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It all depends on what kind of items you’re referring too. Certain kinds of items and brands get faked more often. Then it’s about the quality of the materials and craftsmanship.
Good thing is that most items that gets faked will have entire websites dedicated to authenticating them.
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I’m not sure myself, but most of what I buy at auction has “vintage dust” (as someone here on the forum called it), so I’m pretty sure of authenticity. However, I did find a site recently about determining the difference between real and reproduction. I haven’t really looked at it much yet, but it looked like it covered many categories. Check it out:
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here is another site that is sometimes helpful
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Louis Vuitton
https://www.lollipuff.com/blog/241/easy-louis-vuitton-bag-authentication-guide#comment-start=end -
Thank you very much for this information. This is helpful.
I am particularly looking for how to authenticate men and women’s accessories such as clothing, shoes, wallets, purses etc.
If you find an item at a thrift store that looks real and is a high end item, what do you use to make sure it really is before listing it at the value it would draw as a high end item?
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At thrift stores we’re very suspicious of designer clothing or accessories. Obviously Gucci, Prada, etc are so often faked That I dont expect to see them in the wild. Doesnt mean it cant happen, but I assume they’re fakes.
But at estate sales and auctions, designer stuff is more believable if it’s surrounded by other rich person’s items. Then the context makes sense. Rich people still buy fakes though.
There are lots of designer brands that are less known and dont have a “fake market” around it. Usually we just look at the quality in the material and stitching. Then we google it.
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Thank you Jay.
That is very helpful.
I was surprised at my find at a thrift so I am being extra careful. If it is real, the only thing I think is that someone must have just been cleaning out there closets while creating a donation pile. -
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I have been doing a little research – it may be the real deal. I am specifically looking for markers on it that show its legitimacy. In addition, to checking ebay, I went to the company’s website and found something very similar. Now, I am just trying to track down this exact one.
Thought I would be better safe than sorry, so I called ebay to see if they had someone who could help me. I thought if there was someone there who could help me authenticate it, if it got called into question by a buyer, ebay will have already put it through the authentification process. Turns out, they have an authentification team who only checks items once they have been listed and not before. That doesn’t make sense. If their team can verify once it is in the public domain and may have been flagged as a problem (which can cause it to be pulled and the seller’s selling rights to be limited or revoked), why not have a team that checks before in order to avoid the drama and chaos?
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It’s a wallet that I bought for 4 dollars and if real could sell for over a hundred. I am seeing that I am going to have to put some time into this, so I am going to have set it aside and go back in order to focus on getting other stuff listed. Oh, how wonderful it would be if there wasn’t such a strong black market with so many knock offs. Then we could just list an item at face value with the appropriate value price.
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