u/CONSTANTVlGlLANCE

Hey repfam. Reddit buyer newbie here.

TL; DR - I swear this bag I just got is the ‘deep hickory’ color and my TS is gaslighting me. Someone please help! I would love to be wrong!!! Details below:

So, I only started buying reps off Reddit in the last year, so this experience has been kind of interesting for me. I’ve been buying reps from HK through a friend for almost 10 years, so I honestly kind of thought I was smarter than this.

I just received a bag from BF 🏭 small LL in Rouge Cabernet. I have seen so many great Black Frame posts on here that I am starting to think I might be the problem.

When it arrived, the color looked off. It looks exactly like the Deep Hickory colorway instead. Kind of purple, kind of brown. The maddening part is that the PSPs looked exactly like the correct color way, and I was fairly obsessive about going over them.

I reached out to my TS to figure it out, because they’ve been patient and polite. But…They’re telling me that the color isn’t that bad and 1:1 doesn’t exist. Well, to me, the bag is almost identical to auth aside from this ‘small hiccup’. I cannot shake the feeling that this bag is actually Deep Hickory and my TS is just trying to cover a mistake. They sent me BF’s Lou Lou album again and…the photos don’t match what I have in hand.

TS offered to refund me if I ship the bag back to them, or $20 off plus a $10 credit for my next purchase.

My TS is also saying that if I re-order the "same" color I will receive the same bag. The bag isn’t the problem, I think it’s amazing. So, I took it into a physical y$l store today and compared them side by side, but they didn’t have the hickory in store to be able to show me. I did fudge the truth a bit and say I’d gotten it online and felt it may be a rep so they let me take these photos.

Am I being too picky here, or is this a mix-up? I'm hoping someone who has this color can tell me what they think. I am getting the feeling that red/burgundy is hard to rep and it feels like the y$l Cabernet differs between purses, so maybe BF just has one standard ‘Cabernet’ color. And, no, I really don’t think reps should be expected to be perfect, but this color feels too off for such a good factory.

Send help if you can 🫠

Hi, I received this as an ‘heirloom’ and it was heavily tarnished and seems vintage, though I use that word with hesitance. It’s stamped as Tiffany & Co., .925 Sterling, and came in authentic Tiffany & Co. box and packaging. No luck on finding which collection, after hours of online searching. Claude seems to think it’s Gehry, Picasso, or Peretti collection.