Buying a Replica - Ins & Outs
I have created this site to try warning people of all the online scams involving rolex replicas. Now the website features all replica brands, including reviews and tips. The goal is to make this page widley accesible by those who want to buy a replica, wether swiss or not to give them a better understaning of the replica world. So read through this page and you will be a step closer to saving yourself a headache and agony of being scammed by one of these sites.
I have almost bought, what I was convinced by the seller, was a swiss made watch 99.9% close to the original, with a ETA movement, a sapphire crystal and the whole nine yards. I was going to pay $580 for it, which at the time seemed pretty reasonable compared to the sites that were offering the same replica for $1100. It looked very convincing with crystal clear, high-resolution pictures and a description that seemed to cover all the bases of a real rolex watch. Being that I have bought replica watches before from street shops in china-town, and owning the real thing, as well as being a very detail oriented person, I had a pretty good idea of how they vary in quality. You can go anywhere from few miss-matches like engravings on the back, pins in the links, regular glass instead of sapphire, to the writing on the face being dull or chipped, the magnification of the date inaccurate and the movement completely junky making the second hand look more like a quartz watch then a 25 jewel sweeping movement, turning your few hundred dollar purchase into a rubbish fake.
So I did what I thought was back then a detailed search online. I wanted to consider all my options and compare all the prices to spend as little as possible getting the best quality at the same time. Sounds familiar? I arrived at a few sites, some offering Japanese copies for around $199-250 and some selling what they claimed to be the highest quality, grade AAA+ swiss made replicas ranging from $560 to $780.
I found the model I was interested in, looked at the pictures and was pretty excited to have found a watch looking more like the real rolex than a cheap fake.
I had a few concerns about the customs and shipping of the watch it self, so I went ahead and emailed the store asking how they ship the watch and if its possible to avoid paying customs or getting the watch seized. I got a pretty quick response from a lovely sales representative named Jenny, who informed me that they have shipped to my country numerous times and never had a problem. She then went on to explain how the watch is packaged in as much of an inconspicuous way as possible so that the it doesn’t get seized..
I still had my doubts and called the number they provided on the site. No one picked up… I tried again and still no answer. This got me thinking. A website charging an average of 600 dollars for their "top of the line" watches, offering 100% money back guarantee and yet can't seem to afford a live customer service team? Strange. So I started doing some research. I wasn’t able to find much feedback on the website until I came across a replica watch blog exposing it as a scam.
Apparently there are a few people who own most of the replica sites. And there is somewhat few hundred of them. They even went so far as creating rolex review sites to rate their own sites from 1-5, 1 being the worst (in this case the cheapest) and 5 the best, highest grade (by the same token the most expansive) The look very convinceing further instilling confidance in the potential buyer who thinks they are researching their potential buy.
All the sites look very professional and are designed in a very sharp, convincing manner. The shopping cart software is the same as all the other online merchant sites.
I was explained by one of the people who got ripped of that it works as follows.
You buy what you think is your brand-new swiss rolex replica and you pay for it. Within a week you get your watch, some better looking than others, but in any case none last longer than a few weeks. When it finally breaks you decide to use the money back guarantee and exchange the watch for a new one. You send your replica back to an address provided, usually somewhere in Brooklyn, and wait. You get no response. You call and the lady on the phone tells you there is nothing she can do. You try canceling youre credit card purchase and it turns out that it was sent to a unknown merchant in Russia and there is nothing that can be done… So you’re sitting at home without your replica rolex and $580 poorer…
Below I will provide all the links to the scam sites, if there is no link that means that you shouldn’t go there and that it infects with viruses.
Hopefully this site will save a lot of people a lot of money. If you want to know places to buy swiss replicas do a lot of research and visit forums.
