“Even if everyone else knew it was real, I’d always know that mine came from a cardboard box in a trunk,” lamented Carrie. “My marriage is a fake Fendi!” exclaimed Charlotte in a 2000 episode of Sex & The City, which featured Samantha dragging Carrie to a San Fernando Valley-based fakes dealer. But follow what your bag heart tells you 😊” on a faux Louis Vuitton satchel or “The heart is slightly off on bottom left but I am the person who notices when someone puts on eyeliner!!! Most people wouldn’t notice!!!” on a $350 Gucci Marmont dupe.īefore social media, counterfeit items were purchased down back alleys, or through word of mouth. I don't think you'll be happy with the flaws. Users post their own (usually harsh) self-assessment of the bag using a complicated scoring rubric while active community members are called upon to reassure or critique them because, as the forum’s guidelines state, “We are a community, and you have to contribute and do your part if you want to get something out of it.” It’s all very, “bless your heart,” with comments like, “Personally I would ask for a refund for this bag. Things get weird around the QC (Quality Control) posts, where recent or prospective buyers ask other Redditors to rank the items they’ve already bought or are thinking of buying. But follow what your bag heart tells you 😊" "Personally I would ask for a refund for this bag. “ya’ll have ruined me for most auths now,” one user posted before sharing a gallery of pictures of a Loewe bag tagged on Imgur as “erotic.” There are posts saluting their favorite counterfeiters, or TS (Trusted Sellers) for their art and artistry and FFF (Friday Foto Flex) posts which ask users to incorporate multiple fake items into an outfit to win others’ adoration and support.
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Sure there are the normal posts: the HAUL posts featuring goods fresh from Chinese warehouses, the W2Cs (Where to Cop) posts asking how to find certain goods, and the AUTH posts where buyers share HD photos documenting every stitch, seam, and label from retail stores for factories to reference. “If you think Blogsnark has drama,, you should look at RepLadies,” someone wrote. I first discovered r/RepLadies in the comments section of an article on Caroline Calloway.
And, it’s a cave of wonders where all that glitters is gold-plated.until self-sabotage, guilt, and fear sets in. The forum would make excellent fodder for a sociological study of compare-despair cycles, self-flagellation and shopping addiction.
r/RepLadies is a digital world where women attempt to beat capitalism at its own game using ingenuity and resourcefulness. There are guides on how to get verified on WeChat, how to speak in conversational Mandarin on Google Translate, how to reserve a shipping locker (Guangdong or Beijing?), and how to group items to avoid getting flagged by customs, all in the name of having, for example, a pair of “Givenchy” bike shorts. It’s a community that revels in the granular buying process of finding, locating, and shipping fake goods. The subreddit r/RepLadies is a self-described “happy place” for discussion about replicas and “fashion at any level.” It has 71.9K subscribers and thousands more lurkers, and it’s far from your run-of-the-mill Reddit forum.
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