• How do I care for my handbag after purchase?
• Which Payment Methods do you accept?
• Do you give refunds on handbags?
• How do I pay by check or mail?
• How do I change the products that I ordered?
• Will I be notified when my package ships?
• How long will it take my order to ship?
• How can I suggest a product for you to carry?
• I own a boutique, gallery or retail shop. Do you have wholesale prices?
• Still have questions??
• Disclaimer!!

How do I care for my handbag after purchase? TOP

^{10 Tips for Bag Care}

^{Follow or at least consider these tips when you use your handbag.  Your priority is to keep your bag looking good and stain free, yet to enjoy using it.}

1. ^{Look after your bag and store it in its dust bag cover or use a natural fibre soft pillowslip.}

2. ^{Handle your bag, especially lighter bags with clean hands.}

3. ^{Avoid handling the designer bag after applying beauty products, face foundations or hand creams.} 

4. ^{If the weather is really bad and raining consider using a less special handbag.} 

5. ^{Be careful when you visit a hairdressers with your bag, as hair products can easily splash onto handbags left on the floor at your feet.  Clippings of chemically treated hair can land on the bag and leave marks.}

6. ^{When carrying a light colored bag consider using pencils rather than Biros - biro can be difficult to remove.  Don't use your bag as a rest to place paper and write notes.  Pointed pens can leave impression tool marks through paper rested on firm leathers.}

7. ^{If your bag has a chain handle, store the chain inside the bag to avoid scratching the outside leather when the bag is resting.}

8. ^{For storage, use bubble wrap to stuff your bags as it does not attract moths in the same way as tissue paper does.}

9. ^{If you are doing a big weekly shop then unless you are planning to impress a prospective Mr Right, avoid taking your special bag to the supermarket!  Trolleys can scratch your bag and mark it permanently, as can spillages from foodstuffs such as yogurts, cream, dips, squashy fruit, milk and even leaking cleaning products.}

10. ^{For long term storage, undo strap buckles so that impressions are not created.  Then if you wish to wear the strap across the body messenger style and need maximum strap length or need to shorten it to wear underarm style at a later date, this unbuckling of the straps before storage will stop areas becoming impressed and unattractive.}

^{Bag Liners}

^{If you constantly change handbags consider buying a handbag liner made especially for the job.  Purpose made handbag liners such as these shown right enable you to change your handbag contents quickly moving everything in one go.  You can shift essential items such as keys and mobile phone in one smooth operation.  This is a good way to tackle contents if your designer bag has a special lining that you wish to protect from make up and other lotions. Each range is in several colours.} 

^{Bag liners can be especially useful when on holiday.  The version of a special holiday bag liner, is designed to enable ease of access to extra items such as sun lotions.  Since the original banasoup.com site that gave me these images is no longer online I suggest you search Google for VIP hand bag liners. You will quickly find a bag website selling them at around $22 and $25.}

^{There cannot be a woman who has not had a spillage of some kind in her handbag in her lifetime.  I used to have a spillage of some type small or large and ruinous about once a year.  I have become more careful in the past decade as it just became annoying.   Now I have got into the routine of using small easy view make up style bags within my bags to compartmentalise my must have items.  I have to say I do have my eye on one or two of these bag liners above as they do look perfect for the job.}

^{However, don't be obsessive with your designer bag.  It cost you a lot of hard earned money so use your bag and enjoy it.  If it cost you $400 and you use it everyday for a year that is good value compared to buying a special event dress that costs $400 that you wear no more than once or twice.}

^{Water Damage}

^{If you carry mineral water such as Evian, make sure the top is screwed tightly after you have had a sip.  Leaks can leave water marks.  I had about 300 ml of Evian leak out into my Floto bag last year, annoyingly it left a watermark to half way.  Despite finding the problem quickly and wiping the residue out of the bag with tissues, the residual water continued to gradually seep up the bag leather by capillary action.  I left the Floto bag to dry naturally for 2 days as I didn't know what else to do.}

^{Once dry I was hugely disappointed.  The watermark ridged mountain like darker stain was very noticeable.  So having nothing to lose I dunked the whole bag for a few minutes in a bath of lukewarm water rubbing the water into the bag with my hands.  Then I drained it dry on an oven rack over a sink.  I stuffed it with kitchen roll paper and let it dry naturally.  When dry I must say it seemed to have evened out the stain ridge and I was able to use the bag again although it did take a couple of weeks use to soften up again.  The inside striped fabric was a little wrinkled, but was not awful.  The bag does look acceptable again and suits the careworn distressed look it develops with time, but frankly I preferred it pristine new.}

^{My point is that the bag looked much better before the accident.  I now make sure the bottle cap is secure on any container stored in my bag and in every other bag!} 

^{Bags in Transit}

^{If you need to send your bag anywhere do make sure it is well packed and the box has padding around the bag.  Put dangling metal logos or charms inside the bag or cover them with bubble wrap.  Chain handles should be padded and if possible also placed into the body of the inner bag to prevent scratching the bag outer material.}

^{Bag Insurance}

^{You may wish to consider bag insurance.  Most household policies only cover goods to a small specific limit.  Therefore check with your insurer that the handbag and its contents are covered by your policy.  This may mean adding a small extra premium to cover bag Insurance.  Specialist item extra insurance may be costly.  Whether or not you take up insurance is your business, but be aware of the monetary factors.}

^{Consider these facts - The average designer handbag may be worth anything from $300 to $1500.  Even if your bag cost $50 it will probably be filled with items of value such as cash, cards, keys, leather gloves and make up.  A few lipsticks, gloss, a mascara, face foundation, shadow, blusher, pencils, brushes, perfume etc., at just $10 a go on average your bag contents will soon add up to $100 - $200.}

^{These days we also have technology in our bags.  I'm not even thinking of a laptop here in a business brief bag, but just everyday techie items we now take for granted and cart with us everywhere.}

^{Add in a mobile phone, a digital camera and perhaps an iPod, a Blackberry device, emergency hair straighteners and other personal items like a costly 3 month season ticket.  To this add some harder to replace items in terms of time, inconvenience and sentiment - $300+ spectacles (needing half a day to sort out a replacement), plus a couple of pieces jewelery, perhaps just a spare gold necklace and earrings to revamp to evening looks and you will see that your bag if stolen is quite a loss.}

^{Bag Safety}

^{So look after your bag at all times.  For safety on a day to day basis, always choose a bag with a full zip closure and inner zip pockets so random thieves cannot rifle through it in a moment.  Open bags are easier to lose items from as well as attracting pickpockets.  How often have you seen someone with their bag a gaping?  If you noticed it then so will an an unscrupulous chance thief.   Probably often enough to know that care is not just about keeping your bag clean, but also preventing others from stealing it.} 

^{If your bag has short handles hold the bag in the crook of your arm or by fully gripping the handles.  Avoid carrying any bag by the finger tips so if someone tries to tug at it, you can at least attempt to whack them one with the bag, than let it slip away from your fingertips.  If you are out and about in what you know to be a less safe area and your bag has a shoulder strap version, consider wearing the bag across the body, messenger style.  You can hold it at the front of the body where you can keep a real eye on it.} 

^{Think I'm over cautious - not really.  I left my bag on a train one morning 30 years ago. I still recall the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach at losing my nice new black patent bag as I knew it contained valuable and sentimental items.  By the end of the day that bag, found by the guard, was returned to the station lost property.  The purse had been rifled of money even of pennies, with everything else left in the handbag.} 

^{So if you lose your bag in a hotel or restaurant, or similar place, always tell the staff immediately. Your bag may be lying around in another part of the building with just cash and the most desirable valuables (cash and credit card) removed, but the bag may be intact and still have the items that are valuable to you.  These days chances are you'll need to cancel your credit cards and maybe change locks at home, but you will have the bag itself back.  Alert anyone at your home that the bag was in someone else's hands so they can take safety precautions.}

^{Authentic Genuine Bags}

^{In fact I soon noticed that genuine and authentic were two of the most overused words online.  If a bag is authentic would you need to be told that.  The words authentic and genuine are almost the kiss of death to some auctions and many websites.  Very few online retailers are approved to be able to sell genuine designer handbags.} 

Which Payment Methods do you accept? TOP
Once you submit your order and adress information you will automatically be taken to paypal to submit your payments. In paypal they give you options to add credit cards to your paypal account if need be. The page that you get to after you are taken to paypal will have our name and your order in fo. there. Just fill out the form and you are done!!

Do you give refunds on handbags? TOP

How do I pay by check or mail? TOP
Please contact us and we will help you with that but our prefered form of payment is through secured paypal!

How do I change the products that I ordered? TOP
You simply go to "View Cart" on the lefthand side navigation if you ordered the wrong product or wish to delete a product!!

Will I be notified when my package ships? TOP
Yes, we will send an email to you as soon as your order ships and if there are any problems with the process we will contact you a.s.a.p.!

How long will it take my order to ship? TOP
Approximately 1 to 2 weeks depending on the size of your order and the availabilty of the item at the time of purchase!

How can I suggest a product for you to carry? TOP
We love hearing from you..If there is something you would like to see in our store let us know and we will try to get it for you!

I own a boutique, gallery or retail shop. Do you have wholesale prices? TOP
We already have our bags marked down to just about wholesale prices!  We also intend to ship you your purchases free of charge!

Still have questions?? TOP
No problem! We are here for you...so use our contact us page to send us a quick email and we will get back to you a.s.a.p.

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