Pugwash

Coo, how are you getting on with the Paypal APIs?

Let me just say I'm working on a paypal integrated ... something ... that has an inventory system and it's non-trivial. Interesting and chellenging, yes. Trivial, no. It's all to do with verifying that the person actually goes through with the payment, and doing so without hosting anything with paypal. There's a set of APIs and they are not drop-in. It's not something you can do on a regular bit of free webspace. You need CGI/DB access. Hello, Reg! Fancy meeting you here.

It's funny, but Neil is the dealer here most capable of defending himself, yet there are always people willing to stand up and defend him, like you or me. It's not like he needs it. Maybe once anyone has seen him work at making something right, you understand that while he may be on his own timetable, there's not a scamming bone in his body, and his product is of exceptional quality.

Or the telecoms industry ...

That's not how Neil works. Neil says "I have this watch" and puts a buy now button on it. Obviously, he has to sleep sometimes, as the blood of virgins that sustains him still means he needs 2 hours of sleep-like-torpour hanging from the rafters of the Thai Boxing arenas he haunts. While he 'sleeps', someone else can come along and click the buy now again. In this case, Neil usually refunds the person immediately, but on occasion may say "Want me to look one out for you?" The difference is, in my opinion, vast.

No.

Eh? Worked fine here. Maybe everyone else is so used to the old RWG1 being fubar all the time that they think every page should be out of order half the time ...

Still sounds a far cry from a Codex-Rolexus passed in secret amongst the trained cogniscenti ...

So, the watch is wrong and that's not what you're seeing ... The obvious one is the huge ticking second hand in the wrong place. I can't imagine what else it can be.

Serial Number, Service History ... you know immediately. Authentication isn't that difficult, just time-consuming.

... and this is where the whole 'secret book' theory falls apart. When Old Man Smithers the watchmaker pops his clogs, the weekend trainee could easily swipe the Codex-Rolexus and sell it to a chinese factory for a month's wages. No-one would be any the wiser and we'd all know about this book.

Take your pic. Chrono hand instead of seconds-at-9 on a 7750 or a ticking quartz hand. Either will do, I expect.

Reread the original post. He's not talking about the service manuals, but he's talking about a mythical magical rep-spotter guide. Really? Try google or p2p. There are manuals everywhere.

The G movements were out end of May, and the H movements are right behind them, from what I hear.

As far as I know, yes.

I went to get my copy by using the secret military tunnels under the city, but the alligators in the sewers that had grown huge by eating the blind white pigs fought me off.

At the end of this month, I'd be surprised if the H movements still had non-functioning swan's necks.

For fun? That site was built by people with enough info on the rep trade to screw a lot of people who think they know what they're getting. Saying "7750b1" instead of Swiss-copy, for instance, makes you feel like they may have what's pictured. I'd be surprised if the people behind that site weren't here, or called Blade.

Simple stuff first: Their domain is managed by kioss.com, in Indonesia. Kioss appears to be an Outsourcing outfit. The site is hosted by Liquid Web Inc, allegedly in the US. The domain was registered anonymously. Less simple now. Their mail server responds as liquid.mmanaged.com and mmanaged is part of kioss. The server does appear to be in the US. The mail server is running Exim, for what it's worth. The server is a standard LAMP server, with the usual external services running. The server is running SSL, but the https virtualhost is broken, serving only insecure http pages on port 443. That's all for now, but it's a start. Looks damned scam-like to me.

I'm in Paris and I've not found one yet.

(I fixed the link above) Their pics are definitely of reps and not gens ... but $175 for a GST Chrono?

"Do a fun thing, like hide the spice bottle"

See, I thought that too. I thought he's seen my most recent batch of pics and is finally getting a little scared and it's making him make mistakes ... and then I realised I've kept accidental reflections in when I've felt they help show the form of the crystal. Now, Neil being Neil, he probably intentionally used a light that would reflect enough to show the crystal's curveature without destroying the detail.

The replica sites were set up to protect people from the fraud sites. Paulmart, after his crasysale fiasco, returned here with great gusto, bribing people with watches in return for good reviews. It immediately meant reviews of Asspire could no longer be trusted. No-one cared, as long as Paulmart was promising low prices, people were too forgiving. I decided to act in the spirit of the replica sites and remind people of this, repeatedly, so they were informed when reading reviews. Since then, he's stepped up his marketing with a bit of bait-and-switch followed by a relentless campaign bad-mouthing other dealers. I have no axe to grind, but this community is far too forgiving and what we let slide today bites us in the ass tomorrow. I'm just here to keep the scores even, that's all. PAULMART "Because bribery is easier than quality"

Still, nice to see you admit to having no balls.