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Who Buys All The Fake Handbags On The Internet?

My French husband is holidaying in France. I am not. This means I’m a little lonely and when I’m a little lonely I tend to spend a lot of time looking at random things on the net.

Last night at 1.09am I was bidding on a vintage 1950s handbag which I won for a mere 8.04 thanks to dollars being more fun than pounds or Euros.

Trawling through page upon page of vintage salt and pepper shakers of course I don’t need another flamingo themed one but it doesn’t mean I don’t want it fake purses I decided to look at things from the modern day for a change.

I’m not an avid shopper of new stuff apart from food. After all I make tshirts for Red Hot Ruby and work from home so the only things I really need are you’ve guessed it tshirts and pyjamas and fake handbags. I wear them all year round the tshirts and the pyjamas sometimes adding a sweatshirt on top when it gets cold which despite it being summeris now.

I also wear jeans every single day so I have a faint interest in vintage Lee or vintage Levis but that’s about it. I don’t own a single designer item replica purses and that’s fine by me.

Admittedly if my husband came home with Mulberry’s Ostrich Bayswater bag I would pass out then surgically attach it to my right arm for the rest of my life not just because it’s a nice bag but because I would be adopting the ‘steal my bag steal me!’ policy for any prospective thief which I imagine would be fairly offputting. It’s a lovely bag replica handbags but it’s not worth remortgaging my flat for. replica louis vuitton handbags

Back to last night and ebay. I decided to type in some fancy names Dolce Gabbana Hermes Louis Vuitton Chloe and see what popped up. I really wanted to see how many counterfeit items popped up and whether as someone who has no idea what a Chloe Paddington bag looks like I could tell straight away that something fishy was going on. It turns out I could.

A Chloe Paddington bag was being sold by a ‘working mum with a 23monthold child who needs to turn out her wardrobe to make some money for our new baby’s nursery fees’. Really? I was intrigued.

Not only did the seller fill us in on her personal life do I really need to know that her IVF treatment has been successful? I’m just after a bag not a new friend but she also happens to have the biggest wardrobe known to man. Checking her feedback revealed that she’s sold over 100 bags recently all with tags and all for the same reason the nursery fees.

Oddly she has even sold the same designer handbags several times over. Buyers have all left positive feedback so happy are they with their knockoff goods. Clearly this seller lays on the personal drivel so that naive or more likely wanabee WAGs fall for it. Quite frankly I’m surprised their acrylic finger nails allow for any frantic last minute bidding.

Ebay have just paid out 30 million to the Louis Vuitton empire and 20000 to Hermes for allowing counterfeit goods which claim to be authentic under their name. Why I wonder are so many people still getting away with it? More to the point why are people buying it?

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