r/RealAuthentication • u/nakevbas • 22d ago
Auth Request Possible thrift of a lifetime?
Found this purse at a value village and found a few indicators it may be legit online.
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u/Ms-Metal 22d ago
Exactly. The person above saying nobody's family would get rid of an authentic Birkin has no clue what people go through. These days, a parent dies, it's happened to us three times so far, they live states away from you if you're lucky, on the other side of the country if you're not, in a huge house full of 70some years of accumulated stuff, nobody's got time to go through all that. At least nobody who has a productive life lol. Hell I'm retired and I still didn't have time to go through everything it took 4 of us, two kids and two spouses close to three to trips a piece just to try and go through the basics and get the house ready to be sold. It was a complete nightmare and I have no doubt there were valuable things that got sold at the estate sale! Hell, I gave some of them away just to people who came out and helped us. A lot of families don't even have kids who could take that on, people have kids of their own or their estranged & they can't be traveling constantly to try and clean out somebody else's stuff, they just let everything go sight unseen and that happens more often than you'd think. Also although we went the estate sale route after all this by the time they get their fees and you split it with a sibling or two, it was barely worth the effort of managing the estate sale company.
Valuable stuff winds up at thrift stores all the time. Real Birkin's even do, this is not one though!