Now this jacket had a soft, smooth luxurious feel to it and although replica moncler hat  it passed the test on all of the things to look for with a Moncler (Fiocchi snaps, Lampo zippers, tags) I was still not 100% sure I had bought a real one because I was uneducated on the subject or spotting a fake, but nonetheless I was happy with the purchase for $200.

Then I decided to get myself a Moncler jacket so I started looking around. I ran across a site called iOffer which had a lot of Moncler listings. I figured they might be fake but I saw a few photos that looked nice and I asked one seller who said he would be sending the exact same jacket as pictured so I paid about $180 for the jacket which was coming from China. When it arrived it was a big disappointment, and it was definitely NOT the same jacket that was pictured. This was another bait and switch like the first one I bought where they showed a photo of an authentic one and then sent a knock off. I immediately filed a dispute through iOffer to get my money back but I had to pay almost $40 to ship it back to China. What a rip off!

Well, over time I was still stuck on that first jacket with the fur hood that I had seen and I really wanted to get that for my girlfriend but an authentic one was $1200 and everything I saw on ebay made me suspicious of fakes so I continued to save my money. The “Albertina” was now called an “Alpes” and through persistent searching of the web I found a site called farfetch.com which sold designer clothing directly from several European boutiques and I could get the “Alpes” from them for just over $900 so I went for it. By this time Moncler had gone with the replica moncler jackets Certilogo system for identifying fakes and this jacket I bought was confirmed authentic, and it was nothing like that original fake “Albertina” I had bought off ebay. This jacket was soft and light weight, the fur trim was real quality fur, and the entire jacket looked and felt like an expensive jacket should.