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[thesiren]

at least your rope looks durable and thick like auth bal, not wimpy like that fake charbon. really your ame handles look OK to me...the maldives is questionable, but i wouldn't run from it. that's just me!

 

[cloudyblue]

my ame's handles are too skinny, skinnier than that pic irl.. the other one is actually VD from previous batch (just scored Work RH VD from fabulous friend). the handles on my maldives city are actually quite ok. oh well, it's really great that t&d has perfect handles now.
anyone else who got bags from latest batch VD and Black, don't mind to share pictures of the bales? thx

 

[bonne]

i've been checking out the chatter about Koodos.. and just thought they looked like fang's new batch of SGH / GGH Bals on taobao. has anyone seen them? it looked perfect to me, too good to be true! dipped bales, perfect handles, leather, colour, etc.

I was going to say this same exact thing. These look similar to Fang's bags. And I was so surprised when I looked at her site recently and saw that her bales are PERFECT and the details look GOOD! Bales are better than NBF in my opinion. Wonder if anyone is going to take the plunge...

 

[chicadee]

sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but in no way are T&D's latest bales 'perfect'. very far from auth (if that means 'perfect') IMO. fang's are much better by far.

pic by me of bales from latest batch of black velo and black first.

 

[seahorseinstripe]

wow this thread becomes interesting, i'm curious about the difference between T&D and fang's now.
i mean i can see all the pics on fang's listing, every bits of the details but honestly i never seen detailed pics from T&D.

 

[uiggu]

Slow Teaser Reveal Omg!

HEY GUYS so my VdE turned up yesterday and I had to spend the whole day carting the package around all over Tokyo (I had it sent to a friend following my customs issues) before getting home and realizing I was too exhausted to really enjoy opening the package, so after purposefully making myself wait another night in order to UP THE EXCITEMENT, I've decided to do a TPF-style 'reveal'* so that you can all feel a bit like I did this morning! Get your popcorn-eating emoticons at the ready! ;

YELLOW ENVELOPE OF JOYYYY

See, this is what you don't get when buying auths - the sense of living on the edge. 'Will my bag actually be halfway out of the package by the time it gets to me or won't it? How many postal workers' hands have caressed this corner of leather?'

Having literally ripped the plastic off with my bare hands, what can we see peeking cheekily out of the oh-so-secure tissue wrapping? ... Oh wait, the giant marker writing kind of spoils the surprise. DON'T READ UPSIDE DOWN, GUYS!!!11

... Okay, I got too excited here and kind of ... maniacally tore the bag free of its tissue prison, thus ruining the possibility of a teasingly slow multi-post TPF style reveal... Sorry !! So let's just head on to BAG NUMBER TWO!

Tissue lump, what could you be?

Ohohoho, is that some hardware I see before me?

PREPARE YOURSELVES... FOR FABULOUSNESS

!!!!! THE LEATHER IT IS DIVINE !!!!!! <- first time I actually agree with T&D's (over-)use of the word 'divine'

Oh God the colours!!

TA-DAA! Not the best photo (Day looks discoloured, but it's just the light), but you get the gist. Just to clarify: RH Day VdE (my first Day and I love it! It's so much smaller than I imagined!) and City GGH VdE. Also, just to confirm that wow, the GH really makes a difference in weight - the Day is the first large bag I've bought in RH and it's amazingly light! My shoulder thanks you, RH!

Can I just put my 2 yen in here and say imo THIS IS THE BEST LEATHER T&D HAS EVER DONE. It is so so soft and so smooth - it really is beautiful. It's far far better than any real Bal I've ever touched (and I've touched them on three continents so far) and as you can see the colour is TDF. If anyone's on the fence, just GET SOMETHING in this leather or you'll regret it forevahhhh!

I'm considering getting a First too, but would that just be overkill...? Three VdE bags? Anyone?

I'm so glad I got both GGH and RH in this colour because they both just look so amazing in different ways.

PS: How things looked when the frenzy of materialism had abated.

* Disclaimer: God those reveals are stupid!

 

[helens]

* Disclaimer: God those reveals are stupid!

hahaha I am tempted to agree. So many photos and then only one shot of the bag. Come on guys! Give me modelling shots ;D Kind of like those fashion blogs that put up 10 wallpaper size photos of the same outfit with slight pose differences. there's a reason magazine shoots don't look like that..

LOVE those bags uiggu. I'm glad they got to you this time, even if they had to take a detour. And I'm sorely tempted to get an evelope clutch with GGH now -.-

 

[carta]

uiggu, love your reveal. (i feel the same way about the tpf reveals. how many pictures of boxes in various stages of opening do we really need to see?) the leather on those bags are awesome. congrats on a safe customs trip. i am so tempted to order one except i'm not sure how that color will fit in my wardrobe. clearly, i need to be more imaginative!

 

[shelleybean]

uiggu:
Your reveal:
Me reading your reveal:
Isn't the Day fab? I feel the same; sooo much smaller than I thought as well. I'd for sure get another one.
For those of you worried about Vert D'eau "fitting" in with your lifestyle/wardrobe? Fuggetabouddit! Vert D'eau is it's own entity, like it's own food group kinda thing. Goes with anything.
I still owe you pics of my Twiggy and maybe some mod shots for reference. I'll get that together in the next couple of days.

 

[PinkPrincess113]

Crystal has bought a magenta city from Fang and I think it looks good but she was complaining about the smell for those of you wondering about Fang's bags. There should be some pics somewhere in these threads.. not too far back.

 

[seahorseinstripe]

uiggu the leather is so yummy, can u post pic of the hardware and bales? the VD does looks best with GGH, too bad bal will stop GGH production on other colours

 

[cornpops]

great reveal uiggu....so happy that they found their way home to mama-san ; and I thoroughly enjoyed the great suspense filled reveal, it gave me my fix for the morning....I'm one of the ones that are not completely sold on the VD, I really really really want to love it....but I'm too scared that I'll ruin it with color transfer from my clothing.....I'm having second thoughts about galet or sorbet now too, what I would really LOVE is a run of something light neutral like Seigle or Praline even....I just love Seigle, it looks to have a personality on its own, I've seen some that look pinkish/beige....and some look more taupe. But if I'm worried about color transfer from VD, I must be crazy lusting after something that is so much lighter than even VD!! But I think I would just learn to live with it since its such a versatile wearable color....that I would love so much I think we nbf fans know that even with their new "updates" to their handles, o-rings, GGH they are still far from perfect....interestingly their listings say that the bags are "accurate to the original styling and details..." if something as simple as serial numbers and bales are not correct on all of the nbf bags how can they say that the bags are accurate to the original styling and details? And some of my earlier nbf's certainly do "scream fake!" as the front panel is way off (just one of the red flags)....I know they've since corrected such details as this, but they are certainly still not "accurate" to the auth's... I actually had no idea that the serial numbers were incorrect....when I addressed the issue of my serial numbers being incorrect in the past (I think my first two or three bags...I was shocked when I realized that they were incorrect) they made it seem like it was just an isolated incident, and it was a simple mistake that would likely not happen again (I know....an isolated incident would not have happened over and over, right? What can I say....I'm a sucker, yes I am....but more than that, I just wanted to believe girls.).....am I to understand that ALL of the nbf bags have incorrect SN ? I know that there are alot of nbf fans on this thread, as am I....I think they're great for the price, and for that price it would be immoral to complain about detailing, right? Well, yes and no....I just think it would be nice to know these things in advance, because perhaps if the boys had told me up front that the details were certainly not perfect, that there were major discrepancies when comparing to auth...and that even their serial numbers were not correct, but that in reality I would not get a better Bal rep for this price range....I wonder if I would have been so quick to jump on the nbf bandwagon , but certainly I would have thought twice about alot of the bags that I rushed into buying for fear of a sell-out, if I had known that there were that many discrepancies....at the very least I would have taken into consideration other sellers like B&S and even Joy has some that look great. Just a thought.....but like I said (before anybody leads an attack against me....relax, nobody's bashing anybody here...just thinking out loud ), I love the nbf's too and for the price you can't beat it....yes, the leather is awesome....and they do a great job at making gorgeous rep's while keeping the price AWESOME, and that's probably why I keep buying them....if they were charging the same prices as B&S I wouldn't have bought half the bags that I have, but they don't....so cheers to T&D!

 

[Chupi]

Chicadee: ITA, I was really disappointed with the bales on the first T&D I bought, I couldn't believe they were so off! It's a shame because otherwise the bags are so beautiful and their customer service is outstanding

Uiggu: Post of the year! Thank you, that was the most amusing post I've read in ages and the best reveal!

 

[shopaholic48]

Maybe I kind of jumped into conclusion that the RH Cities from Koodos are better. My reason was that tpf ladies could already recognize NBF bags (earlier batches, not sure about the most recent batches though), and yet these Koodos bags passed until the weird paper tags were exposed. And of course I'm not comparing prices here. Lets say nbf and koodos RH Cities are the same price, I think I will pick Koodos' because i find they have better bales and other correct details

I think you're probably right that they were all fake.... Bal denied selling to or being affiliated with Koodos.... I'm curious though, what makes you think the RH Citys from Koodos are better than NBF's? NBFs have been authenticated there too and I think it would happen much more often it this thread didn't exist. A lot of the people who authenticate on tpf only know how to spot an NBF because of the info from this thread. I think this is a good thing because I too am disturbed and disgusted when reps are sold as auth...and T&D don't do correct serial numbers for a reason! They don't want their bags sold as auth either (which is why the whole idea of "correcting the serial numbers" is so absurd ). I'm just wondering what exactly you think is better about the Citys from Koodos? Even if they are better though, I can't complain....those women were paying over $1000 for fakes... I'm happy to pay 1/4 of that!

 

[shopaholic48]

I think they have already proven to be fake, Koodos sent out emails saying that they went to Balenciaga factory in Milan, clarified about the 'substandard batch' and was told that Bal made bags out of both lambskin and 'deerskin'. And Koodos happen to receive the 'deerskin' batch made for 'Asian market' which actually prefer deerskin than lambskin!! What a load of BS thankfully those who asked for a refund got it. Im feeling for those who dont read TPF and are walking around happily with their bag

no one saying they will pay 1k (or whatever koodos is charging) for those "fake". of course our nbf is great, for around 200, you can get an amazing bal rep from NBF. so dont bring the price in here.
i still dont believe those bags are fake (like cloudyblue). though that specific bag was posted above has bad leather, just like some other bad real bals out there. BUT, have to agree, myself, think those are darn good to be reps.

 

[DernierCri]

uiggu: Gorgeous bags - congrats! I'm just drooling at the sight of them both.

coco109: Love the bag! I'm looking to buy a hobo, so the Alexa hobo is definitely in the running - how do you like her so far?

I also really want to get a Day, but the selection on the NBF site is limited. Probably a silly question, but do I have to email the boys to ask what they have available? I've yet to order from T&D, but after reading these threads for so long, maybe it's time!

 

[diormouse]

uiggu, your "reveal"... I can't stand reveals on TPF... it's one of the many things that turned me off from that board. Seriously, I don't need 10 pictures of tissue paper, just show me the f***ing bag already!

Your bags look amazing! I think Maldives is probably a better colour for me, and I know that I don't need Maldives and VD, but I'm tempted anyway...

Also, as a side note, I see on TPF all the time that authentic Bals are worth the price shock because they hold their value so well. Granted, they might do better than some other labels, but I've been slowly selling off most of my authentic bags, and that is not what I've found at all. I can resell an NBF for pretty close to what I paid for it, but I've found that authentic RH Bals are only getting back half or so of their original retail value... That in and of itself is reason enough for me to go to NBF from now on!

 

[Chupi]

News on Galet:

Hi Chupi,
The City bags leave tomorrow.
Hugs
T&D

Whoop whoop! Now fingers crossed they arrive here by Wednesday

 

[seahorseinstripe]

anyone can pm me fang's web? thanks

 

[lovelovemode]

Calling all CITY owners!! does the leather part of your strap measure 18"? i could have sworn it was supposed to be 24"... i would really appreciate any replies.

i'm pretty sure T&D sent me the wrong straps, but this is what they said:

Hi Vivian,
I have checked the straps on the City and the leather part is meant to be 18”.
If you include the hardware then it’s the correct length.

so either i'm wrong or they're trying to avoid sending me replacements...

18" for the strap + 3" for bale and hook on each end = 24"

thank you amethyst_sparkle and cornpops

i measured the leather part of my strap, it is precisely 18.25" as opposed to cornpops' 19.5"

amethyst_sparkle, i understand what you were saying about 18+3+3, but i'm not sure how to account for the fact that cornpops' strap is 19.5" versus my 18.25"?

if one or two more people could weigh in on the length of their City strap, i will have enough info to show T&D. i would really appreciate it

hey vivian, I just measured my framboise city and the strap (leather part only) is exactly 19.5"....with the hardware from end to end it is exactly 24"; I then measured my sang city and the measurements are the same....hope that helps

Hi Vivian, here is an auth Blue Roi RGGH City strap.
Leather part only: 20.2"
Hardware: 2.5"x2
With the hardware from end to end it's exactly 25.2".
IDK if there is any differences between RH & GH strap though.
HTH
(pic credit: me )