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10 Questions you should ask before buying leather bags online

You have surely been through the busiest days when one of your most regular websites suddenly pops up with a new brand you have never noticed before! You are going to explore for sure, but as one among them is gently getting your attention, slipping through your spine and passes right through your heart to the bottom of your stomach, there! You have already made the purchase, only to end up disappointed with either the quality or their services.

To be honest, leather is something you are craving to ‘feel’ on your fingers and when that doesn’t happen, the most obvious outcome is a bad buy! So, here we are going to make it very easy and helpful for you to make an instant purchase next time and also equip you with all information that you need to check with every time you think of buying through a not-so-common online store.

The ten things you need to ask before you buy a leather piece online:

1. Brand or Product Authenticity

With new brands cropping up every day, it is very difficult to restrain yourself from trying new ones, with each focusing on certain exclusive features, competitive rates and cheaper discounts. So in case you come across a brand online, that you have never heard of, the best thing you do before you fall into a trap is to check with the brand itself. You may search more information about the brand owner, the company authenticity, its location from its very own website. Nowadays, you will find various brands with no website, or official address and no brand registration. These are mostly traders who taking maximum benefit of the network expanse, create an online presence of their own. So once experience

2. Product Range and Features

The next thing you check out is the complete range of products they offer. When we talk of the product range, we mean you may have good variable choices in every price range. Sellers nowadays generalize the product rate into a similar range, but in case of leather, a range may amply vary due to the leather type or quality and the prices vary accordingly. When we come to features, authentic sellers online will acquaint you with every minute detail of the product with large zoomed in images at every angle. So in case you just find a small pixelated photograph and no particular image or details of the interior, the accessories or even about the leather quality and maintenance, beware! You might have landed onto a fake website.

3. Price validation

In case you are a frequent leather buyer, price is at your fingertips. But in case you are not, you may check with various brands, and the leather types that largely determine your bag prices. Although it’s very difficult to differentiate between genuine leather or a fake leather at just an online image view of the product, unless you check with the grains, the stretch, the patina by physically touching the product, a complete knowledge will help you a lot in taking a closer look at the product and validating the product yourself. A faux leather is fake leather which will resemble a leather in an exact way you want your purse to look like and may only cost you half of your old leather bag, whereas a full grain leather

may just look dull and old, but might be one of the most genuine exclusive pieces, and thus will cost you a gem.

4. Return Policy

This is something really important in case you are planning to buy leather online. There are different concerns that get registered on different forums every day, which complain that the products delivered are totally different from the one displayed or are paid for. Even you might the same product, the hidden stitches, the accessories or even the leather quality might be of concern to you once you are holding the product, and you might just want your money back. So before you make a buy from any of the unknown stores online, you should be thorough with their disclaimer, their delivery schedule and return policies in detail.

5. Customer Satisfaction Rate

Most of the startups nowadays are being popular because they maintain a strict transparency positioning reviews of all customers on their pages. This plays a dual role of informing customers about the popularity of the products by directly providing the ratings and also giving real time updates about goods received, quality of goods, packaging details and at times images of received goods. Highly popular sellers pages have higher number of ratings and an increasing traffic. Products where you find no rating or no reviews at all should better be avoided.

6.Helpdesk details

Authentic sellers don’t miss an opportunity to offer their customers the most convenient way to reach out to them for different feedbacks, queries or concerns. So if your seller values you as a customer, it will leave you a way to trace them when you are in need. So if you want to avoid the hassles of being shuffled between desks and inboxes and calls, we suggest you make a note of the helpdesk or customer service numbers .

7. Mode of payment

When it comes to buying online, this is the most sensitive step. Feeding and leaving out traces of your transaction details might be a new hack for any fraud store online. Also if you don’t want a ride on your hard-earned wallet, you may prefer cash-on-delivery for your chosen product. International shipments are often time-consuming. So in case you don’t want to spend a month waiting and speculating where your shipment might be selling across, you better don’t lock your cash in the idea. Paying at the time of delivery will just give you some relaxation on the financial aspect.

8.Packaging

Packaging is very important for any product you buy online. Although, leather is considered to withstand the toughest wear and tear, but the hard-handling that your product endures throughout the supply chain will enjoy some shock resistance with quality packaging. Good sellers will always be careful and concerned about the packaging they provide to their customers, and often spend a lot to offer attractive 

packaging. So this should be a part of your checklist when you begin to choose an online partner for your leather items.

9.Legal Terms

What if you never get the products you ordered? What if the money you paid just got deducted and the order still not accepted? What if your ordered amount is large enough to make you run after the seller for ages. So, along with disclaimer and the website policies, the legal term if any, indicated in the channel should also be clear. Many of the sellers also upload unauthorised items and carry no license, which official would be an illegal transaction. So under all the circumstances, reading about the terms and conditions will save you from a lot of hassles.

10. Turn-around time

This is the easiest way to check the service quality of the sellers. In case you are wondering about any after-sales credibility, you may perform a pre-sales check by sending an enquiry or lodging a casual complaint on their website. If you find a strong team following up with your case, or get an immediate call to resolve your concern, you may be relieved to some extent so as to make your buy with confidence.

WHO MAKES THE BEST MEN’S LEATHER BAGS?

Forget the days when men used to complain women of having bags in abundance, running no space in their closets. Since then, the world is just upside down, and when it comes to leather, men do fascinate the most.

Leather contributes a lot in enhancing the sartorial tastes of a man, but the question arises, what makes a leather bag worth a man and his blinded faith in it! Men who are fond of leather bags carry a vast knowledge on the taste and experience of using the perfectly perfect stowing agent and swerving it according to style, sceneries, vehicles they top, and company they choose. If you are new in the kingdom, and would like to make a journey towards the throne, we will get you there in the next five minutes !

Beginning with the very basic, your leather depends on which animal it comes from, which area of the hide is taken , how thick the layers of the hide is, and also how much tanning it has gone through. So let’s see what comprise the top 6 criteria for these men to have trusted a brand like us for years now.

Of Course, the leather itself-

You may go for a messenger bag, a backpack, a laptop bag, a wallet or a duffle, depending on your purpose you may choose the skin, and trust me each animal skin looks entirely different from the other.

Coming to animal skin, we may first begin with small leather goods like your wallet, your key ring, your lighter or cigar case, which will require soft skin and are usually made from cow, goat or sheep skin. Next comes Medium Leather which comprise your laptop case, or your Notebook cover, or may be a small briefcase, classy and exquisite at the same time. Here you might like to go for medium skin of cow, calf, goat or sheep. Heavy leather goods like a luggage bag, or may be your gym carrier, or a casual duffle will require heavy cow and buffalo skin. Other very brawny pieces you can pick anytime would be crocodile skin, ostrich skin or deer skin.

And now, the leather kind-

Real Leather is all about imperfection. One that tops the list is Full Grain, coming from the top layer of the skin. Your animal may have gone through a lot of hardships all its life and each scar, mark or bite will be clearly visible on the skin. Genuine lovers of leather will pick this kind at one single go, also for another reason. It will age gracefully with its owner. With time, full grain leather deepens its blemishes and imperfection through a soft sheen at some place, darkening at the other, while a honey glaze at the other parts. This is called a patina, which like real wood is a symbol of weathering and aging through a real process.  A surface treated chrome-dyed leather will hardly ever develop anything like a patina. You can also see a beautiful patina on a pull-up leather surface

Next comes the Top Grain Leather. This is the most used and preferred leather by many, since as it is, it looks perfect too. The top grain imperfections of organic skin are removed and smoothed through 

sanding and buffing, so it may weaken the skin a bit or may lose that natural character, but at the end you are getting something which looks entirely uniform and perfect.

Suede Leather. You have probably come across this term to understand more of velvet, how it plays a role in leather? Nowadays, with increasing brand awareness and call for a style statement, designers prefer using the underside of the skin to get that flossy, down-covered feel on your wallet and shoes.

Next in your checklist is the Bonded Leather or Faux Leather. This is a much cheaper version of a real leather product. The leftovers and scrap remains after production are combined with polyurethane at particular ratios to create a weaker leather backing and a more-leather-imitating plastic film on top which tends to peel off just within few days of usage.  However, if you don’t mind taking a chance and your wallet is running low, this can fill your bucket temporarily.

Pull up or Distressed Leather is something of which you might have heard less, but in case you like to experiment with a broad spectrum of look and feel in what you hold, then you surely will choose this department. Leather is paraffin and wax treated to give the leather, more vivid or matte looks, with more variations, and signs of stretching, folding, aging and a clear patina developing on top with time.

And a major factor, The Tanning

This is again something you need to know and understand at your best.

Depending on your leather type and purpose, you will perhaps want to decide how your leather is tanned. Chrome tanning is the shorter, quicker way which often takes only a day and offers you something a lot cheaper. Limed to remove the hair, and ‘pickled’ in chromium sulfate or acid salts or even other chemicals used at times, this is not so environment friendly and can often smell of chemicals.

 

Whereas, Vegetable Tanning takes upto 60 days, is hand-crafted and highly labor intensive process that is 100% pure organic, can be recycled and develops a beautiful patina your friends will admire. This kind of tanning uses the natural tannins like Tarapods, Gallnuts, Oak woods etc. in powder or liquid form. They are first rehydared for a couple of days, then cut into smaller hides and soaked in these natural liquor for longer period after which they are dried by drawing out excess moisture. They are dyed and hot stuffed with rich colors.

 

WHAT YOU WILL FIND AT OUR STORE

The difference.

While most online stores offer a complete range with customers often perplexed between value, price, quality and some among the ‘mixed-bag’ products, we believe in showing you the difference. We have successfully made rich original leather highly affordable and reachable to all our customers without cutting off on your other costs, or compromising the quality even by less than a percent.

Now what you do with a 100% genuine leather, that cost you a fortune and you aren’t able to carry it along because people complain that it stinks. So here, after 3-4 times of usage you are left with no other 

options but to scrap it altogether. We bring you a perfectly tanned leather that you may trust blindfolded and may continue with for years.

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