). If it doesn't have a cert, chances are it's not real. Also the orange color is a lot brighter. More pale? Muted tone. Also he's right about the bag the purse comes in.
To the experts: So if this is LVs quality at this point, what bags are actually of great quality right now (leather, stitching, embossing, prints…)
I’ve seen some expensive items where the fake ones are more stylish & come in better option & to u think why don’t the official brand do this
No matter how real the bag is, your still being ripped off. The Bain of poor man’s existence. Spend what you can afford, but you only live once.
Dude out here sounding like paddy pimblet
Should’ve just looked at the stitching. It’ll be symmetrical all the way across the zippers.
The smell test is 80% of the gig.
Basically
If u know u know boys
I heard people make bank from selling fake luxury brands
You need a scouser to sniff out a fake...
People who copy these bags are criminals and the people who charge these extortionate prices are criminals too.
But, no one is forcing anyone to buy these silly bags.
Don't buy the so called "luxury" stuff. You are wasting your money on a joke. It's an illusion.
What does it matter if it’s fake when you have to get all forensic with it to come to a decision?