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This afternoon, I scored a big win! I purchased two genuine Piaggio brown and black leather top case bags including 2 chrome rack carriers.

Earlier today, I found the two leather bags were listed for sale on Facebook marketplace in the Naples, Florida area. The previous owner of the 2 Piaggio leather bags, was a very kind lady who had two Vespas which were lost during the recent hurricane Ian, fortunately these leather bags were not touched!

I understand that these Piaggio leather top case bags were originally offered in black and brown along with the canvas version circa 2003-2004. These Piaggio leather bags with side pockets are quite rare and practically impossible to find. I searched online for quite some time for the brown one, but could not find them anywhere, as they haven't been made in years.

Similar leather bags without the Piaggio leather emblem (they cannot sew the Piaggio leather emblem onto the bag for trademark infringement reasons, however the Piaggio leather emblem is sold separately) are available in limited stock at Yelecome.com. You can see the available stock on their website: https://www.yelcome.com/

I contacted Yelcome, and the large leather top case in tan will be available only mid-year 2023.

Pictures will follow once I have an opportunity to mount these two beautiful leather bags on the two Vespas back home.
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Veni, Vidi, Posti
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Great find!
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Those are beautiful bags. While the design has changed a bit, Piaggio still offers the leather topcase in both black and brown as a Genuine Vespa Accessory, and they have been doing so since they were originally introduced.
I personally like the ones you found better than the new version.
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Welcome to MV! Those are, indeed, beautiful bags.

FYI-Clicking on the link you provided throws my anti-virus protection into overdrive and displays the following:

An infected file attempted to run on your device.
Threat name: JS: Trojan.Cryxos.10253
Path: /Users/guzzigal/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/WebKitCache/Version 16/Records/C63514E99C2B1008DB51B85841A7394BFBBE3F27/Resource/43FAA42EE2BC3F84237F329F537DDD1645A5357E-blob=>(INFECTED_JS)
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Guzzi Gal wrote:
Welcome to MV! Those are, indeed, beautiful bags.

FYI-Clicking on the link you provided throws my anti-virus protection into overdrive and displays the following:

An infected file attempted to run on your device.
Threat name: JS: Trojan.Cryxos.10253
Path: /Users/guzzigal/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/WebKitCache/Version 16/Records/C63514E99C2B1008DB51B85841A7394BFBBE3F27/Resource/43FAA42EE2BC3F84237F329F537DDD1645A5357E-blob=>(INFECTED_JS)
Hmm, usually when you see a path that includes your user folder the virus has already infected your browser and trying to intercept. I clicked on the link using my iPad since I'm not terribly concerned about a Trojan on it and did not get that error. To be on the safe side though I'm going to empty my cache.
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Congratulations! I have one of the old-design brown leather Piaggio bags on my wife's LXV. Discovered it on line at least ten years ago and snapped it up.

Definitely lends an air of class!
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Guzzi Gal wrote:
An infected file attempted to run on your device.
Threat name: JS: Trojan.Cryxos.10253
Here's some info on that trojan: https://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan_js_cryxos.shtml

It sounds like the main goal of that malware is to tell you that your browser is infected (which, I guess, technically it is) and to try to get you to call a bogus tech support number so that they can engage in some good old-fashioned social engineering, i.e. getting you to send them money.

It's otherwise fairly harmless if you navigate away from that site.
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How much were they?
Big Easy Rider wrote:
This afternoon, I scored a big win! I purchased two genuine Piaggio brown and black leather top case bags including 2 chrome rack carriers.

Earlier today, I found the two leather bags were listed for sale on Facebook marketplace in the Naples, Florida area. The previous owner of the 2 Piaggio leather bags, was a very kind lady who had two Vespas, which were lost during the recent hurricane Ian, fortunately these leather bags were not touched!

I understand that these Piaggio leather top case bags were originally offered in black and brown along with the canvas version circa 2003-2004. These Piaggio leather bags with side pockets are quite rare and practically impossible to find. I searched online for quite some time, for the brown one, but could not find them anywhere, as they haven't been made in years.

Similar leather bags without the Piaggio leather emblem (they cannot sew the Piaggio leather emblem onto the bag for trademark infringement reasons, however Piaggio leather emblem is sold separately) emblem are available in limited stock at Yelecome.com. You can see the available stock on their website: https://www.yelcome.com/

I contacted Yelcome, and the large leather top case in tan will be available only mid-year 2023.

Pictures will follow once I have an opportunity to mount these two beautiful leather bags on the two Vespas back home.
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I paid $550 for the 2 Piaggio leather bags, including the 2 chrome racks. Seller originally wanted $650, and I figured these bags would sell fast, so I did not want to low ball the seller or risk this deal.
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Big Easy Rider wrote:
I paid $550 for the 2 Piaggio leather bags, including the 2 chrome racks. Seller originally wanted $650, and I figured these bags would sell fast, so I did not want to low ball the seller or risk this deal.
Wow great deal!!

Congrats!
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jess wrote:
Here's some info on that trojan: https://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan_js_cryxos.shtml

It sounds like the main goal of that malware is to tell you that your browser is infected (which, I guess, technically it is) and to try to get you to call a bogus tech support number so that they can engage in some good old-fashioned social engineering, i.e. getting you to send them money.

It's otherwise fairly harmless if you navigate away from that site.
Thanks. I just got the alert I posted and nothing else. I figured a heads-up was in order, just in case.
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I just tried the link and it totally worked for me on my usually highly secure work device

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