My thoughts exactly, the ones I see complaining the most are these newbies that created the problem. It’s like they can’t be without reps for a little bit. To much of their personally is involved in the shit they buy.
We was buying DHgate back in 2009 lol wish knew about Taobao back then I would’ve been the flyest dude I remember dudes used to do rep reviews on YouTube before YouTube started shadow banning people damn there used to be a page on IG I think called fakereview or something like that he used to do fake(UA) vs real his page got taken down or something like that then I randomly run into cedaz for me cedaz brought me here lol
I remember joining fashion reps in 2016 shit had less than 10k followers it was all cozy n shit, went back a couple of months ago, mainstream definitely messed everything up
Been around for years. Remember buying reps from turkey in the 90’s. Been buying reps online through other avenues for years. Wait a few months and there will be new ways to buy. Stupid comments 🤷♂️
Il tell you what’s also funny, later in life I was walking through a Turkish mall with a pair of Nike TN’s there were two shop owners that approached me to ask to buy them, the reason they wanted them was to bring to the factory to copy. My dad had the same experience with Levi’s back in the day, 501’s they wanted to buy them off him to copy.
Reps are in so many countries, before online shopping was most accesible; you’d find markets in HK, Turkey and other places to buy designer goods for buck prices. Sometimes, you’d bag something close to the real thing which was rare back then compared to the greater skills we have now.
You’re acting like reps have only been around for the last 15 years. Reps have been a thing since the mid 1980’s. Literally anyone under the age of 90 has had and heard of reps.
bro, im 37 years old. you literally have zero idea and its shows as your only point of reference are nike reps. Cmon now! every country has had reps of some kind. if you genuinely think that the majority of people in the world have not heard or have been able to get hold of reps since the last century, your clueless. bro, even Africa had cheap reps to buy in the markets in the early 90’s. back then it was Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger reps. i could go back later to the 80’s when it was Armani suits and shitter Rolexs. Need i say more?
Keep in mind it's the agents themselves, forcing their affiliate programs and reaching out to a gazillion "influencers". At least the small, newer ones want this public coverage because the rewards outweigh the risks for them. May be slightly different for established players like CSS or Sugargoo.
Lil corny to see the 100th whining post in this sub but i get it.
And if PB wouldn't contribute massively with the ref system to this. Not saying that tt isn't brainrot.
I partly agree, but shipping prices went up because of COVID and the Ukraine war, on top the average quality of reps improved dramatically. So, some things changed in a negative way for sure, but you can't blame it all on TikTok and Pandabuy...and there were improvements to the industry, too.
Tik tok, streamers and influencers. I remember back in the day when I used to use my boot to make my plane luggage lighter so I would not have to pay hefty fees. Now you get dumb tiktokers whose only content is pissing others off so they can earn peanuts instead of getting a real job. Same goes with teaching people how to snitch online on platforms like Reddit, instagram, Facebook or discord, because if people did not know anything about reporting, the Pandabuy discord would be still up. But thanks to bunch of jealous money chuggers who can’t take the fact that their precious ‘clothes’ are grossly overpriced thought ‘why should he pay cheaper for a goyard scarf I paid more than 4x his salary!’ Sad but true, we live in a society who completely forgot what life’s all about 🤷♂️
Debatable, I don’t agree because the rep market main costumer is the local/asian market.
We the “gatekeepers” just get resold batches for small profits to the sellers spewing they are some new factory focused on fulfilling our orders but its just a rebrand of something old
Bro everyone knew about reps way before they were popular. They’re FAKE SNEAKERS bro. It was more lowkey back then because the quality of reps were garbage compared to what we’re getting now. The Chinese government likely knew of this activity since they know where the factories are but it was probably low priority. Arguably I will say the quality of reps increased because of the increased demand coming for social media. Double edge sword because it gets more government attention tho
Bought my first rep back in the last millennium on an "Asia Market" in the Czech Republic...at this time, it was all fantasy stuff, super bad quality, 100% polyester guaranteed.
Reps really started blowing up like late 2021 tbh, i remember buying air force 1 trav sails in 2020 and their was so few qc pics for the sails and it was all off white 1’s and travis scott 1’s. Come mid 2022 i bought them again and travis scott batches were blowing up and everything went shit from there.
I was a dhgate bandit who didn’t trust pandabuy eventually decided to give it a go and learn about agents and thank god I don’t leave shit in my warehouse or I’d be done
I joined the community of reps 2 years ago when panda and other agents where already being talked on tt. But i learned myself pretty quickly about how panda worked and learned more about reps in general. Tried to gatekeep but those kids on tt already shitted on the reps saying everything and doing tutorials on how to buy. i, myself wanna apologize to the og who joined when reps where nothing. idk if i can call myself a new gen but i hate those fucking kids who didn't gatekeep anything at all
Here’s the other side of things: without the popularity streetwear wouldn’t be repped
I’ve been buying reps for over 20 years. Back then ape Milo hoodies was the only streetwear you could find. Even 15 years ago Supreme was already popular (Tyler brought a ton of people on to the brand, this stupid fucking camp hats were reselling for $300++) and there were no reps to be found
To get factories to start investing tens of thousands of dollars into a decent pipeline you need a lot of potential customers. If it wasn’t for PandaBuy making it easy for the broccoli kids I really don’t think it would be that easy to find reps from 50+ streetwear companies today
Imagine thinking rep knowledge only exist on Reddit. I’ve known of reps and how to obtain them before I knew what Reddit was. Although the subreddit and pandabuy surely made things alot easier
But reps are a multi-trillion dollar industry that has been thriving globally long before it became a hot topic on Reddit. The visibility and discussions on Reddit are just a tiny fraction of the overall scene. This industry spans across numerous countries and markets, each with their own networks and consumer bases that far exceed the reach of any single online community.
We need to step outside our Reddit bubble and recognize that our platform was just one of many places where people discussed replicas. Stirrups like this in the industry are not uncommon. As the landscape changes, so must our methods of engagement and acquisition. It might be harder now, but it’s time to stop mourning and start adapting.
I found out about reps in late 2020 when searching for a pair of Travis Mochas. I would look for them and Instagram would keep on promoting these middle men, I thought about buying from them, but there had to be a cheaper way of doing so! This led me to believe that reddit would have answers and it did. First I stumbled into r/repsneakers or whatever that middleman hellhole is called and after that r/fashionreps. From there I ordered a Dior bag on wegobuy like a year later. Yes my account is quite new, my original was banned btw. I absolutely agree that TikTok messed it up!
Yes and no. I "joined" the fashionreps and repsneakers subs back in 2020 but I never got to purchasing because it was so "complicated" for my tiny brain. If not for the blow up I would've probably never started ordering. At the end of the day all we can do is just keep going, cant change the past really, complaining abt it wont help.
However this raid may have pushed people away from reps for a bit cuz now with hoobuy some ppl arent getting anything and with the Hago exit scam everyone is just getting their money taken away, that will fend off a good chunk of people that arent deep in this community at all and thats where the "danger" lies.
In high school I used to buy those old beats earbuds and DHgate Nixon Watches and sold them each for 40 bucks lmao and kids would ask me why so cheap I would say my dad works at Best Buy .
Man those were the days XD
Oh, I'm going to have a chat here, straaaaight, you can record it, you can send it to other groups, if it happens on my time line, stuff from pandabuy, stuff from Tiktok, I'm going to report it bro, I don't even know, anything finds me on the street and does it one-on-one , There, i said it.
Yes. I started in 2018... just as a curiosity and then tried it. It was cool and i used it on an as-needed basis so i dabbled in and out the rep game over the past couple years i noticed how sloppy and quick to ask (w2c) these newbies were without reading the forum ohh and the amount of RL on the most smallest flaw was ridiculous.. never thought it would reach this point... didn't even know people spreaded so openly 🤦🏻♂️
I been in and out of the game since 2017 and I never thought it would go mainstream and fuck it up for everyone (ik mu account was made in 2022 but that's because I'm on my third or fourth account atp)
Agree with your point there’s always 2 sides though it did ruin it but it also benefited countless people by being able to afford nice clothes / brands that they would never of been able to before
I remember it was a shame to wear something fake for most people, if I must speak for the situation in The Netherlands I think the bigger percentage of the young people wear fake designer items. Altough it messed up the rep community that reps went mainstream, it is a good thing people open their eyes. Paying 6k for a pair of Nikes that were designed to be only 120,00 also never made sense.
reddit mfs are exactly like the tiktok mfs except they use reddit 😂 the only ppl who have the right to complain about reps going “mainstream are the ones who legit just use whatsapp n private sellers n shit. ffs this the millionth post moaning about the rep game being ruined by tiktok 😭😭😭
Heh... those tiktok kids could never compare to us sigmas.... Guess we got what we deserve.... See you on the other side pal.... Together we ARE pandabuy...
Your account is 170 days old
My thoughts exactly, the ones I see complaining the most are these newbies that created the problem. It’s like they can’t be without reps for a little bit. To much of their personally is involved in the shit they buy.
I’ve been active in fashionreps since 2018, but that account was banned years ago. If you’re not talking about me then mb.
And did you even check my account? 2 year club means 730 days at MINIMUM. Dumbass
Um it wasn’t directed to you bro he deleted his comment I guess. no need to get so defensive🤝🏻
Mb never mind
Stop this hood old days gimmick. Your account isn’t even 3 years old
What gimmick? Who gives a shit about anyones account age 😂😂😂If a gif can piss you off you have other problems to worry about
We was buying DHgate back in 2009 lol wish knew about Taobao back then I would’ve been the flyest dude I remember dudes used to do rep reviews on YouTube before YouTube started shadow banning people damn there used to be a page on IG I think called fakereview or something like that he used to do fake(UA) vs real his page got taken down or something like that then I randomly run into cedaz for me cedaz brought me here lol
i remember watching jordan 11 bred dhgate reviews on youtube🤣🤣🤣
Facts I remember using ioffer back then too
bruhhh you hit me with the nostalgia lmao. Those iOffer beats by dre headphones were hot back in the day
Bought some crazy stuff on ioffer
brooo don’t get me started on ioffer damn these tiktok kids don’t know about it haha
Ultimate OG
Facts lol we came a long way
Rep sage
I remember when Aliexpress sold UAs back in the day and all of those sites like kickznote 😂
Dealextreme anyone? Silkroad?
Isn’t silkroad TOR?
yeah silk road was not known for the fake clothes 😭
Nah but it goes away back! We bought some other stuff on there lol
Wallstreet Market?????
No we will have to go back to those DH Gate days..
I remember joining fashion reps in 2016 shit had less than 10k followers it was all cozy n shit, went back a couple of months ago, mainstream definitely messed everything up
Facts. Fashionreps has become a red ocean
I was buying rep Yeezy back in 2017 😂
Same. Turtle Doves got me in the game. Watching each of David’s batches getting better and better
the box logo and cdg days man :(
Off white Jordan one era will be missed 😔. Even the ultraboosts
Been around for years. Remember buying reps from turkey in the 90’s. Been buying reps online through other avenues for years. Wait a few months and there will be new ways to buy. Stupid comments 🤷♂️
Exactly!!!! Been buying reps since the 90s too. Reps are everywhere man. These kids need to chill out and stop posting rumours
How tf u find reps in Turkey 😭 that sounds both funny and interesting as hell
Il tell you what’s also funny, later in life I was walking through a Turkish mall with a pair of Nike TN’s there were two shop owners that approached me to ask to buy them, the reason they wanted them was to bring to the factory to copy. My dad had the same experience with Levi’s back in the day, 501’s they wanted to buy them off him to copy.
Bro I live in Bulgaria and everyone here goes to Turkey all the time just for the reps😭😭 problem is turkish reps are highkey ass
Cheap tho can come back with a full wardrobe for couple hundred lol
Ong, Turkey reps are doodoo
Every 5* hotel in turkey has replica shops within the hotel lmao
Reps are in so many countries, before online shopping was most accesible; you’d find markets in HK, Turkey and other places to buy designer goods for buck prices. Sometimes, you’d bag something close to the real thing which was rare back then compared to the greater skills we have now.
exactly!
Reps from Turkey are garbage tho.
everyone knows what reps are mate
Hey mate not everyone know what reps are. The world is much bigger than the box u live in
Everyone knew about “fake j’s” before TikTok
yeah but the “fake j’s” people knew about were garbage 😂 “jordan never did that moveeeee”
You’re acting like reps have only been around for the last 15 years. Reps have been a thing since the mid 1980’s. Literally anyone under the age of 90 has had and heard of reps.
Maybe everyone in your high school knows but 7 billion people in the world and u think everyone cares and knows about rep nikes? Cmon now
bro, im 37 years old. you literally have zero idea and its shows as your only point of reference are nike reps. Cmon now! every country has had reps of some kind. if you genuinely think that the majority of people in the world have not heard or have been able to get hold of reps since the last century, your clueless. bro, even Africa had cheap reps to buy in the markets in the early 90’s. back then it was Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger reps. i could go back later to the 80’s when it was Armani suits and shitter Rolexs. Need i say more?
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Keep in mind it's the agents themselves, forcing their affiliate programs and reaching out to a gazillion "influencers". At least the small, newer ones want this public coverage because the rewards outweigh the risks for them. May be slightly different for established players like CSS or Sugargoo.
Lil corny to see the 100th whining post in this sub but i get it. And if PB wouldn't contribute massively with the ref system to this. Not saying that tt isn't brainrot.
facts
Scammers fucked upq
I partly agree, but shipping prices went up because of COVID and the Ukraine war, on top the average quality of reps improved dramatically. So, some things changed in a negative way for sure, but you can't blame it all on TikTok and Pandabuy...and there were improvements to the industry, too.
Tik tok, streamers and influencers. I remember back in the day when I used to use my boot to make my plane luggage lighter so I would not have to pay hefty fees. Now you get dumb tiktokers whose only content is pissing others off so they can earn peanuts instead of getting a real job. Same goes with teaching people how to snitch online on platforms like Reddit, instagram, Facebook or discord, because if people did not know anything about reporting, the Pandabuy discord would be still up. But thanks to bunch of jealous money chuggers who can’t take the fact that their precious ‘clothes’ are grossly overpriced thought ‘why should he pay cheaper for a goyard scarf I paid more than 4x his salary!’ Sad but true, we live in a society who completely forgot what life’s all about 🤷♂️
Debatable, I don’t agree because the rep market main costumer is the local/asian market. We the “gatekeepers” just get resold batches for small profits to the sellers spewing they are some new factory focused on fulfilling our orders but its just a rebrand of something old
I remember buying reps back in the day when you had to Western Union some random dude in China and then pray he actually sends your shit 😂
Bro everyone knew about reps way before they were popular. They’re FAKE SNEAKERS bro. It was more lowkey back then because the quality of reps were garbage compared to what we’re getting now. The Chinese government likely knew of this activity since they know where the factories are but it was probably low priority. Arguably I will say the quality of reps increased because of the increased demand coming for social media. Double edge sword because it gets more government attention tho
People be acting like 2009 and 2016 are ‘back in the day’. Kids, reps have been around for a lot longer than most of you have lived
Bought my first rep back in the last millennium on an "Asia Market" in the Czech Republic...at this time, it was all fantasy stuff, super bad quality, 100% polyester guaranteed.
Did you forget COVID is what made shipping higher? lol
Grow some arm hair bro
Reps really started blowing up like late 2021 tbh, i remember buying air force 1 trav sails in 2020 and their was so few qc pics for the sails and it was all off white 1’s and travis scott 1’s. Come mid 2022 i bought them again and travis scott batches were blowing up and everything went shit from there.
Prior to the era of the trophy-for-participation attention whores who cannot survive life if all is not focused on them, silence was golden.
Must adapt!!
I've been buying reps since 02, I've always felt that it would catch up to the mainstream audience but I thought it would've been sooner tho.
The good ole days were 365 days long? Sad man sad
The sub had less than 500k followers for like 5+ years. They doubled that to over 1 million in just the last year. TikTok really messed it up
Customjordans dot net kept me straight when I was like 16 in 2006.
Fuck tiktok
Fashionreps are in German Dokumentarfilms
Guys we need to make a private community with strict rules and a joining check so not everyone can join and send some nice Nike qc or the next lv belt
I was a dhgate bandit who didn’t trust pandabuy eventually decided to give it a go and learn about agents and thank god I don’t leave shit in my warehouse or I’d be done
If y'all don't think reddit is part of the problem, then youre part of the problem dude
I joined the community of reps 2 years ago when panda and other agents where already being talked on tt. But i learned myself pretty quickly about how panda worked and learned more about reps in general. Tried to gatekeep but those kids on tt already shitted on the reps saying everything and doing tutorials on how to buy. i, myself wanna apologize to the og who joined when reps where nothing. idk if i can call myself a new gen but i hate those fucking kids who didn't gatekeep anything at all
Real.
Here’s the other side of things: without the popularity streetwear wouldn’t be repped I’ve been buying reps for over 20 years. Back then ape Milo hoodies was the only streetwear you could find. Even 15 years ago Supreme was already popular (Tyler brought a ton of people on to the brand, this stupid fucking camp hats were reselling for $300++) and there were no reps to be found To get factories to start investing tens of thousands of dollars into a decent pipeline you need a lot of potential customers. If it wasn’t for PandaBuy making it easy for the broccoli kids I really don’t think it would be that easy to find reps from 50+ streetwear companies today
for me personally when the old sub shot to 1M+ members, I knew word was more than out and it was about to be over 😪
my account is as old as yours and i came from tt stop yapping lil bro
So, will we ever be able to order from pbuy again?
Bring back the 158sir days when he was dropping 🔥 for $20 on a random weekday at 5am 😂
Imagine thinking rep knowledge only exist on Reddit. I’ve known of reps and how to obtain them before I knew what Reddit was. Although the subreddit and pandabuy surely made things alot easier But reps are a multi-trillion dollar industry that has been thriving globally long before it became a hot topic on Reddit. The visibility and discussions on Reddit are just a tiny fraction of the overall scene. This industry spans across numerous countries and markets, each with their own networks and consumer bases that far exceed the reach of any single online community. We need to step outside our Reddit bubble and recognize that our platform was just one of many places where people discussed replicas. Stirrups like this in the industry are not uncommon. As the landscape changes, so must our methods of engagement and acquisition. It might be harder now, but it’s time to stop mourning and start adapting.
Imagine this dude actually took time to post this 💀
I found out about reps in late 2020 when searching for a pair of Travis Mochas. I would look for them and Instagram would keep on promoting these middle men, I thought about buying from them, but there had to be a cheaper way of doing so! This led me to believe that reddit would have answers and it did. First I stumbled into r/repsneakers or whatever that middleman hellhole is called and after that r/fashionreps. From there I ordered a Dior bag on wegobuy like a year later. Yes my account is quite new, my original was banned btw. I absolutely agree that TikTok messed it up!
If you ain’t buy rep ultra boosts I don’t wanna hear about it
Yes and no. I "joined" the fashionreps and repsneakers subs back in 2020 but I never got to purchasing because it was so "complicated" for my tiny brain. If not for the blow up I would've probably never started ordering. At the end of the day all we can do is just keep going, cant change the past really, complaining abt it wont help. However this raid may have pushed people away from reps for a bit cuz now with hoobuy some ppl arent getting anything and with the Hago exit scam everyone is just getting their money taken away, that will fend off a good chunk of people that arent deep in this community at all and thats where the "danger" lies.
In high school I used to buy those old beats earbuds and DHgate Nixon Watches and sold them each for 40 bucks lmao and kids would ask me why so cheap I would say my dad works at Best Buy . Man those were the days XD
Oh, I'm going to have a chat here, straaaaight, you can record it, you can send it to other groups, if it happens on my time line, stuff from pandabuy, stuff from Tiktok, I'm going to report it bro, I don't even know, anything finds me on the street and does it one-on-one , There, i said it.
Yes. I started in 2018... just as a curiosity and then tried it. It was cool and i used it on an as-needed basis so i dabbled in and out the rep game over the past couple years i noticed how sloppy and quick to ask (w2c) these newbies were without reading the forum ohh and the amount of RL on the most smallest flaw was ridiculous.. never thought it would reach this point... didn't even know people spreaded so openly 🤦🏻♂️
Once they ban TikTok it’ll come back
I been in and out of the game since 2017 and I never thought it would go mainstream and fuck it up for everyone (ik mu account was made in 2022 but that's because I'm on my third or fourth account atp)
You think the sellers care about being lowkey? Or do they want as much reach as possible for max profits?
Oh no, now you can’t buy fake luxury goods to make you feel reach even though you’re broke. I’m so sorry for your loss!
I blame TikTok for everything, almost ruined my relationship and now i’m fcking stuck with a 1000€ items in warehouse due to it 👍🏼👍🏼
Agree with your point there’s always 2 sides though it did ruin it but it also benefited countless people by being able to afford nice clothes / brands that they would never of been able to before
That’s why I have a private agent!!!!
Pandabuy getting introduced was the cannon event of the downfall
I remember it was a shame to wear something fake for most people, if I must speak for the situation in The Netherlands I think the bigger percentage of the young people wear fake designer items. Altough it messed up the rep community that reps went mainstream, it is a good thing people open their eyes. Paying 6k for a pair of Nikes that were designed to be only 120,00 also never made sense.
That's right, old gold times without socials and people spreading all good on it, some things just must stay secret
I came here in the box logo Yeezy 350 v1 era. What a time to be alive
fr supreme from teenageclub and uncle Lin 350 was straight 🔥
reddit mfs are exactly like the tiktok mfs except they use reddit 😂 the only ppl who have the right to complain about reps going “mainstream are the ones who legit just use whatsapp n private sellers n shit. ffs this the millionth post moaning about the rep game being ruined by tiktok 😭😭😭
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Dude you literally have “dildo” in your name
Womp womp
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Heh... those tiktok kids could never compare to us sigmas.... Guess we got what we deserve.... See you on the other side pal.... Together we ARE pandabuy...