Every woman treat her brand bag just as a lawyer treat his criminal who have to defend for him even know he is guilty. For hundreds of years, women never have stopped to be crazy to their loving bags. Do you want to buy a LV bag as almost as the price in Hongkong? Do you have tried this? Worried about buying a phony product? Now let me tell you some skills. Step one : smelling natural dedicate leather flavour is the first primary. Step two : touching when you touch it you will feel its  concave-convex texture, because the material of the LV is monogram  made from special canvas and slow-burning substance. ( while the copy is normal and slippery if touch it) At the edge of the bag's seaming position, there are hiding code on every bag, where indicate the bag's original place and date.  Since 1990, the code changed a lot, which arranged in the order of the factory name, manufacturing year and month to form a whole numbers. Different from before, position 1 and 3 in the left on this line stand for month, and position 2 and 4 stand for year. For example, MI1021 means this bag produced in Deb, 2001, France. The Englishe letter representive place of origin, France:A0.A1.A2.AA.AN.AR.AO.AS.Al.AC.BA.BU.CA.CI.CT.ET.FA.FH.FL.FR. LM.LO.MB.MI.MO.MX.NO.ND.OS.OU.RA SD. SL SN..SP.SR.TH.VI.VR.VX, ECT. USA: FH.FF.OS.SD Spain: CA( EPI etc )LM.LO.MO(M-color) Italy: BO.MA.RO.SA Swiss: TC.TO.FA.DI Germany: PO.PB.LP Note: some limit products have special codes made up of different brand, and costomed bags also have special order number. Before 1992, made in France, the F is f. And order number introduction: VI853=1985/3,VI8912=1989/12  Hoping these methods are useful for  buying LV bags.