Yeah, my first thought was that they could very easily just copy the photos and use them, and you'd probably never know...and it's pretty amazing that they were polite enough to ask.
I run a large discussion forum for Tokidoki, which is the art of Italian artist Simone Legno (
www.tokidoki-forum in case anyone is interested)...the purses and bags are a big collectors item and tons are bought/sold on eBay. We've had SOOOOOO many problems with people stealing photos of my members' bags and then using them to list fraudulent sales on eBay. I caution everyone to prominently watermark all photos they post on my board for that very reason.
-SB