For @Carlos840's sake I hope it's genuine, but the fact that the seller has many other sizes plants a seed of doubt.
I think you’re right, the label is very suspicious, the type on the right side of the label has no breathing space it’s touching the border.
Compared to others
Report to ebay / paypal that this seller sold you fake goods and demand your money back?Yep, i was just comparing to my Vanson labels and noticed the same thing...
The leather also looks very very smooth for a vanson from that era.
Hmmmm, not sure what to do about that...
Report to ebay / paypal that this seller sold you fake goods and demand your money back?
What is weird is that the seller is also selling a bunch of these Suede ones and the label looks correct in these:
https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/p853497472
If both jackets where fake why use a correct label on one but not the other?
Yeah. If it were a fake, the ratio of effort to reward seems off here. A fake that looks this convincing would kind of imply an economy of scale for producing said fakes, and I couldn't find any documentation online of fake Vansons. Seems more likely its legit to me, just because I don't see how anybody would be making a profit in this case.Details don't mean anything at all when it comes to Vanson. They're all over the place. Check out my jacket below. 6 snaps instead of 7, installed at the worst possible places (one over decorative triangle stitching!) and yet, it's a bona fide genuine Vanson Cheyenne, confirmed by Vanson themselves.
Plus if I'm not mistaken, the tag looks exactly the same as on the Japanese Vanson.
Now that the others have mentioned it, the leather on that jacket does seem a bit off but that often was the case and besides, I don't know... Who the heck would copy a Vanson??? And why?
Yeah. If it were a fake, the ratio of effort to reward seems off here. A fake that looks this convincing would kind of imply an economy of scale for producing said fakes, and I couldn't find any documentation online of fake Vansons. Seems more likely its legit to me, just because I don't see how anybody would be making a profit in this case.
Agreed, i have been googling "fake Vanson", "conterfeit Vanson" etc and cannot find any mention of fakes vansons anywhere online.
If it was a common thing wouldn't we know more about it?
Also, why counterfeit an obscure 90s trucker and not something worth big money like the Supreme jackets?
It seems like a lot of effort for little returns...
Agreed, i have been googling "fake Vanson", "conterfeit Vanson" etc and cannot find any mention of fakes vansons anywhere online.
If it was a common thing wouldn't we know more about it?
Also, why counterfeit an obscure 90s trucker and not something worth big money like the Supreme jackets?
It seems like a lot of effort for little returns...
Someone must've returned this bad boi as it's back on sale. It's just too cool. I know you can make one yourself but there are SO many cool pins on it... If I had infinite amount of money, I'd buy it in a nano-second, just to have it exhibited on a wall as a work of art. Anyway... Pricey, I know, but nothing new you can buy will top this in the cool department.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/194075295005
Wasn't Lemmy from Motorhead buried in this jacket??????
If it's real, it'll have a serial number embossed into the leather on the inside of the jacket somewhere, and Vanson can tell you it's authentic. I don't want to throw any more fuel on this fire, but to me the photos on the seller's listing look authentic enough. But I'm no expert. It'd be a good idea for the admins to move this side conversation to a new thread and stay on topic here.