Leonie Hourigan paid more than $2000 for two Louis Vuitton bags at the auction of fake ''Tahitian prince'' Joel Morehu-Barlow and has alleged the items are imitations. Picture: Megan Slade Source: The Courier-Mail
A WOMAN who paid more than $2000 for two Louis Vuitton bags at the auction of fake "Tahitian prince" Joel Morehu-Barlow has alleged the items are imitations.
Leonie Hourigan, of Mooloolaba, said she is preparing to lodge an application with the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal after questioning the authenticity of a Louis Vuitton document case and graphite canvas soft suitcase she bought for $2380.
Louis Vuitton Brisbane stated it does not offer an authentication service, however she approached collector and authenticator Paul Pluta, of collectinglouisvuitton.com, who inspected the bags for a fee and concluded they were not genuine.
However, auction house Leonard Joel is standing by the catalogue description and the authenticity of the items it puts up for auction.
Ms Hourigan said she thought she had nabbed "premium products with a good story" when she won the lots during the frenzied bidding at Antique and Fine Art Auctions at Woolloongabba on March 10.
GALLERY: Fake prince auction in Brisbane
The auction sold Morehu-Barlow's estate to recoup some of the $15 million he conned from Queensland Health. He is serving a 14-year jail sentence.
When Ms Hourigan's bags arrived, she was suspicious about the authenticity. "When I touched them, I knew in my head that it wasn't right," she said.
Mr Pluta said he believed the Louis Vuitton soft suitcase was not genuine because the handle end trim was incorrect, the interior had the wrong pattern and layout and the metalware was wrong.
He said the Louis Vuitton document case was also a "poor fake".
'These particular items are bad, bad, bad fakes," he said.
But in a written statement, John Albrecht, managing director for Leonard Joel, said all items put up for auction were inspected by specialists.
"We attended to this particular purchaser's query when raised with us for the first time, being four days after the auction and advised them that we were confident with our description but that we were happy and willing to investigate the purchaser's claim," he said.
"In the event that we discover that an item has been mis-described, we would as a normal course of our business offer a refund of the full purchase price."
He said Leonard Joel had been unable to obtain a third party opinion so far as the bags were in Ms Hourigan's possession.
According to the website of the Office of Fair Trading Queensland, consumer guarantees do not cover goods bought at auctions, where "the auctioneer acts as an agent for the owner of the goods", and said that it is the responsibility of the buyer to check the standard of the goods.
JAILED: Joel Morehu-Barlow
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