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Would you bid on an item from a brand new ebayer that you suspect might have fallen off the back of a lorry?

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CantSleepWontSleep · 18/12/2008 15:08

There's a handbag I like - £180 ish new. One has just turned up on ebay wanting a starting bid of £75. At that price I might get it, but not at full price as dh out of work at end of Jan.

Apparently the bag is new with tags. I asked why she is selling rather than returning to shop, and she reckons she's lost the receipt and it's too late now. She's selling another bag from the same designer too.

Am a bit wary as she's new with no feedback, and it sounds dodgy to cynical old me, but everyone has to have a first transaction at some point.

If I buy and it doesn't arrive, paypal will refund won't they?

Would you bid?

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meemar · 18/12/2008 15:14

I think it sounds dodgy.

I've bought things from people who are brand new ebayers, because I do agree everyone has to start somewhere. But I wouldn't at that kind of high price with suspicious goods.

Dropdeadfred · 18/12/2008 15:16

it may arrive and it will be fake
why would she have two bags from same designer that she happened to lose the receipt for>?

PippiCalzelunghe · 18/12/2008 15:17

has he got just those two items? paypal refunds to a 100% now any amount btw.

PippiCalzelunghe · 18/12/2008 15:18

yes I'd worry about whether is a fake.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 18/12/2008 15:54

She says 'has the security label inside it which prove its real ted baker' - does that prove it [clueless]?

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Dropdeadfred · 18/12/2008 15:55

nope...fakes can be really good and hard to spot

if it is real it's probably stolen from a shop

Pinkjennybellrock · 18/12/2008 15:56

Why would it have the security label inside if it had been genuinely purchased? [even more clueless than you]

Tortington · 18/12/2008 15:58

i would have no problem in purchasing back of lorry stuff, i wouldnt spend that amount on a new ebayer.

georgiemum · 18/12/2008 16:04

She could have bought it cheaper from a discount store (TK Max comes to mind) or from abroad (the US was cheap at one point!).

You do need to be wary I guess. Most things I have got from e-bay have been slightly iffy (ie a 'new' toy came in a bashed-up box so couldn't really be used for a present for a friends child, or videos that came without boxes).

I remember working with someone who's boyrfiend was a security guard at a nice clothes store. He said that thieves would run off with rails of clothes and flog them at the local markets.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 18/12/2008 16:11

Georgiemum - I worked in Debenhams many many moons ago, and it turned out to be the security guard with the market stall!

Custy - not even with the paypal backup?

[covets bag]

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MadameCheese · 18/12/2008 16:15

Don't touch it with a bargepole

JerricaBenton · 18/12/2008 16:59

would not touch it! no way!

sixlostmonkeys · 18/12/2008 17:06

what you've got to ask yourself is "Would you bid on an item from a brand new ebayer that you suspect might have fallen off the back of a lorry when dh will be out of work at the end of Jan"

I reckon the answer is "no"

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CantSleepWontSleep · 18/12/2008 18:18

He'll get more work slm, just not at as high a rate as the last few years (is self-employed contractor). This is pretty good economising for me .

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navyeyelasH · 18/12/2008 18:57

link? It's probably fake tbh.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 18/12/2008 19:32

here It's nothing fancy, but I need a big hand held one to double as change bag when I have ds in the carrier (ie all the time!).

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crokky · 18/12/2008 19:36

Too much money to spend on eBay IMHO.

PippiCalzelunghe · 18/12/2008 20:27

uhmmm if she genuinely had bought it and lost receipt etc she would have said it in her description as the honest one do. I'd be suspicious tbh.

BreevandercampLGJ · 18/12/2008 20:36

This bag is called roisin and is designed and sold by ted baker at a price of £180.

its a black croc effect leather hobo bag, completely leather and has alot of room to be the ideal day bag.

it has a really stylish large enamel buckle keeping the shape of the bag.

No I wouldn't anyway, but have you checked out the typing....[sheesh]

MsPontipine · 18/12/2008 20:39

Don't know why I'm staring at the photos trying to suss out whether it's kosher or not - I know bugger all about handbags!! I tend to go for huge canvas ones I can fit my kitchen sink in

It does look a bit shiney.

navyeyelasH · 18/12/2008 21:09

this is the real one

It looks fake to me; but hard to tell really.

goldFAQinsenceandmyrrh · 18/12/2008 21:14

I know sod all about handbags - I don't even carry a bag of any description - however looking at the ebay listing, and the link of the genuine article - it looks fake to me too.

Can't see very clearly - but the stiching around the close bit thingymajig doesn't look quite right, and the real deal looks very shiny - the ebay one is quite a bit duller.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 18/12/2008 21:22

lol at you all trying to tell if it's a fake just from the pictures!

Have seen it in the flesh in John Lewis, and it is very shiny .

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goldFAQinsenceandmyrrh · 18/12/2008 21:23

well the one on ebay isn't very shiny [frgin].

bran · 18/12/2008 21:33

The bag on House of Fraser has quite uneven "croc" effect bumps (to look like real croc). The one on ebay looks as though all the bumps are exactly the same size and shape which would be cheaper for a faker to produce.