Competitive sales mean that it is hard to distinguish between a knockoff handbag at a bargain price and a replica handbag of the same quality. This means that often it is hard to tell the difference between what is genuine and what is replica. Merchants of wholesale replica handbags create well-made and inviting websites. Auction sites like E-bay have now banned the trading of designer names, unless the seller can prove that an item with a designer name is the genuine article.