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 davidsmom
 
posted on April 18, 2004 08:26:18 AM new
Are items marked 925 PLATA manufactured in Chili sterling silver or silverplate? I would sure appreciate any input on this. Many Thanks!
 
 fenix03
 
posted on April 18, 2004 09:03:58 AM new
Plata is spanish for silver so 925 Plata would indicate sterling ( gold is Oro BTW )
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
 
 davidsmom
 
posted on April 18, 2004 09:33:07 AM new
Thanks so much, that is a great help!

 
 OhMsLucy
 
posted on April 18, 2004 10:10:04 AM new
This is sorta kinda related to this thread.

Found something interesting this morning. In a bunch of jewelry I have is a little charm. It says God Loves You and is stamped Tiffany & Co, Sterling, on the back.

Gee, funniest thing... When I look at it through a loupe there's base metal showing through. It's also magnetic.

So it pays to check silver stuff with a magnet. I've found other faux pieces that way.

Lucy

 
 stopwhining
 
posted on April 18, 2004 10:42:11 AM new
so it cant be made by tiffany??or the tiffany we know of??
us customs sometimes seize jewelry ,ivory etc and find out they are not 925 silver,not all gold and not ivory.
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 OhMsLucy
 
posted on April 18, 2004 11:07:36 AM new
Stop,

I don't believe Tiffany & Co. would make anything marked Sterling if it were not. This is the first time I ever heard of fake Tiffany.

Lucy

 
 bigpeepa
 
posted on April 18, 2004 11:26:48 AM new
lucy, last week I had a guy trying to sell me 2 small bronze Indians marked Tiffany & Co. They were as fake as a 3 dollar bill. In todays life people reproduce and or fake almost anything.
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 fluffythewondercat
 
posted on April 18, 2004 11:41:49 AM new
Geez, just mosey on over to iOffer. Tiffany fakes abound there.

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 fenix03
 
posted on April 18, 2004 11:48:22 AM new
Lucy - do a search of Tiffany on ebay. Probably 90% of what you will find is fake unless of course you believe that people sell brand now Tiffany pieces in he box at 25-30% of retail. Some of the stuff is so brazen it's boggling. the Return to Tiffany Oval tag necklace is a hugely popular item and on ebay, the bracelet is too. Unfortunately, Tiffany does not make the bracelet. There are quite a few other examples of this where the fake manufacturers in Hong Kong have adapted a single design across the board when Tiffany did not.


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 stopwhining
 
posted on April 18, 2004 01:21:49 PM new
how do they stop a thai or hk maker stamping tiffany company??hey,there may just be one called tiffany in bangkok or taiwan.
i learned from a german woman in frankfurt who sells used designer clothes and once in awhile she has a few pieces of channel jewelry(used).she said there is a korean company which makes fake channel jewelry.i would not be surprised as some of the new artdeco hair jewelry come out of korea looks pretty good.
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Benjamin Franklin
 
 fenix03
 
posted on April 18, 2004 02:12:23 PM new
Yes stop - There is a Tiffany & Co in Hong Kong, And a Warner Bros Studios and a 20th Century Fox and a Dreamworks SGK, and Vuitton, and...... or it could just be that these areas have thriving black market manufacturing businesses.

They are "replicas" (although there are more than a few times they are not replicating anything actually made) and they can tell you anything they want but come on. Why would Tiffany or Vuitton or Channel or any other designer authorize subpar manufacturing of their products thus diminishing the value of their corporate brand or allow anyone who wanted them to be able to purchase their products "wholesale" for pennies on the dollar?

One of the biggest contentions our government has right now with these nations is trying to get them to start enforcing customs laws and crack down on the pirated material.
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 OhMsLucy
 
posted on April 18, 2004 03:17:03 PM new
You know, I really didn't know Tiffany was faked.

I sold a Tiffany baby cup a while back. Did get a few emails about it. It ended at a nice price so I guess my pictures and explanations were good.

Lucy

 
 stopwhining
 
posted on April 18, 2004 04:31:33 PM new
i have been getting emails lately to ask me to visit a website where they make replica rolex and other name brand watches,is that legal??
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Benjamin Franklin
 
 fenix03
 
posted on April 18, 2004 05:23:36 PM new
What do you mena is it legit?" Are you asking if there are really sites that sell fake Rolexes? Of course, some even sell boxes and registration papers on them as well.

If you are asking if that particular site is legit that is a harder call. Many are schemes- you send the money, they send you nothing in return. They hide behind the basic understanding that the law will not assist you in regaining funds intended intended to purchase illegal goods.

The most amusing fakes out there right now in my opinion though are fake Nikes using Burberry, Gucci, LV etc fabrics.... Here's a pair from Sell....



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 glassgrl
 
posted on April 18, 2004 05:47:45 PM new
oh those are cute shoes!

didn't anybody see 20/20 or Primetime a few weeks ago when they were doing the faux Callaway golf clubs? They are impossible to tell from the originals unless they cut them apart.

they interviewed the people manufacturing this stuff overseas and they just laughed at the interviewer. They basically said that if we were so cheap that we contracted this stuff out to them that within 24 hours they had the design and were putting it out on the streets themselves by copying it.

my DH loves to buy golf clubs and resell them. I will not buy any Callaway's anymore just because of this. He even had a relative that used to buy this stuff overseas, not for resell, but just because it was so cheap and everybody thought he was playing with a $$ set of Callaway Golf clubs and his wife could carry all the latest Vuitton bags.


 
 stopwhining
 
posted on April 18, 2004 07:28:02 PM new
i was at costco one day and one guy is selling designer handbags,i asked him if they were genuine ,he said sure,but somehow when they are just laid out on a cardtable with no proper lighting,no tablecloth and no carpet on the ground,they just look suspicious.does costco care?/they have to pay costco to sell inside costco??
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 buyhigh
 
posted on April 18, 2004 10:26:44 PM new
Not all Tiffany replicas are substandard. I once had a perfect copy of a sterling Tiffany suitcase pill box - Only thing was that it was marked Tiffany and Co. AND Made in the Phillipines right under that. Suuposedly that was the giveaway that it was not a genuine Tiffany product.
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