Target selling fake Coach bags? Duh.
It seems Target may have been selling fake Coach bags. The article goes on to tell how there was a similar case of Walmart selling fake Fendi bags in its Sam's Club stores.
This naturally prompts a few questions.
A) Has it been too long since I've been in a Target store? Have they gotten more upscale than I thought? I knew they had Isaac Mizrahi, but it's not like he was ever a real designer anyway. Yeah, yeah. He had fashion shows and all the rest of that. But let's not show the name of "Designer" such disdain, please. When did Target, the slightly cooler, slightly more expensive, slightly less trashy version of Walmart get into the $1000 handbag game?
B) Who are the women buying these bags at Target? Did they truly think they were getting a real Coach bag for the ultra-low price of $39.95 (or whatever stupidly low price they decided to assign). Frankly, anything less than $700, and I hope you are better at spotting a forgery than Scotland Yard. If you bought this thinking that you got a real Coach bag, you deserve the humiliation when you find out otherwise. Oh, and since I'm on the topic, the one you got off Ebay is fake too. Just thought I'd let you know.
C) Who would pay that much for a bag anyway? I have some really cool purses, and I don't think I've paid over $150 for any single purse. Even then, I must have had a contact high. My coolest purse was $40, and I cannot go anywhere without getting compliments on it. Seriously, if you pay me a grand, I will put aside any hippie tendencies I have and skin the baby cow myself. I'll hire Guatemalan widows to lovingly handsew every stitch. I'll have a Tibetan monk bless it so that it will bring you good luck.
D) Not so much related to the story at hand, but I thought I'd share anyway. I once knew a girl who said she could tell the real ones from the fake ones because the fake ones will burn if you hold a lighter to it. Ok, my recent trip to NYC taught me that none of the dudes on the street corner are going to take too kindly to you trying to set the purses on fire. Buy it because you like it or leave it alone. But don't buy it for the name!! 'Cause karma dictates that someday, someone will hold a flame up to you and discover that your bag is real, but you aren't.
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I am just not into this stuff.
I don't have a clue about these brands or anything. I live in a hole and tote around a backpack purse from some discount place. I think it's leather.
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Good for you! Those
Good for you! Those backpack purses are so handy, and a leather one would be stylish too.
I am into this stuff, and I can't even fathom spending thousands on a purse. Furthermore, these purses are really kind of ugly. They are some big lump of soft leather with pockets and advertising in the form of little logos all over the bag. Now, riddle me this. On a website, a lot of people pay a premium to remove the advertising. But you pay extra for it because it's on a purse???? Weird.
Finally, I think these kind of bags leave the user in a bad situation. I admit prejudice if I see a woman carrying one of these. I think either A) she's not smart with money, B) she got ripped off and isn't smart with money, or C) she knows she bought a fake one, which means she knowingly paid good money for something so ugly. lol I know it's wrong of me to think this way.
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agreed
I'm not a fan of the busy-ness of these purses. I like my purses brown. Boring! The backpack thing helps me out tons because I have a muscle spasm disorder. Back when I was taking physical therapy, using a shoulder bag was a no no because they didn't want me to be lopsided in any way. The kind of purse you just carry around was not an option for me because if I'm carrying something in my hand, I'm leaving it somewhere. It's just a fact. So backpack it is. I like it alot and can carry it and the diaper bag easily.
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So fanny pack or backpack,
So fanny pack or backpack, huh? Wise decision.
I am a big fan of those itty bitty handbags that have no shoulder strap because there isn't really room for one. But I'll be the first one to admit that I CONSTANTLY leave them places. On top of my car, in a NYC diner, at our Mexican restaurant. Everywhere. The purse I'm carrying now is a cigar box purse, so it's like carrying around a small toolbox. If it slides off the top of my car, I'm pretty sure to notice it. lol
I cannot imagine having one of these purses and what I would have to do to the kids when they put their candy in my thousand dollar purse. There's a disaster waiting to happen. I need a good solid purse that can take a lot of abuse and neglect. And you might have talked me into a leather backpack purse, because it totally fits the bill.
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ok, erm...
Fanny has an entirely different meaning in British English so when I saw 'fanny pack' I was somewhat confused! I mean, I've heard of a guy having a nice packet, but a fanny pack?? lmao
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Oh no!!! ROFLMAO!!!
Ahem. In the US, a fanny is your bum. And now that I've googled it, I vow to edit the entry above and never use the word again. ROFL!! Too funny.
Ack! Can't edit! So now it gets to linger out there in cyberspace forever. Ohhhh, it's gonna be one of those kind of days, isn't it?
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fanny pack?
I had better google it myself, although I bet I can guess. But you didn't tell her what it is - it's a thing that fastens around your waist and it has a small purse-like attachment with a zipper for you to put your stuff in.
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Hehe!
Don't worry folks, I'm familiar with American English too! And I know what a fanny (snick) pack is too. What makes me laugh though is there are many people who don't see the translations in the opposite direction or are perhaps unaware there are any.
Honest mistake there, but you've done it now!! heheheh (only kidding)
I'm sure most people will know exactly what you're talking about.
Try understanding some other language trabslations such as the Portuguese for a car jack (that thing you use for changing a tyre), which is macaco (or monkey, in English!)
In Spanish it's spider in English!
Weird huh?
PS In British English a fanny pack is called a bum bag!
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ROFL!
Yes. That's me! I'm the person who doesn't know the translation in the opposite direction, so I put the words "fanny pack" on a website for the whole world to see. lol And I thought I was well-versed in the language differences. I prided myself on knowing that a geezer isn't an elderly man. I speak remedial level Cockney! And I'm brought down by a bum bag.
Well, you guys drive on the wrong side of the road, so maybe you got your fannies on the wrong side too. (Just kidding. Couldn't resist.)
LMAO!
Hey hey! Depends on whose perspective you're looking from!!
Maybe YOU GUYS have your 'fannies' on the wrong side!!
LMAO
That word makes me laugh so much I'm seriously gonna have to shut my laptop so I can breathe!
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Actually, on one of my two
Actually, on one of my two trips to London, we heard a pretty good argument for why Americans are the ones that drive on the wrong side of the road. It was a good enough argument to convince me that the British do it right, but not a good enough argument to convince me to switch after I returned home. lol
So maybe we are backwards! Goodness. All this time, when someone has told me that I've got it "a$$ backwards", and they were RIGHT! lol
Still LMAO!
No, probably not wise if you and your fanny (lmao again!) are planning on surviving on the american 'highways'!
Right right or right wrong, front fanny or back fanny, tomayto-tomahto, potayto-potahto(!), hood-bonnet, trunk-boot..
Hey these are actually quite cool!
Interesting how one little word can spark of a chain of events...
... well in my head anyway!
I don't get out much...:S (LOL)
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Price-point correction..
Coach bags rarely cost as high as $1,000. Average price is $300.
I believe Target was selling these bags and the Dooney & Bourkes for $100-something, which totally makes sense for what they were, if real. TJMaxx gets these bags at a discount, older ones or plainer ones. Marshall's too.
eBay...
And it's totally possible to buy authentic Coach bags on eBay. It's easy to learn how to tell if they're authentic.
I believe ANY bag could set fire, auth or not. If the bag's authentic, you've just ruined it. That's silly. Maybe this comes from the thinking that people should burn fakes?
Thanks for commenting
Thanks for commenting DesignerElla. $1000, $300, or $100, I am not interested. Honestly, I'm not interested in a Coach that costs more than $10. Those are my second least favorite, with Louis Vuitton being the first. They are almost without exception, the ugliest bags I've ever seen. Of bags in a similar (and slightly higher) price range, Prada has the best in my opinion. BUT...
It still smacks of so much excess to me. I do not need a $100 purse. I definitely don't need a $300 purse. I am not necessarily suggesting that cheaper is better, but I just do not get the point of dropping $300+ on a purse that is going to get thrown into my car floor or my closet floor just like every other purse I own.
Yeah, the lady that suggested setting them on fire was slightly batty. I mean, if it catches fire that quickly, it's plastic. She can't tell plastic from leather at first glance?
And I'm still wondering why Target has $100 purses. I wonder why Target has half the stuff they do. I don't and won't get designer clothes from a low-end department store. And let's not get into the Michael Graves Monopoly set. lol