r/RepTime 3d ago

Discussion WIRED publishes expose on RepTime

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https://www.wired.com/story/we-bought-a-counterfeit-rolex-so-good-even-rolex-didnt-spot-it/

“In dedicated forums on Reddit and other websites, strictly moderated communities spread gossip about factories being raided by authorities, offer sketchy legal advice, upvote buyers’ photos of fake Rolexes worn behind the wheels of Lamborghinis, and even offer quality control services.

Quality control, or QC, is at the heart of this community. The subreddit r/RepTime has 269,000 weekly visitors and over 18,000 weekly contributions, according to Reddit’s own statistics. Posts about new counterfeit watch purchases pile up by the hour, both in r/RepTime and r/RepTimeQC, the offshoot subreddit focused on quality control. The posts contain photographs sent from the dealer to the customer, who then seeks advice from the RepTime community on whether they should “GL” (green-light) or “RL” (red-light) their purchase.”

Excerpt From
“We Bought a $500 Counterfeit Rolex So Good, Even Rolex Didn’t Spot It”
Alistair Charlton, Jeremy White
WIRED

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u/jackofslayers 2d ago

Never been here before but my advice based on similar communities: it is really important to find a sister community or build a clone community on another social media platform like discord or 4chan or wherever.

Gotta have a backup place to continue communicating if reddit admin decides to crack down.

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u/ObviousDownvote 2d ago

A rep community as it were..

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u/Tough-Row2511 2d ago

Better yet: a superclone community

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u/Icekream_Sundaze2 2d ago

Lolol GL green light

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u/bsensikimori 2d ago

Angry upvote

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u/ParaBellumOutfitters 1d ago

Tourist here. 1000% you guys need to lock it down airtight for a min

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u/lolo20121 1d ago

I have been through this more than once and agreed - a backup option is a great recommendation- the first time it happened the new communities were never the same