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One problem I had several years ago when I first used WU, was they had a cash limit. Could only send 500.00 USD per month. I believe this was to slow down some of the problems WU was having with both online gambling and money laundering. I was sending money to my wife in Europe when she went home for summer vacation. After a couple of months as I recall, they increased the limit to something like 5k. As others have said, make sure you have the name and country right, they won't release money to someone with a different name than what is on the WU money transfer. They also need the MTCN to claim the cash. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Matt, I'm running WIN 10 and the latest version of Internet Explorer, I haven't had any problems at all. It well could be your browser. My wife clung to XP for as long as she could and finally relented and upgraded to a new computer with WIN 10. She was having the same problems on some websites, mainly because Google Chrome and IE were older versions, and she couldn't update them. Hope you get it worked out as those sorts of things are a real PITA.

Being one of the oldest folks on this forum, I am going to chime in on my take about "fakes are for fakes". I totally disagree with that premise, unless you are some guy who is overtly showing your "fake" AP,Rolex Hublot, etc. to others with the sole intention of deceiving them into something that you aren't. I would hope that there are none like those people on this forum. Most likely not, because for the most part they are not interested in watches as a marvelous miniature, intricate machine that allows us at a glance to see the time, date, phase of the moon, time in other time zones, etc. They are only interested in a watch as a symbol of their ostentatious lifestyle. I would suspect that the vast, vast majority of people who are here are proud of their watches, marvel at their design, but are as inconspicuous in their watch wearing. These are not fake people, they are not trying to deceive anyone, they wear replicas because they represent an opportunity to wear watches that they for whatever their reasons are not desirable to them in their genuine form. Possible they cannot afford the genuine, maybe it's because they have had genuine watches and are turned off by the incredible costs of repair and parts. Possibly they feel that their money can best be put to better uses than buying a 6-10K watch. Everyone has his reasons, and all are valid. Here is my experience. I have ben collecting (Accumulating) watches for probably 40+ years. I'm old enough that I bought new Rolex 1680's,1665's and Daytonas for less than 1000.00 USD each, in fact all of those were around the 500.00 USD range. Wish I had a couple of those back by the way!! Over the years, I ventured out into other brands, Breitling, IWC, Chronoswiss, Omega,Maurice Lacroix.,Ulysse Nardin are the ones I remember and can recall the exact watches. During that time, I ventured into Replicas, first joining a rep forum way back during the days of the old TRC. One thing that put me off gens at that time was the cost of repair and the lengthy time involved. I remember A Breitling Chronomat that every time I sent it in for repairs (twice) they wanted to change things that didn't need changing and the repair bill was in excess of 300.00 USD. That was a lot in 1988! Another was a Chronoswiss that required a trip back to Germany and was gone for 3 months. All in all I could see that the costs of maintenance on some of these somewhat finicky watches was not where I wanted to go. I eventually sold almost all my genuine watches and replaced them with replicas. Way cheaper and just as accurate and dependable. A few years later, I had a bit of a falling out with reps, primarily because at the time I was mostly dealing with Rolex and after purchasing them, I spent a good bit on making them nice frankens, the usual genuine crystal, insert, crown, reluming, replacing the rep bracelet with gen bracelets/endlinks. I was really happy with the results, however when it came time to sell one, no one wanted to pay much over the price of the original watch, so usually when one sold, I took a beating. this is still the same today, however I feel like folks today are more willing to pay for what was done as well as the original price of the watch. Over the years, I have totally enjoyed my reps. I never try to hide that they are reps, although I find that the vast number of folks are totally disinterested in watches in general. Most cannot tell a Rolex from a Timex!! Maybe that's a good thing as it probably prevents undue watch scrutiny. I still have a good many genuine watches, which alas, get very little wrist time. I have a gen Rolex 16610 that has not been on my wrist for probably 2 years. Why do I keep it? Probably to pass on to my son or grandson who both like watches. A few others get a little wrist time. Probably my Rolex 16750 gets the most, primarily because of it's GMT function. And finally, if you are worried about wearing replicas, then I have two pieces of advice. First, don't try to pull off something that is a well known expensive piece. Even though there have been lots of threads here about folks who don't look the part actually being able to afford a expensive genuine watch, in real life there are not that many young guys who are going to be able to afford a 100K watch at age 20. Certainly there are some, but by and large their numbers are pretty small. So if you are going to college and delivering Pizzas part time, unless your family owns the Pizza chain, don't try to pull off the unpulloffable. Second if you truly want to fly under the radar, wear "unknown" brands, or at least models of brands that look like a lot of other watches. My AP FC diver looks like about a thousand other "Black" watches that you see everywhere from drug store watch displays, mall stores to chain jewelry stores. Also, watches from those "unknown" brands. There are so many genuine boutique brands and even larger more recognized brands that are to the general population, unknowns. If you want to see how popular and widespread a brand is, go to the genuine website and click on dealers. Some of the genuine brands have almost no dealers in the USA. Watches like Linde Werdelin for instance have a grand total of five dealers in the USA!! and of these five two are in the Phoenix area and one in Florida. What do you think your chances are of seeing someone with a genuine LW are? Pretty slim. Same with others that some of us would consider pretty popular. A good example is Blancpain. And old brand with a pretty established history especially with their vintage dive watches from the 60's and 70's. Blancpain has about 36 retail establishments over the entire USA, about half of those a Tourneau, which to me is sort of a watch supermarket. So again, pretty slim chance that you are going to see your Fifty Fathoms walking down the street or in a restaurant/bar. So, finally to all you fine forum members out there, wear your replicas in good health, and for whatever your reasons, I feel certain that you are as comfortable wearing them as I am.

Gotta say boss, this looks really nice! Hope we can spur more folks into ponying up a few bucks for VIP memberships.

Just got this one yesterday. Sold an LW Spidolite FC "Green", just a bit too busy for me. Got this one on an smp_lovers strap. Very comfortable. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

WOW!!! talk about thread resurrection ! This is a 9 year old thread. Maybe good to bring it back to the top. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@Daytona 1984 just posted a photo spread of his franken , right here on RWG!! About one or two threads below this one. It's a gorgeous watch, but as was said, these AP FRANKEN projects are not for the faint of heart!! Luck and a deep pocket of cash are very helpful as well. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I agree. You aren't' going to get rich doing it, and you may well find that as was said above you are working for slave wages. Probably why a lot of folks start these businesses and after a while just shut everything down. There will always be a market for high quality well made products. Price that Edge quoted are certainly well within reason if the quality is there. They actually are a bargain compared to OEM. Straps. OEM prices are crazy!! It's completely silly to pay 500-700 USD for a strap, but that's what some of the high end watch manufacturers are charging for replacement straps. Realistically, the niche market is the only possibility. You sure as heck can't compete against the EBay sellers, I checked on EBay today, and they have pages of supposed "Alligator" straps selling for less than 50.00 USD including shipping. While I am very skeptical as to what species of animal the strap came from, they are probably fine for the average guy looking for a cheap strap. Keep up the good work Edge, I feel sure you will do well. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Edge, I could use a nice Matte black Alligator for my Rolex Day/Date !! Should you decide to start making them commercially.

Interesting!!

Guys, just a reminder. If you buy from non-trusted dealers, the administrator/mod crew will not intercede. We have no relationship with these folks and you are on your own. I would advise anyone who is buying from a dealer who is not a trusted dealer here or on one of the other rep forums such as RWI or RepGeek, do your due diligence before placing and order. Another thing, If you do chose to order from "Unknowns" at least use a form of payment that can be reversed.

Edge, Those look great!! I believe you will have a market for those. Also think about a 23mm X 20mm for the BP FF!!

How about Ssteel? He's in the EU or close to it, correct?

That sounds very intriguing. I would bet that when this is perfected, the Chinese rep makers will jump all over it. It would be a great way to replicate some of the movements that are beyond the economic boundaries today, such as the AP sec@12 chrono movement, a good 3135 or 3135 GMT. I would bet that a lot of the AP guys would willingly pay a couple of hundred more for an AP rep that was dimensionally correct, stable movement, etc.. Lots of in house movements that could be duplicated, then you would have a rep that is good on the outside as well as good on the inside!!

I've had all my problems downloading photos from my computer, not Tapatalk. I use the drag and drop using files from my photo album, not a third party like photobucket. I believe some of the problem is coming from the forum software AFA photo downloads are concerned. we are the only forum that supports direct downloads from your photo files, everyone else forces you to download photos into a third party program and then copy the URL from the third party site. It takes me 10X as long to post a sales thread on RWI or RepGeek than it does here. What is funny is it's totally random. I might pull up 5 photos to download into a thread, sometimes four download and one fails, sometimes one downloads and the other four fail. One thing I have noticed is once you have one fail, then all the rest will fail too. I have been posting the thread with the downloaded photos, get completely out of that forum, come back, hit edit and then try to download the photos that failed. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sure creates a problem if you need to download photos.

Some of the dealers may be able to get you one with diamond markers. Just send them and email and ask. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

My problems have been trying to download photos using my desktop computer, not Tapatalk. I'm running W10 and Int. Exp, latest version. what is crazy is the download fails are random, I might have 5 photos to download and 3 will download OK then the other 2 fail ???

Thanks freddy, those were the good old days I suppose. Everybody carried rifles or shotguns in their vehicles, not for protection, for hunting. After school, walk a slough and jump shoot a few ducks, maybe pot a couple of squirrels or rabbits! We were outside every waking moment, and we didn't need 3D video games to keep us busy, our dads saw to that!! And you best not think about getting in trouble in school, first the principal was and expert at corporal punishment, and then when you got home, you faced the wrath of mom and pop!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Those were the days!!! 35 cent gas, muscle cars and rock and roll! What more could you ask for? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I've had the same problem lately. Just started a few days ago. One or two would load and then I would start getting that same error 200 "download failed". Sometimes you can post your thread then use "edit" to add more photos, sometimes that works. The most foolproof, but a real PITA is adding them like Stu said, use Tapatalk, hit the picture icon and add them like that. Problem for me is the damn photos on my IPhone are so small, I have a hard time selecting the correct ones. Possibly create a new folder in your "photos" on your phone, put only the ones you want to use in your thread in that folder add them to your thread and then delete the folder on your phone. The real solution is to find out why this is happening and fix it!! I'm not a big fan of patching and workarounds, except as a temporary fix while the problem is being solved permanently. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Good to see you here. If you are looking for a good datejust then mymanmatt is the "go to guy" for them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Congratulations on a job well done. Certainly is a skill that not many of us have. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Looking really hard for a Blancpain Fifty Fathoms V1. Already have the Rose Gold and Blue Dial, need the Black dial!! Other than that I'm trying to cut down on numbers, just so darn hard to decide what to sell!! Oh, just forgot I have a LW "the One" white dial incoming!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Absolutely, that was the best "out the box" 16613 around,and probably still is. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Agree, Certainly would be interesting to "go to the source"!! See what he has and what he says.