help with Levi's authenticity

[darknworn]

Please help me out with these jeans, they look awesome...but w/ questionable authenticity.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=91241&item=8182408891

Thanks, and please do not bid against me .

[coolhunter]

judging by his feedback comments where several people say his jeans are fakes, I would not buy from him.

...no, im not serious about the name...

[hahnstch]

yea, dont you see the fake yen and evisu he sold?

[darknworn]

thanks. i'll probably stay away from this guy unless someone w/ really good levi's knowledge convince me otherwise.

[darknworn]

come to think of it, this guy's items are really good fakes (if they in fact are). his levi's reds and others seem to be selvage and well constructed. why bother making these and selling them for 50+% off ebay if his costs are high? i'm confused! anybody w/ thorough japanese denim want to clarify this?

[beezen]

selvedge is too expensive to make it worth faking

[Serge d Nimes]

regardless of the price of selvage denim, thaere are still a lot of fakes that use it.

I'm not illiterate, I just can't type!

[M4TM]

any legitimate/reputable denim ebay sellers?

or should I just avoid ebay for denim altogether?

strange highs and strange lows

[hahnstch]

there's always legitimate sellers on ebay. i remember this ebay shop that usually stocks diesel at a slightly lower price than market, but again i'm not a big fan of diesel. a handful of sellers from europe (uk, germany and this guy from france) do have good range of levi's red and repro. not sure about evisu stockists on ebay though. well, worst come to worst, just stick to ebay golden rule, if it's too good to be true, it probably is

[Serge d Nimes]

I am going to list like 15 pairs of rare jeans later this week. My handle is rebel_denim. I don't really like to spam the forum, so I will leave it at that.

Cheers, Joel

I'm not illiterate, I just can't type!

[hahnstch]

serge, you should hold some private auctions for some of us man hahaha

[shinobi2000]

darknworn,

how can you tell that this guy has good fakes? from the picture? It is very possible that for his *pictures* he is using a real one but the actual jeans he sends out are completely bad fakes. If you look at a lot of these people's auctions, they keep repeating the same pics they get from somewhere else.

[shinobi2000]

serge, DEFINITELY have a private auction for us!!!! :-)

[darknworn]

thanks everybody for your opinions. even fake, it seemed like a good deal just for the novelty factor. regardless, i didn't buy.