Buyer Beware...It's George on Fleabay

[John Barton]

You can see that it is vinyl by the inside of the pocket. You can often tell things are vinyl by looking at the edges - if you see white threads then it's likely that it's vinyl.

Vinly is plastic bonded to mesh. So if you look carefully you can often find some part of the piece that shows the mesh.

A lot of sellers will misrepresent their cases unintentionally as leather because they can't tell and the manufacturer has disguised the edges well.

Sometimes the manufacturers will even sell the cases as leather fraudulently. I once threated to burn a manufacturer's case at my booth at the BCA if the distibuter did not stop advertising them as leather. The distributer and the manufacturer came to my booth later and showed me a leather case and asked if that would be alight. I said yes and then asked if they were paying the same price for the real leather cases? Got no answer on that one

Anyway, the -V on this case is pretty easy to see but most people don't know that this stands for vinyl. The seller has intentionally left off whether this case is vinyl or not most likely because he knows it is vinyl and would prefer to let the bidders assume it's leather.

 

[John Barton]

dont think its a scam. i just think he is uneducated on the products as much of the rest are. not many -v cases around. ive seen two. they were junk compaired to the leather ones. prob didnt hold up long. one i saw fell all apart with strings and stitches falling out. that was 12 yrs ago

That is because you can't sew vinyl the same way you sew leather. Vinyl often needs to be backed or prepared with other fabrics to allow it to hold the stitches. It's George just tried to sew these the same as they did with leather and all the happens is that the needle cuts the plastic and mesh and causes it to begin fraying.

 

[half fast bankr]

Def vinyl. Even if you did not see the hidden V, which had to be done intentionaly by someone, the inside view of the pocket gives it away.