Help me please about my bag!! ASAP!! urgent!!

angelthelson · #1 (**permalink**) 04-25-2007, 01:40 PM

my sis gave me a zara bag it has buckled front pockets, the bag is made of leather and has chains for shoulder straps. the problem is, whenever i go inside a store that has a very sensitive sensor it doesn't go off/sense it, but if go out, it goes off/senses it and it's embarrasing!! what causes this? some stores doesn't sense it but some stores does. help me please! and i've gotten alot of compliments using this bag

elaine130 · #2 (**permalink**) 04-26-2007, 12:16 AM

look way into the bag - maybe in the inside pocket or the lining or somewhere... perhaps there was a security device? also if there's a tag, you might have to cut off a part of it. i know that's where banana republic places their sensors - on the tag that either says the brand or the washing instructions. otherwise, call zara! good luck... i agree that would be very annoying and embarrassing for me, too!

kitsch_k · #3 (**permalink**) 04-26-2007, 05:43 AM

wat a hassle!!! hmm..i have no idea how to help you though...i mean that has happened to me (like i buy something then i bring it to another store it turns out the sensor there is more sensitive so it pick ups my purchase's tags... so it rings the alarm!!) but once i go home and clean my things up like remove the tags and everything it's fine...try to look for any more zara tags...

angelthelson · #4 (**permalink**) 04-26-2007, 09:33 AM

thanks elaine and kitsch =) and elaine, i took off all the tags... hope that'll work, but ill ask my sissy where she bought that bag so i can call zara..

britjojo · #5 (**permalink**) 04-26-2007, 09:49 AM

I agree that you have to have a security device of some sort in there, an RFID or something. Perhaps if it happens at a store where the staff are nice you can try and figure it out-if its a quiet day. Maybe they can help you search and remove things. Just a thought.

angelthelson · #6 (**permalink**) 04-26-2007, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by britjojo

I agree that you have to have a security device of some sort in there, an RFID or something. Perhaps if it happens at a store where the staff are nice you can try and figure it out-if its a quiet day. Maybe they can help you search and remove things. Just a thought.

oh yes! i went to my local meijers grocery and the sensors went off after i got out of the grocery then this lady approached me and complimented on how great loooking the bag is and then she asked if i want to de-magnetized the device in my bag ( which i have no idea if there is or what it is) and she tried to use a sensing device and it bleeped on one of the pockets. then she said that she turned off/killled the device/sensor that's in my bag and when i got out, the sensors beeped again!!! she just laughed and said " next time you're here, i know that it's your bag"

EMMY · #7 (**permalink**) 04-27-2007, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by britjojo

I agree that you have to have a security device of some sort in there, an RFID or something. Perhaps if it happens at a store where the staff are nice you can try and figure it out-if its a quiet day. Maybe they can help you search and remove things. Just a thought.

^Great idea!!
That would freak me out..I wonder what could be causing it if their is no magnetic device in the bag....???

elaine130 · #8 (**permalink**) 04-27-2007, 12:12 PM

angel - like you said before - definitely ask your sister for the name of the store where she purchased this bag from. then call the store (or she can do it) and ask them where the security device is! better yet, if that store is in a nearby mall, then go there : ) i never knew that there was a security device on the cloth tag on my banana republic clothes - but i guess they deactivate it upon purchase. when i brought home the clothes, the cloth tag says "cut here" so you can remove the security device embedded in the cloth tag.

angelthelson · #9 (**permalink**) 04-30-2007, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by elaine130

angel - like you said before - definitely ask your sister for the name of the store where she purchased this bag from. then call the store (or she can do it) and ask them where the security device is! better yet, if that store is in a nearby mall, then go there : ) i never knew that there was a security device on the cloth tag on my banana republic clothes - but i guess they deactivate it upon purchase. when i brought home the clothes, the cloth tag says "cut here" so you can remove the security device embedded in the cloth tag.

i asked her and called sta monica zara and the girl told me that their security thing is on the price tags. she doesn't have any idea why it is happening. oh well anyway, i'll just bring it over to other store that has a de-magnetizing plate. thanks for all the help ladies!!!!

EMMY · #10 (**permalink**) 04-30-2007, 08:36 AM

OMG!! I sit 'hidden'??..It must be..I've never heard of that before...Geez..waaay to technical for me..

britjojo · #11 (**permalink**) 04-30-2007, 09:32 AM

The only other thing I can think is that you have some kind of way funky magnet in the closures of the bag. Did you inspect the pocket that made it beep yourself? Did you notice anything at all that might look suspect?

Louis Vuitton · #12 (**permalink**) 04-30-2007, 05:27 PM

I hope you get this figured out!

angelthelson · #13 (**permalink**) 05-01-2007, 09:44 AM

brit, i did inspect the pocket that beeped and yes i has magnetic enclosure but i guess there is something really funky in that bag!! i can't figure out what coz i have checked everything!

etali · #14 (**permalink**) 05-04-2007, 03:48 PM

I had a problem like this with a pin badge that was constantly setting off alarms. It turned out that the badge was really really strongly magnetised, so it's probably just the magnets doing it. I'm not sure if there's anything you can do about that without damaging the bag

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