UPDATE December 2022 - I have just published a new, bigger book! Louis Vuitton: A Pre-Owned Authentication Reference Book which you can purchase on Amazon. 350+ pages with hundreds of images, visually reference date codes and heat stamps for most all manufacturing countries, vintage and newer heat stamps, a brief history along with comparison [...]
For the last few years I have been afforded amazing opportunities to speak at several national conferences about the luxury resale industry, how to get into and be successful and authentication. For each of these engagements, I spent months researching and putting together vast, educational presentations always thinking, this would be a great book. [...]
I am contacted on a daily basis about Louis Vuitton date codes and let me say it for the 1 billionth time, you cannot authentic by date codes. Period. While the date code in a Louis Vuitton item tells you where the item was made and when, this is not an indicator of an [...]
Education is the theme for 2020. This year has been a big one for the resale industry. The RealReal went public and are still having massive issues with authentication, social media platforms have become the new place to sell, brick and mortar stores are closing left and right and large players are popping up [...]
I literally cannot believe another woman has been arrested for the same scam of purchasing luxury bags as places like TJMaxx and returning counterfeits. Clearly something needs to be done about the massive amount of return fraud that is happening with e-commerce. MIAMI, Florida - Owning designer handbags is more often than not on [...]
The RealReal has responded to Chanel's lawsuit filed last November claiming that they (TRR) are selling counterfeits and it's everything you thought it would be and more. Below you can read both filings, the original from Chanel and TRR's response. I want to make one point that is in Chanel's original lawsuit and highlighted [...]
Reposted from the Fashionlaw.com: THE FASHION LAW EXCLUSIVE — Chanel is not a fan of luxury resale sites. Several months after filing suit against What Goes Around Comes Around, the Paris-based design house has named The RealReal in a trademark infringement and counterfeiting lawsuit, accusing the popular resale site of “selling counterfeit CHANEL handbags,” [...]
Chanel vs What Goes Around Comes Around trademark lawsuit hands a small, early victory to the luxury brand Originally posted on Fashionlaw.com Chanel does not want others using its name and in a strongly-worded lawsuit filed this spring, the Paris-based luxury brand reminded What Goes Around Comes Around (“WGACA”) of that fact. The Karl [...]
The data is the only thing I can see of value and honestly, there are other companies like @trendfulinc and @rebagofficial who are already doing it and better.
While the insurance sounds like a good idea, not sure I would pay for it. Thoughts?
Profitable in 2024? We’ll see…..
🔗 in bio to the article.
@vestiaireco and @gucci have partnered which will be the first of many brands testing the resale market with these larger platforms! 🔗
Here in the US, our laws are way too lax and sellers are free to push counterfeits on social platforms. Enacting a law where marketplaces have to turn over the sellers information is a step in the right direction. 🔗 to the Pulse News
“The proposed amendment of the law requires an online platform to stop the sale of an item when the item is found to be a counterfeit. If the platform is negligent of such a duty, it could constitute an infringement of a trademark. If the platform refuses a trademark owner’s request to provide details about the seller of counterfeits, the Industrial Property Dispute Resolution Committee intervenes and, after a review, orders that the requested information be provided.
“Currently, a trademark owner cannot really do anything by law if an online platform does not provide personal details of a seller who sells counterfeits for privacy reasons,” one unnamed fashion industry insider said. “The proposed amendment may not directly hold online marketplaces legally accountable for counterfeits, but at least the trademark owner can quickly respond to the manufacturers and the sellers of the relevant counterfeits.”
“On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 a.m. CET local time, two French Muslim terrorists and brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they murdered 12 people and injured 11 others.”
Here is your direct link between counterfeits and murder.
#rep #dupe #bougieonabudget #fakes
When all three founders leave their own company, something is amiss.
🔗in bio to read the article on Vogue.com
While no one can predict the future, it’s not a good sign when a company as big as Nordstroms is closes this many locations or a whole country. 🔗in bio to article
It’s called reverse engineering and to all the companies that clickbait authentication tips but leave out any useful information because you don’t want to help the “counterfeiters”, that’s lame.
Don’t worry though, I’ve got you and if you want to learn how to authenticate, I’ll be sharing everything I know very soon and I’m not selling anything! #authentication #luxury #bags #resale #education #consignment @theofficialaia
That “authentication” fee was one of the dumbest decisions TRR has made but thanks to people like @shannon_truax its gone.
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