topic Re: Ebay Sellers in Shoes

Ebay Sellers

Tissyanne — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:36:05 GMT

Where do the Ebay sellers get all these new Dooney handbags to sell? They are sold buy it now, or best offer on some. Some have as many as 50 or more described as new, along with other brands. When one sells, one like it appears soon after. The prices are about $100.00 below retail. Anyone know?

Re: Ebay Sellers

NickNack — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:47:49 GMT

If a seller has 50 handbags they're most likely fakes.

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Krissie2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:06:12 GMT

QVC outlets.

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Tissyanne — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 01:12:43 GMT

On 3/23/2015 NickNack said:
If a seller has 50 handbags they're most likely fakes.

Maybe, but it seems a seller would have people leaving feedback to that effect.

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jaxs mom — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 02:23:13 GMT

Could be stuff from the outlet stores, they had a big sale not that long ago.

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Breamy — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:18:41 GMT

When my daughter was in college she worked retail for extra spending money. She would wait until the sales and then she was given an additional 30% off the sale price as an employee! She could purchase brand new Dooney's from the store at a fraction of the original price and then she would ebay them for a profit. This may be where several of them are coming from?

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athenian — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:13:38 GMT

I received a bag from ebay that had a printed tag that said "QVC employee store". It had a flaw (seller disclosed it), so I can see why it wasn't put out for retail.

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KJPA — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:44:38 GMT

The outlet. They are almost always 40% off the QVC Outlet price (normally that price is a few dollars below the QVC online price.)

Occasionally they run even better deals but those aren't often.

They also limit you to two D&B per customer, per day. Of course you can go in with multiple friends, etc but it would still take some doing to amass 50 of them. But it's possible, especially if you are doing it to make money and live near an outlet.

ETA - The employee store is also a possibility as noted by Athenian. I don't know what those rules are so not sure how easy it would be to collect a lot of them

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Linmo — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 04:16:58 GMT

I've been an eBay seller of Dooney and Coach bags for the past 15 years. I used to sell in mass quantity but now I only sell bags that I purchased for myself but decided not to keep. It used to be a lot easier to find inventory than it is now. Most of today's mass sellers either purchase from the QVC/Dooney outlets or from stores like Dillards who offer tremendous markdowns during their monthly or seasonal sales. The Dooney.com and ILoveDooney.com websites also had really good black Friday and cyber Monday sales this past holiday season, as well as the 12 days of Dooney that Dooney.com has every year. I purchased the $495 Tessuta woven bags from the ILoveDooney website for $149 during the last holiday sale.

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Tissyanne — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 05:18:57 GMT

Thank you to everyone for your thoughts. I did make a purchase, and received the Dooney bristol in pink today. It is gorgeous, the smooth florentine, and seems to be perfectly real. I love it.

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JavaQueen — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:17:56 GMT

On 3/25/2015 Linmo said:
I've been an eBay seller of Dooney and Coach bags for the past 15 years. I used to sell in mass quantity but now I only sell bags that I purchased for myself but decided not to keep. It used to be a lot easier to find inventory than it is now. Most of today's mass sellers either purchase from the QVC/Dooney outlets or from stores like Dillards who offer tremendous markdowns during their monthly or seasonal sales. The Dooney.com and ILoveDooney.com websites also had really good black Friday and cyber Monday sales this past holiday season, as well as the 12 days of Dooney that Dooney.com has every year. I purchased the $495 Tessuta woven bags from the ILoveDooney website for $149 during the last holiday sale.

I was like you. It was easier. A lot of things happened to change the landscape. At one I think I owned over 50 bags and most made their way to the Bay.

Have to laugh at the "fake Dooney" question. About 10 years ago, they had their signature bags which were very popular with young girls. Some of those were fake. I don't think that is a problem with Dooney bags. The counterfeiters couldn't reproduce the big sacs cheaply (the ones that looked like a Gucci horsebit bag.) I know this, because there was a site where people would look for them and they would try to "order one." I don't remember the name of it. I had stumbled across it while searching for another seller site to supplement ebay. (this predated craigslist.) At the time Coach was a really huge thing. I have never seen a fake Florentine bag or a cheap knockoff of one. They can't easily do the shape in vinyl and probably Dooneys are readily available through other venues for reasonable prices.

Tissyanne, I am glad that you had such a positive experience on ebay. That's very good to hear. Not all sellers are bad! Enjoy your new bag.

Coach was a different story. Now the big fake bag is an MK.