At the start of 2015, then 28-year-old commercial lawyer Miranda Gillespie was in the market for a luxury handbag.

Unprepared to pay several thousand dollars for the latest Louis Vuitton or Gucci design, she began searching for the secondhand market, only to find a mess of private groups and unscrupulous purveyors of fakes.

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