A couple of days ago, my husband brought home two jackets. He was excited that he bought two suede Italian jacket that is worth $900 each for a very good price. He said that he met two Italian men who were showing Italian designer jacket in the convention wanted to go back home and they had 6 jackets left with them that they wanted to sell them off for cheap price.
So these were nice looking brown jackets, in nice plastic cover. It says "Italian style" all over inside the jacket and there's some tag with replacement button. It has size tag, but there is nothing else. There's no tag saying where it was made in, what materials were used, nor washing instructions. It only says "EA collection". If the jacket costs $900 each, this must be some kind of known brand, so I looked online.
To my horror, the similar looking jackets were sold on eBay for $0.99 to $30.00, but then the listing says "faux leather", but ours should be real suede as the guys say, but is it? Looking further online, I found a few people posting about the scams by two Italian men who showed 6 leather jacket saying "EA Collection" telling people that these were expensive jackets but they can sell them for good price for one reason or another and they all found that these weren't leather nor made in Italy, but just some fake jacket that doesn't worth more than $30 each. Well, these people were reporting the scams happened in U.S., but looks like these guys are now in Canada. In Toronto last few days.
So I figured, that the jackets weren't real leather. They were still nicely made, but the material feels fake and it has such strong smell. They probably sprayed hard to make it smell like leather. Oh, well, it is too late.
If you encounter anyone selling you Italian leather jacket, please check if there are any labels saying where it made in or what materials are used before paying money to them. Maybe you want to buy a fake nice looking jacket, but if you do, make sure that you pay not more than its worth.
Be careful and don't be scammed!
