Cartier YG Pave Love Bracelet -- Authentic or not?

[Nuts4Cartier]

Hello,
I'm looking at a Cartier bracelet on auction. I noticed that for the serial number, the letters are not separated from the numbers (image attached) . Is this a red flag?
I did a Google image search and the letters are usually separated from the numbers. Any opinions on the authenticity would be greatly appreciated
Thank you!

 

[tkyasx78]

99.999999%of these are fake. This is probably a fake too.
There are so many fakes out there cartier doesnt even offer authentication anymore. -seriously -they dont even bother.
If you want a real one, buy it from the store. Anyone who had a real one could sell them on any real website for almost new prices, they will not ebay it for a grand starting and highest bidder goes.

Buying one at an auction is a great way to pay a lot of money for a 10 - 50$ replica.

There are a lot of nice fakes out there. Dont waste your money if you are looking for real.

 

[Nuts4Cartier]

Good point. It's like looking for buried treasure. The seller has like 30,000 positive feedbacks on high-end watches and jewelry and has a brick and mortar store. So, thought I would check into it. It's priced at a quarter of retail.

 

[Bron357]

The one benefit with ebay is that you can get it tested for gold once you get it and return it for full refund if it’s not gold.
What I’m saying here is if you like the style and pay only a “gold price” then there’s no harm in taking a chance. Without full proper paperwork you can’t be sure it is real “Cartier” so you only want to pay a gold value price.
But obviously for real Cartier, expect to buy full price from Cartier or a small discount second hand if it comes with all paperwork and boxes.

 

[Nuts4Cartier]

The one benefit with ebay is that you can get it tested for gold once you get it and return it for full refund if it’s not gold.
What I’m saying here is if you like the style and pay only a “gold price” then there’s no harm in taking a chance. Without full proper paperwork you can’t be sure it is real “Cartier” so you only want to pay a gold value price.
But obviously for real Cartier, expect to buy full price from Cartier or a small discount second hand if it comes with all paperwork and boxes.

That's a good way of looking at it --- although I'm not sure I would keep it if it wasn't a real Cartier. Can you tell if there is something obviously off with what I've posted?

 

[tkyasx78]

Good point Bron. Getting it tested for gold content may guarantee it is or is not 18k,but they do make replicas of the more expensive ones in 18k and so it wont guarantee it is a 40k bracelet. You can pick up an 18k replica for under 6.

The love line of bracelets have been so popular for so long you can get all kinds of replicas too. It is like the vca stuff, unscruplous makers in countries that dont care about copyright laws will push out a 40k item for 4-6k becuase they can turn a profit. That unauthentic material can look pretty convincing.
Since the seller has a lot of feed back , ask for the purchase reciept and verify the purchase if you want the real deal. When someone spends 40k on something, they usually keep the original of EVERYTHING.

 

[Nuts4Cartier]

I've taken pieces I have bought in auction to the Cartiér store and asked for a cleaning and they look up the serial number. For other bracelets I bought, they hadn't been so I've returned them. Now the replicas are getting so good and they use Cartier serial numbers so that strategy may not work.