I care too.

"Replica" is not the correct word. I have a ring I got in Florence which is a "replica" of a two thousand year old etruscan ring found in an excavation (new etruscan rings being unavailable, this is all you can get).

What you are looking for is a "knock off" or a "fake" depending on how cheap it is.

I don't get it - but it's your money. But "replica" connotes that it is the same quality - just from another source. Not possible.

nytraveler, while you may be correct according to Merriam-Webster, the fact is that those "knock-off" and "fake" bags are commonly referred to as "replica designer" bags, and I assume that everybody who's buying them knows what they're talking about.

People can call them whatever they want - it doesn't make it so.

A "replica" bag would have to have the same materials, the same quality workmanship and the identical design. What you're talking about doesn't have amy of those. At best it is an imitation. But most qualify just as fakes.

So...nytraveler...after the OP clarified/ defined what she's looking for...you think that matches your definition of a "replica" bag?

nytraveler, thanks for setting me straight. I get spam emails for "replica Rolex watches" all the time. They sell for a tiny fraction of what the real ones sell for. It's now nice to know that they actually are the "same materials, the same quality workmanship, and the identical design." All this time I thought they were fakes or knock-offs, not actual "replicas" matching your description! Maybe I should buy some after all!

No - what I'm saying is that those are not "replicas". They are just fakes. Replica is a false label for them.

The ads are as fake as the watches - or whatever

Popularly accepted definition....
Ann Marie

Ok. So people who sell fake bags use false advertising to sell them. Who would have ever suspected that?

leanonsLees, why don't you crawl in one of those handbags and disappear? You came here and registered for the single purpose of advertising your illegal goods -- on four different posts?