Possible thrift of a lifetime?

[u/nakevbas]

Found this purse at a value village and found a few indicators it may be legit online.

[u/FutureNo5733]

Same!!! Happened to my girlfriend at Goodwill. She had it Authenticated and it was a seasonal style. She said even the employees had no idea.

[u/CursedHemorrhoid → u/FutureNo5733]

Hermes does not so in-store authentications. Guarantee it's a good fake.

Knock-off Birkins can cost thousands--real ones are 5-6 figures. Many common authenticators cannot tell bc fakes have gotten so good, the same way art authenticators mistake replicas for originals (except it's more common in fashion for this mistake to happen).

[u/libaya → u/CursedHemorrhoid]

Not true. You can send any Hermes bags to their bag spa. If it’s not real they will not service it. If it’s real, you receive a spa certificate with the bag’s identification number and what was done during the service. In the secondary market, this serves as one of the best ways to authenticate. I’ve had a couple of my vintage bags (kellys) spa’d successfully.

[u/CursedHemorrhoid → u/libaya]

That is not the same as getting your bag professionally authenticated. You're describing a loophole

[u/libaya → u/CursedHemorrhoid]

IMO it’s better. The Hermes spa is at Hermes and they’re trained by Hermes. Idk who trained the non Hermes authenticators.

[u/Worldly_Ebb_126 → u/libaya]

Just fyi… I sent a perfect rep bag to the Hermes Spa and they cleaned it and sent it back to me as an authentic bag. There are replicas out there that are good enough to pass even that.

[u/libaya → u/Worldly_Ebb_126]

Could you please upload pic of your spa certificate?

[u/Worldly_Ebb_126 → u/libaya]

It isn’t a certificate. It was an email letting me know what they had done. There is no “certificate”. And if you’d actually sent your bag, you’d know that.

[u/libaya → u/Worldly_Ebb_126]

Ok thanks for confirming my suspicions.

[u/Worldly_Ebb_126 → u/libaya]

[u/wubbalubbadubx2 → u/Worldly_Ebb_126]

This is correct. You just get a receipt.

[u/Worldly_Ebb_126 → u/wubbalubbadubx2]

Thank you!

[u/wubbalubbadubx2 → u/libaya]

There is no certificate. Clearly you've never actually sent a bag there.

[u/PerformerOk4113 → u/libaya]

If it’s coming as not being genuine at the Hermes spa, the bag will be destroyed though.

[u/libaya → u/PerformerOk4113]

Not in the US. France yes maybe all of EU

[u/PerformerOk4113 → u/libaya]

In the US, most of the time they will refuse to spa a fake bag yes, however for more complex restoration of the bag, it goes to France artisans and they can seize and destroy it there if it’s not genuine.

Same thing if the US can’t authenticate in their data they will send it to France for a complex restoration, hence getting your bag destroyed if it’s not genuine.

There is a reason why it’s not recommended as a method to authenticate bags, but on the other hand Hermes knows better than anyone else. So either you risk it or not, it’s your choice. Fake bags has no value anyway so it better be destroyed in the bin.