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September 9th, 2009


Wholesale handbags come in every color, size or material (cloth, leather, nylon, microfiber, suede, quilted, plastic) that a fashion accessories reseller can stock. Many styles push the product category “handbag” to its edges . . . tote, carry-all, duffle, gym bag, book bag.

Search a wide assortment of handbag wholesalers – from designer collections to off-price liquidation lots – at WholesaleU or Top Ten Wholesale . Or Off Price Network .

Now, where do you find unique handbag designs? What if you need to stock handbags shaped like megaphones, footballs or licensed school jerseys this fall? I thought there was something awfully Fashion Designer about an artistic sugar cookie I found in a gift basket; I’m sure I saw it in a Vera Bradley collection. Keep reading: Top Ten Wholesale and WholesaleU found unique handbags, from sports locker to fashionista chic.

College Handbags is the #1 Licensed Collegiate Handbag Manufacturer. It’s official . . . here are their seal and logo:

Licensed Collegiate Products seal

Licensed Collegiate Products seal

Collegiate Licensed Product logo

Collegiate Licensed Product logo

Search for Handbags By College Logo and Colors

· By Athletic Conference (ACC Atlantic, ACC Coastal, Big 12 North, Big 12 South, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Other School, PAC 10, SEC East, SEC West) OR

· By Collection from an Alphabetical School Drop-Down List. OR

· By entering a handbag / school name keyword into the Quick Search Box

You’ll find Handbags … Totes … Wallets … Cell Phone Holders… Checkbook Covers … Clutch Bags … Denim, Cloth, Quilted Handbags … Men’s Wallets. All customized with collegiate insignia and in school colors. Stretch the concept of “handbag” to cover large totes and styles that mimic duffle or gym bags.


Samples from Boston College Eagles, Clemson Tigers, North Carolina Wolfpack and Wake Forest Demon Deacons.

New Line: Football Jersey Handbags
Specialty handbags cut to look like sports team number jerseys . . .


Alabama Jersey Bag . . . Appalachian State Jersey . . . Duke Jersey in School Colors.

Plus a Duke Quilted Handbag. Guess which is the Texas Quilted Bag. (Black, gold and longhorn?)

Suit Up, Sports Fans

Alabama Megaphone Shoulder-strap Handbag, embroidered with school logo.


Or Football Handbags.

College Handbags will customize specialty handbags with their designs or yours, such as team logo or school mascot. (Custom Order Minimum is 120 of same style.) And they offer drop shipping to resellers.

Here’s How To Brand a Designer Handbag, Sugar.

I read about a small specialty company whose annual sales increases earned it a spot on Inc. Magazine’s list of 5,000 Fastest Growing Companies in the country. And they made the list with lots of butter and shortbread cookies that are hand-decorated for holidays, special occasions (wedding, birthday, graduation), special event displays and gift baskets. Oh, and branding campaigns.

Logo cookies?

You betcha. That cookie bouquet you bought online – the one with race car shortbread cookies for your nephew and edible tulips or gerbera daisies on Mother’s Day – probably came from Corso’s.

But you’ve never heard of them because Corso’s cookie creations don’t show in local stores. Most of its sales are online, and 90 percent of those online sales come from third-party sites (resellers).

Like Vera Bradley Designer Handbags, where Vera stretches the “handbag concept” from a Jet Set Nylon Duffel Tote in the color of wine to backpacks, laptop cases and even diaper bags.

Vera Bradley Bags

Vera Bradley Bags

Corso’s “icing artists” and fast-growing specialty sugar cookie business is now doing a tie-in to brand handbag designer Vera Bradley. Cookie designs will exactly mimic the colorful designs and textures of Vera Bradley bags. Delicious handbag branding!

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September 3rd, 2009

I don’t like doing this but I feel like part of my job duties are to help protect the community.  There are so many scam artists out there so it is my job to help point them out.  Publishers and buyers beware of this company.  I Have worked for JP Communications Inc  for about 5 years now and I have handled the online advertising for thousands of clients. Not once have I ever dealt with a situation or a customer like Chris from Dow Superstore Inc., aka www.dowsuperstore.com. This company illegally and fraudulently paid us for advertising using a pay pal account. I want to warn other media outlets and buyers about this company. Pay Pal told us that we should should press criminal charges, so we are. In the mean time, if you are allowing this company to advertise or if you are buying from them, beware because they are scam artists.

Dow Superstore paid JP Communications Inc for advertising through pay pal. Pay pall released the funds into our account and we processed the funds to Dow’s account. We gave Dow Superstore Inc. $1,000 in pay per click funds and we started designing an email for them which cost $800. Services were given to Dow.

A few days later, Pay Pal took money out of our account telling us that Dow was a fraud company and that they did not have any funds in their account.

On July 9, 2009, Dow emailed my company and told me that he sent us $1800 for advertising on Top Ten Wholesale and for our company to design and send an email. Pay Pal cleared the funds and we added $1,000 to his pay per click account and spent hours designing and testing out the email he paid $800 for. 2-3 days later, Pay Pal took the $1800 out of our account and said that the payment Dow sent us was a fraudulent payment. I contacted Dow, and Chris told me it was an error. He then told me that he would have the funds to us shortly and never paid. On August 21st, 2009, Chris told me that he would send us a check for the advertising seeing as that he already used the funds up. Dow never sent the check and he owes JP Communications $1800 for PPC funds spent and time spent on designing, coding, and testing email.

I have had multiple conversations with Chris Dow and one conversation with Jimmy. They both pretended that it was an error and that they would have the funds back to me. On August 21, 2009, I called Chris Dow from www.dowsuperstore.com and he finally picked up the phone. He told me that he would send me a check for $1,000 to start making good on his bill. I was at trade shows most of the month of August and returned on Sept. 2. Dow Superstore did not send the check. It does not take more than 5 business days for a check to get mailed.

If anyone is interested in learning more, I have saved all our email contact so I can prove to you that the owners and others staff members at Dow Superstore Inc. are liars and scam artisits. Here are just some of the email conversations between Chris Dow and myself:

I will call you monday afternoon.

On 8/14/09, Jonathan wrote:

Hello Chris. Please call me and let me know how you plan on settling

your balance. It has now been close to a month.

Thanks you.

—–Original Message—–

From: Chris Dow [mailto:dowsuperstore@gmail.com]

Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:01 AM

To: Jonathan

Subject: Re: Chris:

Yes. We are doing alright just these issues with paypal put a damper

on our success. We have things in place and we will be clearing the

invoice soon. I will keep you posted

On 8/4/09, Jonathan wrote:

Tell me about it. The funds are coming out of my commission for being

a nice guy and putting a push on the order so I’m hoping we can get

the funds in asap. This is why we don’t like dealing with pay pal and

prefer cc or check.

What else is going on? How’s business? How long has Dow been around for?

You mainly an internet business or is this new for you?

—– Original Message —–

From: Chris Dow

To: Jonathan

Sent: Tue Aug 04 18:52:27 2009

Subject: Re: Chris

No not yet we will know more this week. I will keep you updated. What

a mess paypal caused us.

On 8/4/09, Jonathan wrote:

HI Chris,

Any word from pay pal yet or have you received your amex payment yet?

—–Original Message—–

From: Chris Dow [mailto:dowsuperstore@gmail.com]

Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:04 AM

To: Jonathan

Subject: Re: Chris

I’m going to see when I get those funds from pp or ill pay it when I

get my merchant amex payment.

On 7/29/09, Jonathan wrote:

Thanks Chris. Let me know how we are going to work this out asap

so I can tell my COO.

In short, publisher, buyers and sellers beware. If he is willing to scam a service provider that helps bring his company business, I can only imagine what he is willing to do to people that buy from him. If anyone has any questions about this company, feel free to contact me.

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