Designer Handbags
I was scammed recently. I had every intention of purchasing an authentic Louis Vuitton handbag and I found a gorgeous one on ebay. I paid a high price for it, which I figured was worthwhile. I received the bag and fell in love with it immediately. A week after receiving my authentic handbag, I decided to take a look around Saks and see just how much of a bargain I’d gotten. The saleslady told me immediately that my bag wasn’t authentic. I was in shock. She told me, ever so politely, that there are more replica designer handbags on the market than authentic and it was becoming a huge legal issue. Of course, she filled me in on exactly how she was able to tell me that my bag was not authentic and gave me some tips on how to spot replica designer handbags. To me, it sounded way too complicated.
I wasn’t able to get a refund on my bag that I’d purchased from ebay because I had been using the handbag. I was disappointed but it was a valuable lesson learned. Unless you really know what you’re looking for and are prepared to spend a small fortune in a reputable store, chances are, you’ll be purchasing replica designer handbags instead of authentic. If you want to look like you have lots of money, carrying replica designer handbags isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, with the large amount of replicas in the world, most of the people you’ll see with a Louis Vuitton or other name brand are probably not authentic. Why spend the extra money to have the guaranteed authenticity when everyone is going to assume that your handbag isn’t real? Whether or not it is worth it is up to you.
You can walk down the streets of New York City and be led into a back alley where you will have your choice of lots of replica designer handbags. Some of them will be blatantly obvious replicas and others will fool even the most trained eyes. Be warned though, law officials and owners of these designer companies aren’t being as tolerant of replicas as they used to be. Ebay and other online retail sites have cracked down on being able to list certain name brands. Make sure that if you intend to sell something that is authentic, you have lots of proof to back it up. Otherwise, if you’re not sure if what you have is a replica or authentic, get someone’s opinion first or don’t list it. I’d much rather be safe than sorry.
Have you ever met a person that has a collection that has gotten out of control? The behavior may border on hoarding. We discovered that one of our aunts was this way. She lived by herself for twenty years after our uncle died. She was a very social and fun woman. She was always dressed very fashionably. She enjoyed shopping and visiting people. She would invite groups of people out to restaurants and pay for the meal. She said it was easier for her to do that than to cook. When she died she left her belongings to my two sisters and me. When we went to her house we realized why she did not have people over. Her house was packed with things that she had bought. There were narrow paths to allow you to get from room to room in the house.
As we started to sort through things we realized that several of the boxes contained handbags and purses. My sisters started laughing when they saw this. It was a running argument with our aunt when she was alive as to what to call them. Handbags and purses were her trademark. She always had very unique handbags and purses. She always referred to them as her clutches. She had a habit of misplacing them so when ever she was leaving a place she would have everyone searching for her clutch. I had never stopped to consider that she would have to store the hand bags and purses some where.
Jewelry was another thing that she collected in mass quantities as well as shoes to match all the clutches. The shoes were piles on the floor of her closet. One other closet was stacked with shoe boxes. At first we assumed that they contained shoes, but when we opened them we discovered that they were full of jewelry. She had costume jewelry mixed in with semi precious jewelry. We counted seventeen shoe boxes that were filled in addition she had several large jewelry boxes on her dresser.
We thought the task of going through her things and packing up her house would be fun and would take us a couple of weekends. As we started going through things we realized that we had a giant task ahead of us. We did not want to bring in an estate company to pack things, because we had no idea of what was in the house. We each took a week of vacation to pack, sort, and divide the things. I never would have guessed that our well dressed fun aunt was living with more merchandise than most department stores carry.