Business accused of selling fake Coach purses
A Bowling Green store is one of two Missouri retailers accused of selling counterfeit handbags in a case that stretches across the nation.
BOWLING GREEN, MO. --
The Hannibal Courier Post reports that DiDi's & GiGi's Purse Strings N' Things on the Bowling Green square is named in a federal trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Coach Inc. of New York.
The store and another retail outlet in St. Louis are accused of selling counterfeit merchandise.
The lawsuit is part of a nationwide effort by Coach to strike back at the lucrative market for knock-offs of name-brand handbags and accessories.
Coach is seeking $2 million in damages and asking that defendants be ordered to pay profits made from the sales, as well as costs and attorney's fees.
Coach claims DiDi's had about 40 counterfeit handbags when a company investigator visited the store last April. The person was sold one for $64. Legitimate bags of the same type go for more than $300.
So far, more than 260 lawsuits have been filed in the case.
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