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@kittys_boutique wrote:

https://www.vestiairecollective.com/members/profile-20698584.shtml

 

For reference, everything sold overseas on Vestiaire is checked by their expert authenticators in person and an Expert seller must have sold in volume over the past six months without a single item ever having been rejected on authentication concerns.  The volume in our case was 40 items there in six months.  It is the same stock as our eBay catalog.  So what accounts for this discrepancy?  I'm throwing up my hands in despair.  Of course, I don't expect any help from you lot.

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I don't know that we can account for the discrepancy.

I don't believe you are trying to pass off fakes, I can understand you'd be astounded if you have a lot of stock that has passed expert authenticators at Vestiaire without a problem then all of a sudden it is being rejected by the ebay authenticators. I believe that you believe the items to be genuine.

Is it definitely the same stock, delivered in the same batch?

People here are not racists. It isn't racist (in my mind) to say that certain countries such as China are more inclined to manufacture a lot of 'fake' products. From what I can gather, it is not illegal there. I was in China in 2018 and our guide, who was Chinese, even warned us about it. Just as it isn't racist to say certain races or groups have a higher percentage of this or that. For instance, (to use an example that doesn't cause upset) I think the highest % of redheads are in Scotland or of Scottish heritage. That's not racist to say that, it is just a fact. It becomes racist only if you reject someone or something only on the basis of race.

People here aren't doubting the bags because they dislike the Chinese, but because the odds of getting a fake item from China or Hong Kong is higher. We can't go around pretending all areas, all countries and all companies are equal because they are not.

It doesn't mean all bags coming out of HK are necessarily fakes but it probably would put a lot of people on the alert, if that makes sense.

If I were you, knowing that your bags are having trouble with Australian ebay authenticators, I'd be inclined to do what you mentioned and maybe market them somewhere other than Australia or even on another site other than ebay, where you can use the Vestiaire authenticators.

I just don't think that anyone here is going to be able to give you any advice on how to overcome the ebay system & as far as I know, ebay itself doesn't listen much to suggestions, so you're probably just banging your head against a brick wall there.

It may change in time, it depends on who is working there at the ebay authentication centre. Is it possible to ask for details as to why any particular bag failed the test? I've not got high hopes you'll get anywhere, getting a straight answer from ebay is like pulling teeth.