BB inside label authenticity query

[mack11211]

Dear Folks:

Recently I sold this Brooks Brothers top coat on ebay.



When the buyer received it, he said that it had no label and that the sale was fraudulent.

I noted that although the larger label at the back of the neck was no longer there, the smaller label from the inside pocket (listing picture included above) has S BROS on it, which on this narrow label, was part of BROOKS BROS.



To support this, I included pictures from a Brooks Brothers sack I was also selling:



In response, he accused me of perpetrating a fraud not on one garment, but two.

Many of you wear Brooks Brothers coats, so I ask you, have you ever seen this inside label with BROOKS BROS on your own coats? If you saw it, would you consider it a mark of authenticity?

 

[texas_jack]

I think some people do this when they get something they don't actually want. They make up an excuse to send it back. And yes, that's a brooks bros tag. I have a couple jackets with that tag. Besides, does he actually think someone would fake Brooks bros? dumb.

 

[antirabbit]

Who would fake BB stuff?

 

[rebel222]

Originally Posted by antirabbit

Who would fake BB stuff?

Apparently Mack does.

 

[texas_jack]

Originally Posted by rebel222

Apparently Mack does.

lol

 

[Ataturk]

Maybe he doesn't like the jacket and is concerned that he won't be able to sell it, because he can't prove that it's Brooks Brothers. I think it's a legitimate concern.

 

[rebel222]

Originally Posted by Ataturk

Maybe he doesn't like the jacket and is concerned that he won't be able to sell it, because he can't prove that it's Brooks Brothers. I think it's a legitimate concern.

That's not a reason to claim that it's fake.

 

[texas_jack]

Originally Posted by rebel222

That's not a reason to claim that it's fake.

exactly. I've had people make outlandish claims in the past and it's always an excuse to send it back because they didn't want it.

 

[mack11211]

Originally Posted by Ataturk

Maybe he doesn't like the jacket and is concerned that he won't be able to sell it, because he can't prove that it's Brooks Brothers. I think it's a legitimate concern.

When the buyer last communicated with me, he wanted to keep the coat. But he still said it was not authentic BB.

 

[Nicola]

Sounds like he is trying to squeeze a discount out of you.

 

[Dewey]

Selling this as Brooks Brothers might be like selling Daffy's Incotex, with the cut-out tags, as regular Incotex.

Some might think that the mutilated and/or missing tags indicate the product was sold at discount because it's a second or a defective product. And some would regard the missing tags as a defect, too.

The idea that you would fake the Brooks Brothersness of the coat is silly, but there might be something to bitching about the missing tags, if the fact of the tags was not disclosed in the listing.

 

[JoeWoah]

Those are legit BB's. There stuff has been manufactured in so many different places over the years it's impossible to ID all the labels correctly. Then, figure in the many separate lines, MTM line, designer collections, etc... forget about it!

 

[Nataku]

Point him to this thread and he should soon come to his senses that nobody would fake Brooks Bros.