LOVE the purse forum. I started with my first LV from browsing the forum when I was 22 years old and it's been a slippery slope since then. I don't know how some women on the site afford as much luxury items as they do but I love staring at their eye candy. I've never used their free authentication system run by volunteer authenticators because I always try to buy from the boutique or use a paid authentication service. Having said that if I was in a pinch I would probably use their "authenticate this" thread. I love that if there's a brand I'm interested whether it's shoe, jewelry or bags, that I can find and read about on the forum, so that's great for someone like me that loves to research but very bad for my wallet lol.