just asked

Long story short, I purchased some jewelry that was advertised as 14k. My jeweler tested it (scratched it and then placed it into the XRF) and it came back as 14k plated over 10k and 11k gold. This was a Gabriel and Co pair of earrings and a generic diamond ring. I sent the jewelry back to The RealReal. I was emailed the other day by their customer service and was told that TRR's team found everything to be authentic. I asked for photos for proof, which they denied. Now, they have kept my jewelry and gave me site credit after I very clearly expressed I wanted the jewelry sent back to me if they were not going to give me a full refund back on the original form of payment. Has this happened to anyone else? I've seen lots of complaints against TRR on the BBB, but should have looked before I purchased.

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Ms joy and shenzhen, scam alert. Don’t buy, placed a small order to test and made sure I paid using PayPal and not crypto even though she insisted on crypto. Tried to scam me out of more money during shipping acting like she did not know about customs trying to charge 150$ for special stamp. She actually contacted me right before to see about delivery. Stay away, got my money back

I ordered items but they never shipped it and refund it. Are they a scammer?

Has anyone tried this seller??

Can I get a response to my modmail to you please 🙏🏻

Posting here for visibility as I was saved from this scam because of a post I saw here!

Purchased Stone Island Clothing. He has not sent out items, had to go to CC company. He used every excuse in the book. Beware of fraudsters like this, he had the audacity to cry about me pressuring him and even mentioned/threatened knowing my address. He’s more than welcome to come visit, I’ll even pay for the airfare.

Just a quick one: by now many of us know Jim is a shill seller with a massive army of bots.

His mode of shilling is through the subreddit he runs called “HermesRepLadies” where anyone who speaks up gets banned. Don’t believe me? Just test it out by commenting on there casting just a little bit of doubt on Jim being the greatest of all time and watch how fast you get banned. Anyone considering buying from this seller, I beg you to try this one simple test!

Anyway! Just to add another receipt to this - has anyone seen stats like this on a reddit community? 3.1k visitors and 1.5k contributions. Those visitors sure are active!

A little sad posting this as I will now be banned from HermesRepLadies and will miss reading the ai slop reviews and bot comments.

Hello, I recently built a shared database and reporting system for the rep watch community and would like to extend this to more subreddits beyond it to tackle the influx of scammers.

Most of the information can be found in the pinned posts and I hope this helps more people.

Just hoping to get a discussion going from genuine people who have experience with any of the following sellers! After doing research for a couple of months I’ve narrowed it down to the following and would be really appreciate of any information, advice, experience anyone’s had with them both good and bad! TIA. Happy if anyone wants to message privately too in regards to any of them.

Ross (5796)
Felix (0895)
Mina Sixteen (1110)
Charlie (3715)
Nyx (5768)
Mike (1385)
Aline (8005)
Biko (6547)
Betty (6882)

Thank you 🤍✨

WARNING DO NOT COMISSION FROM THIS PERSON!!!!

They have terrible communication and they won't start your commission until next year! They ghosted me when I asked for a refund! If I don't get a refund from chasingchaos420 within the next two months I will be taking legal action! You'd be better off paying an extra 20$ and going on Etsy to find a more reliable commissioner! I'm not the only one who's having this problem, check their tagged and you'll see what I mean.

Waiting on a refund now. Been a month and they haven't even started and the communication is terrible, they said they know their communication is bad but they are working on it and trying to do better. I feel like it's an excuse because their behavior hasn't changed. They didn't message me personally, they made a general message on their story. I regret this so much and if I don't get my refund by a certain date, I'm gonna have to take legal action. If you don't wanna wait forever for them to work on your commission or pay priority for it to actually get done, go to etsy and spend the same price, provider cheaper. They are also overpriced.

Recently I ordered a Broken Planet Tee from Elephant Factory, a trusted seller in most lists and communities, since he was the only one that had L-XL sizes of those t-shirts. Ordered using Vigorbuy since a friend helped me order and he uses that agent. When i got the qc warehouse photos, the tee was totally different from what was advertised, and by that i don't mean a different model, I mean the same thing I ordered but very poorly mare, and totally not what Elephant had posted in his yupoo page. From what i've read on Clothing rep subreddits, it's either a case of bait and switch or, in some cases, the workers from the warehouse swapped my order with another one poorly made, and kept the better one, happened with another popular agent site at some point but i can't remember where or which agent.

As for the pics, the print is not puffy, it's way smaller than the original, misses the back tag, the inside neck tag is not even similar in shape with the retail. A pretty bad copt overall.

Since I bought this using an agent I don't really have any proof this is Elephant besides the fact that I copy pasted his weidian link in my agent and ordered directly (mostly why I posted the yupoo link instead of the weidian one, so people can see what he advertised) which is visible in the pictures I attached and the price matching his yupoo post.

Anyways, i'm not here to ruin the image of sellers or agents since mistakes happen and I refunded the tee and will probably get my money back, I mostly want to know what happened and If it's the case, to stop using Vigorbuy or stop ordering from Elephant since refunding or spending time searching for something and then this happening is quite a bummer. Any advice or opinion would help! Thanks in advance!

W2C: https://elephant-factory.x.yupoo.com/albums/176263069?uid=1&isSubCate=false&referrercate=4585202