[Discussion] About the high amount MM GATs and Golden Goose threads - looking for help on solving it.

Hey everyone,

As many of you have already pointed out before the amount of Maison Margiela GAT QC posts and Golden Goose QC and LC posts have become pretty annoying and don't offer much to the community.

I'm going to fix that, while still staying helpful for people who might be new to this subreddit/don't how to QC and LC.

What will change:

  • I want to create a megathread for both GATs and Golden Goose with pretty much every piece of information someone might need. How to QC/LC yourself, the best sellers and batches, sizing etc.
  • Ban every standard QC and LC from GATs and Golden Goose except for pairs which deviate from the standard ones (flawed pretty much). Just for a second opinion and also because I think it's beneficial to still see how often pairs are bad/if the batch might get worse over time instead of kinda censoring it.
  • Production updates from sellers of their batches, new releases, reviews and threads that generally benefit the community and offer new content will still be allowed!

What I need your help for:

I pretty much want as much information as possible and a few individuals who are very knowledgable on either one of these brands to help with a detailed guide on QC/Lcing. If you know a lot, please DM me personally or write a comment below :)

If you have a batch in-hand, please also leave a comment with the sizing and a short review. The more people who give feedback the better the megathread will be.

Thanks a lot everyone!

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u/kalekroket — 8 days ago

[Discussion] Feedback on how the recommended seller list should be structured.

Hey everyone,

I've been working on the recommended seller list, which is going to be a replacement to the current trusted seller list. I've already spoken a bit about it in my previous feedback thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/stockholmreps/comments/1vcrw6d/discussion_the_future_of_this_subreddit/

But I wanted to ask a few more things which I am unsure about still.

I have three designs at the moment:

https://preview.redd.it/cht5f4oqhjoh1.png?width=1404&format=png&auto=webp&s=498677d5d569d30c93de81201d5e8e4dc9e09c64

This one is relatively simple.

https://preview.redd.it/4ysz8ntuhjoh1.png?width=1404&format=png&auto=webp&s=ae9822af3ce0765e4b342e648c5e1cae7f2e45b8

This one has the seller name and store separated, and doesn't include the social medias column. This would most likely be included in the notes in this case.

Should the brands be included in the notes, or should they be in a separate column? I could also leave them out completely.

https://preview.redd.it/oxfvkf93ijoh1.png?width=1402&format=png&auto=webp&s=2e0e04241b450228d57ce73e815ad8aa5049cc03

Last option is very minimalistic. Not sure to only include must know stuff about the seller or also include the brands they are recommended for, if they offer direct and if they are a reseller.

Let me know which one you prefer the most, it helps me a lot.

The new list will also include a separate table for middlemen. I want the ratings to be based on as many reviews as possible, so please let me know which middlemen you have bought from in the past and how the experience was. Bad and good.

Thanks for the help everyone :)

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u/kalekroket — 1 month ago

[Release] CashMade's second batch of Golden Goose Superstars

These released yesterday, but I'm posting this here since not all of you are in the Discord. Here is a link to his Discord and Yupoo

https://cash-made.x.yupoo.com/albums/220312154?uid=1&isSubCate=false&referrercate=5134846

Text copied from his Discord:

link:https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?ft=t&id=1058459958111

Price:429 CNY Ships within 3 days.

This is our second production batch. Over the past two months, we basically went back to the beginning, took the entire shoe apart, and rebuilt it step by step. Because we fully disassembled the retail pair, we can now ensure that every individual part of the shoe matches retail, including the lining materials, internal components, and all other materials. Everything was custom-made based directly on the pieces removed from the retail pair, so the accuracy is very high. The main updates are:

  1. Toe shape This was one of the most common points of customer feedback, so we completely adjusted the toe shape.
  2. Heel shape & padding We redesigned the heel curve and also replaced the internal heel foam with padding that matches the same specifications as retail.
  3. Foxing / sole wrapping material We completely replaced the material used for the sole wrapping strip. The new material looks better and gives a cleaner overall finish. The new wrapping material now matches retail.
  4. Shoelaces We also custom-developed new shoelaces. The color was matched directly to retail, and the material is 100% pure cotton, with no other fibers blended in.
  5. Overall shoe shape The entire shoe now goes through three rounds of shaping, including both high- and low-temperature treatment. This gives the finished shoe a much cleaner shape and a better overall closure and silhouette.

Several of the colorways we’ve developed are already entering production gradually. If you’re interested, you can place your order in advance. We’ll continue producing and releasing a limited quantity each day.

u/kalekroket — 1 month ago

[Discussion] The future of this subreddit

Hey everyone, I've been wanting to change a few things around here, and I would like some of your feedback and thoughts about everything before I change something.

Table of contents:

I - Seller advertisements

II - Rewriting the wiki

III - Changes to the trusted seller list

IV - Minimizing GATs and GGDB QCs

V - Feedback

I - Seller advertisements

Over the past year or so the amount of seller advertisements has increased pretty drastically. This is natural as the subreddit has grown a lot since then. The hardest part about combatting them is that it's hard to be 100% certain if something is a seller advertisement or a honest reviewer who might not know every detail and is overly positive because of that.

So here a few ideas I've come up with that might help.

  • Only allow hauls bought directly from the seller if the seller is on the trusted seller list. If it's shipped via an agent the OP must provide proof of that as well. Could just be a screenshot from the agent's website on the order tab. Requiring a screenshot of the tracking information/package is also possible.
  • Require a certain amount of known sellers in each haul. This was suggested by this user: https://www.reddit.com/user/W8ing4forit2blowover/ a while ago now. Might work, but I've already banned a user for posting hauls that were 50% legit and the other 50% were seller advertisements, so I'm not sure how much this will help.
  • Require the account to have a history on the subreddit. This will eliminate a lot of users, but if you require each account to have been semi-regularly active on the subreddit for a few months it will decrease the amount of seller advertisements a ton.

If you have any more ideas, please let me know :)

II - Rewriting the wiki

Reddit's built-in wiki is broken a lot of the time. At first including non-hyperlinks caused half of the wiki to become unreadable as it went off-screen. Now Reddit just doesn't load the wiki properly half of the time and says it has been deleted (which isn't even possible lol). This together with the fact that most mobile users will never see the sidebar makes me want to put the wiki as a pinned post and link every thread there. This should fix both issues.

III - Changes to the trusted seller list

The trusted seller list as of right now is fine, but I personally want to add indepedendent sellers, proxies and middlemen as well. Should all of these lists be in one big megathread, or should all of them have separate threads? Should the seller list still be sorted by brands, or should it just be one big list and then the brands they specialise in be in a column? This is better if the seller sells multiple brands, but I could also just include them under multiple brands.

IV - Minimizing GATs and GGDB QCs

Too much of the subreddit are just GATs and GGDB QCs nowadays, so I personally believe that they should be limited so that more unique items can get more attention. Do you agree with this, or not, and why?

I don't think straight up banning them is a good idea, as I believe that people should be helped. The best solution I've come up with is to make a megathread for both of these brands on which sellers are the best, sizing, how to QC/LC stuff yourself etc. This should still help people and help with the subreddit clogging up with these types of posts.

If this is implemented, should posts with flaws/factories errors still be allowed? As a way of users verifying that the product is indeed a RL. Also should posts with measurements etc. still be allowed as they can help other users?

V - Feedback

If you have anything else that you want to say, please do so. If you have any ideas or other stuff that can be improved either comment so on this post or DM me directly. I will consider everything.

That's all, thanks for helping everyone :)

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u/kalekroket — 3 months ago

[PSA] The seller Poshrep is banned for seller advertisements

Hey everyone,

Over the past few months this seller has repeatedly popped up making new accounts and telling users to go to their Yupoo.

This ban means that any mention of Poshrep will be removed. If you have bought an entire haul you will need to remove him from the post as it will be removed otherwise. I do not recommend supporting these kinds of sellers anyway, especially since they just resell.

If you see a user in a thread saying something along the lines of "Poshrep yupoo" or "Available at Poshrep yupoo", please simply press the three buttons on their comment and report it for breaking the subreddit rules. I will ban the user :)

Proof for this post was kind of hard to gather since Reddit deleted almost every single account that was associated with him, so most of these will just be me showing the logs and also a few I was able to find in threads.

The evidence

https://preview.redd.it/t3ul51vl97fh1.png?width=1572&format=png&auto=webp&s=e667303c1c4b4e2fce78b14e887dd40157598334

https://preview.redd.it/8sbny81o97fh1.png?width=1506&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b507eece33a1e06c82ec636664a8113e2172f3f

https://preview.redd.it/uqs0stvp97fh1.png?width=1510&format=png&auto=webp&s=7501bdc13fc27e71f8838fb0d9273d50e5b366fe

These are the ones I could quickly find in threads saying their usual phrase. It's hard to find others since I have removed every one of them and reddit doesn't index them anymore because of that.

The comment history of all of the accounts advertising this seller are just filled with this, and no real content.

Currently there are only two accounts I'm aware of that haven't been banned by Reddit, so I will use these two to show what their post history looks like.

https://www.reddit.com/user/LowWishbone7963/ and https://www.reddit.com/user/Money_Win_6449/

https://preview.redd.it/aoxita58a7fh1.png?width=1514&format=png&auto=webp&s=9df074b1a44e7c5ba7fced6fa1a8f01d004b8b6e

https://preview.redd.it/ldz9nds9a7fh1.png?width=1462&format=png&auto=webp&s=707cd739b1b8039c0aa98da4917f78e5d2bb20ca

https://preview.redd.it/1rngs34ba7fh1.png?width=1500&format=png&auto=webp&s=52e424cfe957319ab3ae8d2e78ff3416c46365ae

https://preview.redd.it/698bkydca7fh1.png?width=1480&format=png&auto=webp&s=2d3db3ecc7f57bc24294b18115f2f3b6135fdb2c

https://preview.redd.it/eljgt8fda7fh1.png?width=1508&format=png&auto=webp&s=621d1914ee6d55e38c6dd4624eb49cb0e7b4ad49

Lastly I will show some of the ban logs to show how many accounts there have been involved with this scam over the past few months. Unfortunately it's impossible to access these accounts since they're banned now, so I can't show their comment history.

https://preview.redd.it/0myb924qa7fh1.png?width=2748&format=png&auto=webp&s=3ba566a792cf669881e9fc0073be340bcb04376d

https://preview.redd.it/9olra4voa7fh1.png?width=2758&format=png&auto=webp&s=95130aa276bef9e734f3991e5c5f665b601aac75

https://preview.redd.it/f9wp2pssa7fh1.png?width=2774&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d2e68db72cffa73f376bc4ea4b434011646cff2

https://preview.redd.it/xbk2qmbva7fh1.png?width=2762&format=png&auto=webp&s=6d6757c177dbb0700c52374c9299af8823e49908

https://preview.redd.it/0cbd40mwa7fh1.png?width=2718&format=png&auto=webp&s=7045e5e432ef70d2aeacb93ce3971f2623b5abf9

https://preview.redd.it/6a8ajrpxa7fh1.png?width=2738&format=png&auto=webp&s=3a4484ad9859d359a2d0c48df517164dc8cb0da7

https://preview.redd.it/66afbnrza7fh1.png?width=2704&format=png&auto=webp&s=114dc1e49959c1b78215b0602c826f5ecd640beb

https://preview.redd.it/5qb0nzc2b7fh1.png?width=2738&format=png&auto=webp&s=cf143c04807f24de2de17772df51addcd7121d7e

https://preview.redd.it/vsnhwqm3b7fh1.png?width=2750&format=png&auto=webp&s=ad18a72dcb5e082af217e7c7e7eb823c2270afb5

This is just from the last few months, it goes back further, but I think everyone understands now. Keep in mind every one of these accounts has a few to tens of comments all spam advertising for Poshrep.

That's all for now, thanks in advance for people who report new accounts and help me clean this subreddit up :)

- KaleKroket

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u/kalekroket — 3 months ago

[Find] Firerep Fyredwrld crocodile cardholder

Firerep has released his own clothing line consisting of blanks. One of these items is this tom ford inspired wallet you guys might like.

W2C: https://firerep.x.yupoo.com/albums/237424941?uid=1&isSubCate=false&referrercate=5100212

Via his website: https://fyredwrld.com/products/fyredwrld-croc-cardholders

Price: 153 RMB

Seller: Firerep

As a disclaimer, this is not crocodile leather. According to Firerep this is genuine leather (which is leather, but the worst quality. You can't expect much for 153 RMB though.) and simply embossed to look like crocodile leather.

u/kalekroket — 4 months ago
▲ 101 r/FashionReps+1 crossposts

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u/happy-whale- — 5 months ago