rrrrrich

Just a heads up for people in Germany/the UK, BestSecret has a sale of Tumi with up to 45% off. There's plenty left. BestSecret is like Secret Sales and Brandalley in that it's a members only (free sign up) discount sales website - I'm only aware of it from the Amex Platinum gift voucher last year. Seems a lot of it hasn't sold out and some good bargains to be had in comparison to the duty free prices I've just compared them against.

Hope this isn't against forum posting rules but figured there'd be some interested people.

cafeamsterdam

Thanks. Seems an invite is required though to access BestSecret - anyone has an invite?

rrrrrich

Pm me and I'll send you one over.

DirtyDan

Hello,


This sounds like a really good deal and thank you for posting about it. Now I may derail things a little...

I live in BKK and see stalls of Tumi and Rimowa luggage (and Rolex watches for that matter) at the various local markets around the city. Factor in my tale about the person I met a few weeks ago that was buying LV Knockoffs to take back to America to mix in with her real bags for resale and I'm starting to look at the world as a more sinister place. (I remember hearing something about one night in Bangkok making a hard man humble...)

So this got me thinking about the large number of counterfeits I see on an almost daily basis in my city and now when I even look at the "real" stores in our upscale shops, how can I be certain even they are genuine?

Lately, there's all these online discounts and it has me wondering about the validity of all these "web specials" one sees these days. Given the anonymity of the interwebs, and the situation now has another layer of ambiguity. When you read the reviews on Amazon these days, a number of people complain about how quality has dramatically declined in recent years and I'm wondering how many of these people may have inadvertently bought a "JJ Market" special through these third party sellers (whether intentionally or not)?

Does anyone with experience with older, verified products ever run across anything that is such inferior quality it could only be counterfeit? How does one protect oneself when shopping for specials online?

Thanks,
DirtyDan

- please note: this is NOT an attack on BestSecret, but rather a general question about the global marketplace we live in these days -

Braindrain

There's really only 2 answers:

1) Buy from a LV store
2) Demand that the used bag have all original packaging and receipts

The above is true whether it's bags, watches, or whatever. While it's case-by-case, if it's someone you don't trust with #2 and something seems off, run.

whosaidjazz

Anyone else have an invite?

rrrrrich

There's another sale coming up in a couple of days. Let me know if you want an invite.

My Andersen commuter bag turned up recently and its fantastic. Got it for £167 and its £345 in Selfridges.