OK someone give me a reality check here, a designer bag on e-Bay with a low 'buy it now' price ...

[MrsSpoon]

... it's fake isn't it? No matter how cleverly they try to word it?

I think BOTH the Mulberry bag and the Chloe are copies if you look at the copy sellers list they do all the top designer bags.
These people are VERY good at what they do. I'M ashamed to say i was stung TWICE using e-bay losing alot of money booking a holiday and my friend bid on a plasma t.v. that ended up being a book on how to get a t.v. off e-bay.
e-bay doesnt stop all scams and the soon as 1 person in the 'network' is taken off they go under another name or their friends take over.
BEWARE if it seems too good to be true....it probably is .

It's all a bit of a minefield, thinking secondhand would be the best idea, but can you even trust that.

Actually I haven't mentioned I only had 4 hours sleep (if that) last night, was up most of the night cleaning up sick, probably just feeling sorry for myself and this will all seem like a terrible idea in the morning.

awwww poor u Mrs Spoon was babyspoon baarfing up- is bubba ok - are u okay

LOL if only it was a baby, we are talking a big 8 year old barfing his dinner all over his bed in the middle of the night (poor wee soul mind, he was obviously ill ), anyway I felt so sick myself after cleaning it up and sorting him out that I couldn't sleep, DS1 is fine now but I am shattered, going to bed very soon.

Someone with around 200 positive feedbacks (no negatives and no quirky comments like 'it might no be real but it's still nice') selling mostly the same brand of bag would be the type of seller you would buy from then?

Think you are right about the Mulberry Salsmum, I asked them if they guaranteed it was a genuine Mulberry and they got back to me and said "No guarantee because i dont still have the receipt", I then asked would they personally be willing to say that it is a genuine Mulberry and I have had no reply. No reply from the seller of the Chloe either.