As one of our commenters astutely pointed out, Michael Tonello and Donna Lehtonen have long ragged on PFers for daring to authenticate bags from photos. Cannot be done, they opined. Nada, nyet, non. And yet, since he started his hate blogs, Michael Tonello has been picking and choosing, by photo, which bags are authentic and which are not. And Donna Lehtonen has taken up residence at another blog happily pontificating about which bags are authentic. From photos. In fact, that was her specialty on PF. Well, not much of one, actually, since everything she looked at was fake, fake, fake.
Amazingly, there are professional authentication services for all kinds of things - not just handbags - that do just that: authenticate from photographcs. It is not new, nor is it radical.
But of course, it fits into Michael Tonello's plan for harassing people at PF. Though near as we can tell, Donna is just brainless and clueless. (Maybe that should be the name of their little detective agency.)
We also love the insistence by their followers (hello again, Donna!)that posters reveal in full glory whatever their collections may be. Otherwise, according to their rather dubious logic, they are lying about owning these things. We guess it's a twist on the old "if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it happen" theory, only it goes like this: if someone I don't know buys a bag I can't see because they won't post it for the world to judge, then it did not happen! The illogic is stunning.
And of course, this leads to another question: why is it their business? The answer: it isn't. So while they accuse posters on PF of being jealous and liars, once again, they're just projecting their own qualities on others.
33 comments:
"We also love the insistence by their followers (hello again, Donna!)that posters reveal in full glory whatever their collections may be. Otherwise, according to their rather dubious logic, they are lying about owning these things. We guess it's a twist on the old "if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it happen" theory, only it goes like this: if someone I don't know buys a bag I can't see because they won't post it for the world to judge, then it did not happen! The illogic is stunning."
Because she is a jealous woman. She can't fathom that there are far richer people than herself. So she taunts people to show and prove themselves. But let me tell you one thing for sure. If any one such person falls into her trap and posts pictures of her collection, she would be back swiftly to diss them for being materialistic, and shallow and whatever horrible names she would call them. Sic.
To all the lovely tpf ladies with vast bag collections, don't be harassed and dragged into their shit. You did your reveals for the fun factor. And you'd enjoyed yourselves in the process. We know you weren't showing off. We know you did it in the "sharing" HANDBAG forum. Who would have thought a sickening duo would stalk and make fun of people they don't know. So don't let them spoil your fun.
PFA Comment from Aug. 17 Blog Post: Admin said... One of our friend's bought this bag. Upon receiving the bag she brought it to her local Hermes store and as it turns out, the bag is a fake. She sent us this photo and the information regarding having it authenticated.
August 21, 2011 8:36 AM
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Sorry Michael, er um "Admin" (LOL) your story doesn't ring true. First of all if this person was a friend of yours surely she reads your blog and would see that you have been posting for weeks about this seller. And if she knows you and is a friend she probably thinks you are an expert (LOL) so why would she spend $15,000 without getting your opinion. And we all know that Hermes stores don't authenticate, so unless there is a craftsman at her store (and only a few stores have them) and she asked to have her initials put on the bag, they would not be any help regarding authentication. Frankly, I think your story is major BS.
^^We were just about the write the same thing. That comment is pretty darn funny - and totally unbelievable. Like everything else on PFA. The true fake on PFA is Michael Tonello.
^I have to say, I completely agree with the above two posts. The minute I read the post by 'admin' I knew it was BS. When are people going to realise, that his blog and claims are nothing more than his paranoid delusions, and HE is the biggest fake and bullshitter? Took me a while to realise, then came to my senses!!!
"Most of us here on this blog 'have a life'. I have a career, unlike most tpfers, that spend their husband's money on fakes all day, so they can impress the neighbors with their phoniness.
So they say, that they have a life. A lousy, worthless one. Cheap. Horrible. Made out of malice and insults. Nothing good done to your karma, ya? There is good life and there is bad life. We know what you have.
What makes you so sure they are fakes? Isn't the idea being beaten to death, that authentication can't be made through pictures? Surely, you aren't going back on your words, your insistence that it can't be done?
Many ladies on tpf are career women. And many others chose not to work or can afford not to work, or retired. So you seem to have an issue with that ~ Women supported by their husbands! If you had done more good deeds in your life and are a really nice person, your life would be more blessed. Go, try it. Even if you start being good, you may have a chance to redeem yourself before you age.
Only low lives feel the need to go out there to impress. I guess you totally understand why that's done.
Michael's pathetic imagination never ends. Random photo. Total lie of a story. When will he give up?
"I have a career, unlike most tpfers,"
You have a job. Not a career. If you have a career, you wouldn't do or say horrible things about people you don't know in real life, that could catch up with you, and shame you in your work-life. You risk getting your work reputation blemished and when you land up in the retrenchment bin, you have only yourself to blame. Bet you have work enemies.
lots of double standards here. apparently its O.K. to file for bankruptcy right before you recieve a load of cash from your soon to be rich hubby, but others are called scammers, liars & frauds ?
Interesting to see who MT is 'friends' with on facebook. Certain designers screwing and manipulating people now associating themselves with him? Yet nasty unwarranted attacks on individuals remain. Says a lot really!!
So, basically in a nutshell, suck up to MT, read his book, and he'll leave you alone!!! Shit sticks!!
Thing is, even if one doesn't like or post on the PF, there is NO alternative, as EH has been hijacked by him. Nothing is private anymore. He's like a predator sniffing out his next victim. He'll watch and wait for those that dare speak out against, or challenge him. My forum posting days are over...
Search for Michael Tonello and you will find not one but several on Facebook. Advice to all of you is to look through his Friends list and see if you have common friends or common Groups that you belong to. Unfriend yourself from the common friends and remove yourselves from the Groups. He has too much time on his hands and goes to Facebook to sniff out the tpfers. If you suspect that any of these friends are in cahoots with MT or DL, save yourself the trouble, block these people too. It's very easy to block. The button is there on the left side menu.
Who has filed for bankruptcy?
"So, basically in a nutshell, suck up to MT, read his book, and he'll leave you alone!!! Shit sticks!!"
Over my dead body. There is a priceless quality called integrity. Would rather donate 10,000 times the cost of his book to charity for real needy people.
"So, basically in a nutshell, suck up to MT, read his book, and he'll leave you alone!!! Shit sticks!!"
Over my dead body. There is a priceless quality called integrity. Would rather donate 10,000 times the cost of his book to charity for real needy people.
August 22, 2011 3:44 PM
Oh, I completely agree!!! I would NEVER stoop so low, as to read his book, flatter him, in the premise that he doesn't attack, or try to get on his good side. He's an opportunist, and a charlatan. Apart from the mods threads, his blog really isn't a revelation. It hasn't opened my eyes to things any intelligent person couldn't figure out for themselves. And if people want to buy, buy, buy, surely it's an individual thing. Let's not get into the psychology of why, not for us to analyse. For me his blog would have some substance, if people came forward to share their experiences, and frankly, most info is second hand, coming from MT. Hardly trustworthy!!
At your suggestion I took a look at his Friend list on Facebook. I noticed that long-time TPF member Rose, publicly known as Imogen Rose (not her real name), is on Tonello's Facebook Friend list. She is Facebook friends with a lot of TPF members and she is a nice person. I am not sure why she would be friends with a snake in the grass like Tonello.
If MT can see her FB wall, MT can see a lot of what she comments on her friends / tpfers' FB wall, unwittingly exposing her friends' privacy as long as MT is there. If she chooses to maintain the link with MT on FB, then it is you who have to either block MT or remove your link from Imogen Rose, and it's not even her fault.
Please remove the picture of MT. The last thing I want to see is his ugly face on this blog!
Michael Tonello said...
Dear Blog Owner,
Greetings...
I just had an earth shaking interview in NYC. At Teterboro now.
Just a very brief note to thank you Immensely for keeping my name " in the news". As my publicist pointed out to me, I couldn't buy all this publicity. Rock on.
Michael
P.S. Peace and Prosperity
August 23, 2011 1:34 PM
Is that where you keep your jet?
We use another airport, built a private hanger for our jets. As long as you are bragging, I win the contest. Jerk!!!!!!!
One would have to be really stupid to believe a word by MT. His publicist ... does he even have one? Have you ever read that a certain professional has declared to represent Mr MT? If he truly was so famous and sought after, do you not think that the said person would bask in the glory of the man who so-called broke the code of securing Birkins? If there is such a person, prove it.
A true-blue publicist can distinguish good publicity from bad publicity.
Michael Tonello said...
Dear Blog Owner,
Greetings...
I just had an earth shaking interview in NYC. At Teterboro now.
Just a very brief note to thank you Immensely for keeping my name " in the news". As my publicist pointed out to me, I couldn't buy all this publicity. Rock on.
Michael
P.S. Peace and Prosperity
August 23, 2011 1:34 PM
MT must be free loading on the duchess of junk husband's dinky plane, not a jet! She is dumb to hang onto the parasite.
According to Harper Collins, there is no publicist.
Love how Donna is calling others whores on PFA. After all, she married Blob Fatonen for his good looks. LOL!
"I love your blog!
It honestly is one stop shopping for casting a movie about idiotic vapid assholes.
YOU ARE SO RIGHT ON THE ABOVE. So apt for Michael Tonello.
You all seem to be riddled with jealousy and hatred.
Good luck with your health."
YOU MUST HAVE MEANT THIS FOR MICHAEL TONELLO. Look at when he started his PFA blog and how he attacked people. Our health is just fine. His, I am not so sure.
No one here is jealous. Trust. I think we're all pretty happy within our own skin. I'd rather die a painful death than have anything to do with MT or his entourage of 1.
Sorry but you've missed the mark.
It seems the PFA is dying a slow, and painful death!!! LOL!! See, MT you and your vile blog are not as well liked as you may think. Many have jumped ship. People have cottoned on, that it was all about pushing your own agenda, your poor excuse of a book, trying to name and shame those that dare speak against you. Nothing on your blog is believeable, infact it's laughable, just like YOU!!
It seems the PFA is dying a slow, and painful death!!! LOL!! See, MT you and your vile blog are not as well liked as you may think. Many have jumped ship. People have cottoned on, that it was all about pushing your own agenda, your poor excuse of a book, trying to name and shame those that dare speak against you. Nothing on your blog is believeable, infact it's laughable, just like YOU!!
September 3, 2011 2:50 AM
^"It seems"? How do you figure?
As long as you keep commenting on it here then it isn't dying. Idiots!
I see the some of the liars from the PF are now over at that stalker blog.
The person who posted the comment above obviously doesn't own any "jets". For starters those who own jets don't refer to them as such, they refer to them as planes. (Not unlike if you own a yacht, you refer to it as a boat; a mansion is called a home or house.) Additionally, if you own planes you keep them in a hangar and not a "hanger" (unless she actually keeps her jets in a closet hanging with her blouses). And while we're on the subject, that closet must be awfully long (like 4,000 feet long)!
September 5, 2011 9:08 AM
Hate to upset, not really, but the hangar is 35,000 sq. feet. There are a few "jets", my favorite being the Falcon 2000, a "HEAVY JET". I don't feel the need to disclose all. There is also an executive lounge. you are so jealous duchess, can't stand it if anyone has more then you do. There are many that do. Plus, I am not a member of PF. I just can't stand you from other forums. You are a show off, flaunting garbage.
PFA
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Maybe the stalker blog people will buy it? Hell knows that stalker blog is dying a slow painful death.
September 5, 2011 12:23 PM
Looks like dumb duchess is copying her posts from poster here, anonymous, Sept.3,2011 2:50 AM.
We've just heard that Michael Tonello, the previous owner of this blog (and the author of the bestseller Bringing Home the Birkin), will be on the new Bravo television show "Fashion Hunters", premiering on Tuesday October 4th at 10:30PM (9:30c) on the Bravo Network.
http://www.bravotv.com/fashion-hunters/
Who is he trying to kid? This imbecile really is desperate for all the attention he can get. He's run out of lies to post on his blog, he's reverted back to denying he owns the
blog, numbers are dropping on HIS blog, notice there is no counter on there anymore. Someone, please get this man
a psychiatrist!!
Anonymous said...
We've just heard that Michael Tonello, the previous owner of this blog (and the author of the bestseller Bringing Home the Birkin), will be on the new Bravo television show "Fashion Hunters", premiering on Tuesday October 4th at 10:30PM (9:30c) on the Bravo Network.
http://www.bravotv.com/fashion-hunters/
Who is he trying to kid? This imbecile really is desperate for all the attention he can get. He's run out of lies to post on his blog, he's reverted back to denying he owns the
blog, numbers are dropping on HIS blog, notice there is no counter on there anymore. Someone, please get this man
a psychiatrist!!
September 6, 2011 12:20 PM
He's a joke. I spoke to Andy Cohen about this imbecile.
So DL filed bankruptcy! Guess she didn't want the payout from her pre-nup to go to her creditors. She needed every dime to stomach crawling in the sack with that fat slob.
N18MV
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