It is no secret, with rep rollies customers getting scammed in thinking buying a gen rollie. Now since rep eta's buyers will get scammed into thinking they buy eta. Indeed people are being too naive. Take rolexmans advice, expect a clone and pay for clone, not a penny more.
On the other hand, what bothers me is senior members actually defending the cartel ( for example, however there are more) or even put a nice colored feather up their butts, while fact is the white lies keep going on and is straight against why rwgforum or the orginal TRC are set up in the first place. Dont get me wrong, not saying the cartel is a scam business, probably they get scammed by the factory (because they dropshop_ and ARE willing to work if one can prove not getting what they payed for. However this should not be the customers problem in the first place. The fact that senior members beautify dealers, will raise the threshold for noobs or others for that matter, to come out. IMO resulting in an opposite effect of RWG's goals ie to prevent scamming of any kind and keep an open mind.