BUYING AUTHENTIC 7 SEVEN FOR ALL MANKIND JEANS

The reason you're reading this is because you want to make sure you're getting the real deal before you fork over some serious cash on a pair of designer jeans, and you're right to do so. Despite okay's best efforts, it's impossible to verify each and every item that goes up for sale. However, you shouldn't have to rely entirely on okay's policing skills. If you do all the right research, you can rely on your own judgment.First, let's go over why you shouldn't buy counterfeit items. Barring all ethical reasons, you deserve better! I have seen fake Kate Spade bags get ruined in the rain because their inner structure was made out of a dense cardboard. Sure the bag was only $15, but why spend $15 on cardboard? Why even spend 15 cents?! Although that should be reason enough, don't discredit the ethical reasons. The bottom line is that selling counterfeit items is a crime, and it's a crime that supports other crimes. Not only are funds from counterfeit items funneled to organized crime accounts, they also help fund terrorist organizations. Additionally, the items are manufactured in parts of the world where labor laws are nonexistant, typically in sweatshop conditions that make Walmart look like a respectable place of business! Bottom line: DON'T BUY COUNTERFEIT ITEMS. Now for the guide itself:Many guides on okay are excellent resources for determining whether or not a pair of designer jeans is fake. The best advice out of all of them is to authenticate the cut number. If you look inside a pair of authentic Seven jeans, you'll find a line that says "Cut #" followed by a series of numbers and letters. Given that it is highly unusual for more than one pair of jeans to have the same cut number, the chances of there being replicas floating around on okay is extremely small. A responsible seller will always list the cut number in the listing, although an increasing amount of irresponsible sellers do so as well. The best way to find out if the number is legitimate is to do a search for it. Click on "Advanced Search" on the upper righthand corner of okay's homepage, enter the cut number in the search field, and make sure to check off "search title and item description." If multiple jeans show up, avoid buying all of them.There are exceptions to the cut number rule. The majority of these cut numbers were, at one time, legitimate for a certain style, but have since been hijacked by counterfeiters. The odds of you finding these very few authentic jeans is almost nill, though, so don't bid unless you have good reason to believe that they are real.ALWAYS check the seller's feedback! Even if they have 11,000,000,000 positive gements, it's the negative gements that are the most telling. I have been the victim of buying fake jeans from "power sellers", who for the most part had excellent ratings. I dismissed the negative gements as being spiteful or inaccurate, but it turns out that those gements were the most accurate because the people that left positive feedback were being scammed and simply didn't know any better. If there is ANY feedback at all disputing the authenticity of past items, proceed with caution. Also, beware of sellers who appear to be in the business of selling boatloads of the same jeans. Designer gepanies wouldn't sell their clothing wholesale to some noodlehead on okay, after all. It's far more likely that they bought the jeans wholesale for about $5 a pair from some shady operation in China, and are now ripping you off by selling them for $50 a pair. Also, make sure that the seller guarantees refunds if the jeans are found to be counterfeit. On that note, if you do notify the seller and he/she responds by saying "You should have asked if it was authentic," DON'T FALL FOR THAT. That's garbage. It is illegal and against okay's policy to sell counterfeit items. You shouldn't have to ask because the item shouldn't have been listed in the first place.In my experience, the best people to buy from are regular folks like you and me, who perhaps bought a pair of jeans in the wrong size, have outgrown their jeans, or are just doing some spring cleaning. Unless they themselves bought their jeans on okay, they will likely be authentic and the seller will be a lot more reasonable than someone who is intentionally selling fakes.If a seller claims that the jeans "run small," beware! If anything, Seven jeans run large, but generally fit true to size. Also, unless the jeans have been hemmed, the shortest inseam is typically 32". Most are 34". It sucks for us petite girls, but that's what a tailor is for. I am not going to go over the labels, washes, styles, quality, and stitching here, as there are plenty of other guides that do that. The gements above are simply sharing what I have learned from past mistakes.Having said all that, one of the best sites I have found to help determine whether or not a pair of jeans is fake can be found at www.no-fake-jeans.de.vu/The site is in German, which can be confusing, but the cut numbers that are listed are all cut numbers of fake jeans. Many of them have side-by-side geparisons with their authentic counterparts so you can see firsthand how they differ. You may not understand what is being written, but the pictures are very insightful. The site is updated regularly with new counterfeit numbers, and is an invaluable resource for anyone buying designer jeans online. They also have a separate page for authenticating Citizens of Humanity jeans.Finally, if you do gee across sellers who are selling fake jeans, be a good citizen and report them. You're not being a tattletale, a snitch, or a malicious person. You know that these operations hurt people. They hurt the buyers who are being scammed, they hurt the people who are used as slaves to produce these items, they hurt the designer's industry (and thus drive up the price), and they do have the capability of hurting society at large when the funds go towards crime.