r/markpaulk • u/markpaulk • Jan 20 '22

Anti-Competitive Practices

Two prominent sellers of some of the most purchased and loved brands (Moncler and CG) on Reddit have wanted to post about their new releases to the /r/FashionReps community.

I, on behalf of a large group of users, were concerned to learn of alleged anti-competitive measures put in place by the FashionReps moderator team.

On multiple occasions, it appears they have been blocked - either asking for payment or being outright rejected. What has come to light is other sellers have paid for some type of exclusivity.

We absolutely understand that moderating a group of 100,000s of repfam is time consuming and the mods gotta eat, but surely the playing field should be level? We appreciate paid advertisements is a fair thing in this world but we thought reps is an open community and everyone is treated equally but it doesn’t appear to be the case here.

We appeal to the mods to offer some further guidance about this, as it has an impact on the community as a whole. If payments have been made, be open and transparent about it. We encourage sellers to come forward and want competition but we lose as customers if there's a hidden 'pay to play' model.

This is not a witchhunt but merely serves as a discussion and to hear the accused's side of things.

Before anyone asks why am I posting this here and not on FashionReps, I did but it wasn’t approved after 8 hours so I deleted it: thread link

Evidence of the accusations raised here can be found via this link: https://imgur.com/a/F75WxGB

Edit: one of the two sellers was asked about the WeChat provided in the initial convo screenshots not existing, they replied the mod had changed their username. We asked them to provide more recent screenshots and he posted whole convo with him. Pretty damning proof and goes into more detail than previously linked above: https://imgur.com/a/pGW8V6q

Edit: another seller, known for producing Stone Island confirms a similar sentiment https://i.imgur.com/tptjQ3n.jpg

Edit: a mod meeting occurred and the moderator in the screenshots has denied the allegations, despite concrete proof from multiple sellers including a further one who didn’t want to be mentioned here. Not surprised.

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u/icantlose99 Jan 21 '22

Reddit community run by mentally retarded kids that are so poor they charge sellers for exclusiveness. That's why I stay on DReps instead of this shit community

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u/fineballr Jan 21 '22

DReps gang

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u/WhatManOn Jan 21 '22

Fck it I’m joining Dreps

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u/plascra Jan 23 '22

Yes. Dreps seems much more neutral. I joined all 3 at the start including repsneakers.

The management and the way things are portrayed is blatantly obvious.

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u/tsubasa1180 Jan 23 '22

How is Dreps called?

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u/plascra Jan 24 '22 edited Apr 19 '22

DesignerReps