Discount Coach Wallet

Unlike Louis Vuitton, Coach is an American classic. It began as a family-run workshop in a Manhattan loft in the mid 1900's. However, Coach's classic image was getting a little stale. This article goes into details about how a new Creative Director for Coach was trying to change its image from old leather bags to a maker of hip fashion accessories.

Coach's image has definitely improved. Their wallets in particular are in demand. Their catalog of men's wallets shows a wide variety of styles (all of which have a fairly high MSRP). Some of the varieties include a $148 English bridle double billfold wallet, a $108 water buffalo double billfold wallet, and a $78 English bridle money clip card case wallet.

When there's demand and high prices, there's going to be counterfeits out there. Coach has recently made an effort against counterfeits in China. It's trying to crack down before it launches its own stores in China.

As for the US, this article claims that the counterfeit marketplace is now the online auction sites. In one example, the upscale jeweler Tiffany and Co. filed a lawsuit charging that eBay is facilitating and participating in the sales of products that violate their trademarks. Tiffany conducted their own research into eBay. In one case they purchased 186 pieces of jewelry sold as a genuine Tiffany product. They found that only 5 percent of the items were in fact, genuine.

So if you want discount Coach wallets, should you consider eBay? I've done a little investigation into some of the Coach wallet auctions. Here are some of them. All claim to be authentic.

• New Coach Wallet - Men's English Bridle Billfold Bifold. Sold after 17 bids for $44 (link)
• Men's Coach Black Wallet. Sold after 4 bids for $19.49 (link)
• Men's Coach Pebbled Leather Tri-fold wallet. Sold after 4 bids for $30 (link)
• Coach Black Pebbled Leather TriFold Wallet. Starting bid of $22.99. No bids were placed (link)

It's interesting to see the differences in the number of bids and in the prices between these auctions. The styles could be one issue. I noticed the seller that received 17 bids and sold the English Bridle Bifold for $44 had a very strong feedback history with no negatives. On the other hand, the seller of the Pebbled TriFold Wallet that didn't receive a bid, had a pretty good feedback history except for a few negatives. There were two comments in the negative feedback that were interesting: In the first, it said: "Coach wristlet not authentic.... However, was able to return with no problems". The seller countered this with "I appeciate your opinion but you fashioned no proof. My sources disagree.". The second negative feedback said "good wallet - but PLASTIC inside? Uncharacteristic for a coach product".

It should be noted that the majority of all the buyers who gave comments seemed pleased with the products they received. But there's no way to know if what they received were authentic products.