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Hi T Sorry, not today. The regular RWG skin has been removed for maintenance and is unavailable. I'll see if I can set it up as a backup skin or something, so that you can choose it

Well, as you can see, we have been in the basement, blown some dust of some old boxes and picke out our christmas decoration. We hope you like it. (If you don't you can use the drop down menu at the bottom left to change back to the winter theme. Due to refurbishing, the RWG theme will no be available for a month or so. It will return in a new and improved flavour Because of this refurbishin there might also be some services that will be unavailable for shorter periods of time. These will hopefully all be back when we have finished our work. Christmas lotteries Every week until christmas we will be arranging a new lottery. This first week, we have 70 tickets available. The next weeks we won't have any limit. We will make 500 tickets available every week and then draw a winner at the end of the week Many of the dealers have said yes to sponsor prices and others we have not asked because they have already contributed many times earlier. No matter what, we would like to thank ALL our dealer for being a part of our great hobby. This weeks prizes: http://lottery.rwg.cc/prizes.php Click the banner or use this adress: http://lottery.rwg.cc to go to the lottery. If you have not participated in the lottery, you this is what you have to do; 1. Register http://lottery.rwg.cc/register.htm Fill in your preferes username and a REAL e-mailadress. Our automated lottery script sends the winner notification e-mail to the adress you have provided here 2. Log in http://lottery.rwg.cc Enter the username and e-mailadress you just registered 3. Select your ticket numbers. By holding down the CTRL-button, you can select as many as you want. 4. Pay Continue to pay via paypal 5. That's it. Now cross your fingers and wait. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RWG Christmas Gift Just another link for the donation button, for all of you who think RWG has been a really good kid this year. All x-mas gifts will be listed on our donations page. I think that's about it for now. If you have any questions, feel free to contact a RWG crew member Enjoy. T

Like I have said before; The current number of paying members does not cover the monthly costs of the current server setup. If I was to pay the costs of the site out of my own pocket, I would close it immediately. I could never afford it. I did this without any problems when the site was hosted on $20-50 pr. month servers. I've also said this before, but a site like this, that generates over 15.000.000 hits per month, using a database intensively, and has anything from 120-200GB of traffic each month can't use a cheap shared hosting solution. The ISP would simply tell you that they can't host you and you would need to find a dedicated server with the traffic RWG has. We would simply use all the resources on the server. A little story: I first got into the replica forums 4-5 years ago. The first forum opened up 4 years ago (TRC). It was then hosted on a server I had in the US, on one of my subdomains. This went fine, until I got the first legal notice from Rolex (GAF) that I had to shut down. My ISP also gave me 48 to remove the site. That's when I first registered the TRC domain and found another server. After hosting in on cheap US shared servers (For those of you who do not know what a shared server is: it's a server that several customers share) for a long time, I got tired of getting the same legal notices every other week + the traffic was growing fast, so I looked for other solutions. Offshore servers was the way to go, but these things are expensive. A shared server was enough in the beginning, but as traffic grew, I outgrew the shared solution and had to find a dedicated offshore server. Finding a quality provider with little or no downtime wasn't easy. And it's the same in the server industry as elsewhere: quality does not come cheap. But after running replica forums for 4 years now, I have found a setup that I am comfortable with and that I feel gives both me, as the admin of these sites, and the members, the protection that is needed. The Google ads are there to cover some of the cost with the site. They don't provide much, since people seem to forget to click the ads they find interesting, but they are a part of what keeps me from paying for things out of my own pocket. When it comes to the issue of the ads displayed, I have no control of them. Google adsense displays ads based on the content of the site. But if you see an ad for any scam sites, please send me the link, and I will block them from any more displays here.

The numbers on running this site has been posted several times before and have been discussed. You can have a look at these two threads: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=10988 and then read this http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=12379 If you have any more questions, feel free to contact me directly

If this is your first purchase, I would go for the 2 asian. Nothing less satisfying thatn having only 1 watch to wear Jokes aside: The asian watches are usually a great place to start and usually gives you a lot of "bang for the bucks"

shhhhh....I told you it was a secret....

Well, we're patiently awaiting more posts about how much you love RWG and how it has change your life (usually for the worse, economically .) There is still time to write that PoM winning post.

The seahawk gets my vote. There are more than enough Rolex/IWC reps out there

Come here, both of ya'

Times do change TRC still holds the record of most members online at the same time; 467

This thread is out of order. Please us the other thread or use the stairs.

Personally I just bought a x-box 360. Was considering both the WII or wait for the Delaystation 3, but decided on the 360. Any other X-box 360 owners here?

Let's keep on topic, guys. Not all members her are members at RWI so not everybody will know what you guys are refering to.

Pho, I know just what you mean with the first couple of lines in your post. I've got a Korg Triton synth standing right beside me here. Bought it 2-3 years aog to really start making music.......well, it looks like I am better at creating forums

Not enought posts??? I might have to redirect you to "The shortest thread ever" in the off topic section.... oh...just logged on...been away for 8 hours....4 new pages of posts....yep....people needs to start posting more!

Fixed

I'm not going to comment on RWI and the reasons they do this, but RWG will not be endorsing any particular dealers, as this will most likely lead to suspicions on the reasons for doing this, no matter what your reasons are. Like the previous posters have said, there is no doubt that both Joshua and Andrew are great dealers, but the opinion of a dealere is all in the eye of the beholder. We all have our own personal opinion about who is the best dealer and this forum is here to provide information so that people can make an informed decision on who to buy a replica from, maybe even buy a replica and then decide who is the best dealer for them. What is a 5 star dealer to you might be a 2 or 3 star dealer to someone else. And just for the record: At RWG we have a dealer section where every dealer pay to have his own section. But just because they pay a fee, does not mean that RWG endorse these dealers. The fee is there to fund the operation of RWG, like the RWG supporter fee. Since they pay a higher fee, they get their own section here, and they can do all their advertising there. If a dealer starts to get a lot of bad feedback, the dealer will be removed. This was the case with puretime a while back ago. Puretime had some personal problems and could not keep up with his obligation to his customers. So he lost his dealer section here at RWG. Because of our policy of only allowing 12 watchdealers, he has been in line for a spot here ever since he came back and had all his problems sorted out and all his "old" customers had received everything he owned them. This is also the reason we only allow 12 dealers; we try to only have dealers that you can trust. If we wanted to, we could probably have 20-30 dealers here. I get at least 1 PM/e-mail every week from somebody who want's to sell their watches here. But the dealers contacting me have the same watches we already have access to here. Nothing new. So why let them in? Sure, they might be able to offer you a slightly better price, but I think we all know by now that most of the time it is worth paying the extra $5-10 to the dealers we have here. We know them, we know they will deliver and they deliver beautiful watches. And if something is broken or wrong, they will take care of you.

My bad...was adjusting some settings on his dealer forum and I managed to move it to another part of the forum. It's back now.

I like it !

Nope....there are many good ideas. But because of a forthcoming software upgrade and forum upgrade, none of the ideas have been incorporated so far...but in a little more than a month....you will see some changes

Devander, the hosting setup of RWG has been covered in several threads, but I'll give you the short version here. If this website was legal and everything going on here, legal, it would be no problem using "regular"hosting. Well, it's not. And because of the traffic RWG gets, it's not enough with a cheap shared solution. RWG is running on it's own dedicated, offshore server to be able to handle the 12-15 million hits it gets every month. In addition to this, there is a smaller, dedicated server set up as a reverse proxy to hide the real location of the server. These things cost money and offshore hosting is expensive (don't ask me why...) And ads...well, if members clicked the ads more than they do, parts of the bills could be covered by ads...but this has also been covered earlier in this thread, if I am not wrong....and regarding your logic about pictures...what would a forum like this be without the pictures. Members have a small amount of storage space...when it's used, they can either upgrade their membership and get more storage space or they can use offsite storeage solutions T

Hmmm...wasn't aware of this and unfortunately it's not much I can do about it. They don't have any settings that will take into consideration the country you are based in and then display ads that will ship to your country.

Just a really short update: There will be a large forum update just after new years and a lot of the ideas in this thread will be incorporated. The economy is ok for now since we have members paying a larger fee for the 1 year membership and I can use this money now, but because of this, the forum will run out of money again in the future. To keep things running smoothly we need about 10% of the forums membership to be RWG supporters. Currently it is at the same level it has been for a long time, about 7.8%. It's either this, or people start clicking the google ads like crazy or buy TONS of stuff from amazon using the ads here There will also be a couple of new lotteries now and then, so hopefully this will also provide some money to RWG.

Well, the board software will be updated in a not so far future, and as far as I know, this bug has been fixed. So for now, you will have to wait