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Negative experience with ChazingTime - falsified timegrapher pics, non-running watch shipped.

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Ok, now this is just embarrassing. This shit has been going on for at least 6 months. I mean it sucks that I'm sure a bunch of people have been sent watches which were DOA. But we as a community should have caught this WAY sooner. At a certain point you can't blame the wolf for eating lambs if we're acting like sheep.
I totally agree and I am not trying to place blame on new users or people new to the replica game, since part of the advocate of "Trusted" in "Trusted Dealers" means we shouldn't have to be worrying about this stuff.

However, I'm reminded of two things why I always ask new members to do their own research, a little bit of reading and research before hand can go along way in preventing shenanigans.
 

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And still plastiline on Power led Someone could explain why?

I appreciate English is not your native language, but please try not to add confusion here, (see my next sentence) ....

It is NOT power LED, it is pause LED, which means it has been paused by operator on a watch that works but it still has a very high lift angle and that in turn makes the amplitude look better. The absence of a Graph line running across the TG screen corroberates this (y)

I agree 100% with @trailboss99 as to the reason for not wanting to return dud watches, (and not trying to sound like a cock) I do believe I mentioned that earlier)

This is a very serious matter, not only for us buyers, but also for the seller, although quite frankly I don't know why I have concern for him now after reading the posts since last night, especially the same TG readings from April and May !! ;)

His only reply here so far was a damage limitation excercise until I got on board after noticing the lift angle, I didn't spot the relevance of the blu tak until it was pointed out by another member

This is something that has obviously been going on for a while. A member posted their QC timegrapher pics from May, I've seen timegrapher pics with the blob of Rodico covering the LED that date back to April of this year.

This was the reason I asked for more TG evidence which we now have, was to see if the OP was an isolated incident ....

Clearly it was not and has now been proven to not be an isolated incident, it has been going on since at least April !!
So in theory it could have been years, without further evidence either way we have no way of knowing.

I think at this stage the evidence is so damning that it is time for me to say that this TD is at best a fool and personally I think he is downright dishonest and has no place on RWI TD list but that is no way my decision to make and should be left to the staff so I will STF up now !!
 

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@mods - after reading the complete case I would expect you'd marked the dealer with a note "investigation pending" to warn the potential customers - after all, it's RWI's reputation on the line too, if you don't act proactively. AFAIK @Chazingtime hasn't sorted the issue yet and until they do, they can not be trusted.
 

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@mods - after reading the complete case I would expect you'd marked the dealer with a note "investigation pending" to warn the potential customers - after all, it's RWI's reputation on the line too, if you don't act proactively. AFAIK @Chazingtime hasn't sorted the issue yet and until they do, they can not be trusted.

No idea who 'mods' is, though I'm pretty certain it's not you who makes the managerial decisions on RWI.
 

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This is why it is recommended to research the TD. Anyone considering using them should easliy stumble onto this thread. Currently it's the 4th listing on google when you search them, and of course it's easily located here on the forum. This is not a guilty until proven innocent situation. The admins are doing their work in the background. When and if there is something to report I am sure they will take appropriate action. My personal take is it doesn't look good.
 

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I appreciate English is not your native language, but please try not to add confusion here, (see my next sentence) ....

It is NOT power LED, it is pause LED, which means it has been paused by operator on a watch that works but it still has a very high lift angle and that in turn makes the amplitude look better. The absence of a Graph line running across the TG screen corroberates this (y)

I agree 100% with @trailboss99 as to the reason for not wanting to return dud watches, (and not trying to sound like a cock) I do believe I mentioned that earlier)

This is a very serious matter, not only for us buyers, but also for the seller, although quite frankly I don't know why I have concern for him now after reading the posts since last night, especially the same TG readings from April and May !! ;)

His only reply here so far was a damage limitation excercise until I got on board after noticing the lift angle, I didn't spot the relevance of the blu tak until it was pointed out by another member



This was the reason I asked for more TG evidence which we now have, was to see if the OP was an isolated incident ....

Clearly it was not and has now been proven to not be an isolated incident, it has been going on since at least April !!
So in theory it could have been years, without further evidence either way we have no way of knowing.

I think at this stage the evidence is so damning that it is time for me to say that this TD is at best a fool and personally I think he is downright dishonest and has no place on RWI TD list but that is no way my decision to make and should be left to the staff so I will STF up now !!
This Is not what u said, i have the same time grapher the light Red hidden Is on when you are into modify settings like la, frequency, graphic and more of course Is paused when u in this menu ... My comment suggest only why hiding It .... Got It???
 
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This Is not what u said, i have the same time grapher the light Red hidden Is on when you are into modify settings like la, frequency, graphic and more of course Is paused when u in this menu ... My comment suggest only why hiding It .... Got It???
STFU! You are rude and ignorant, and this is not the place to showcase your panic whining and pissy pants.
 

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It's the same Weishi 1900 that a lot of us have got, the light remains on when paused !!

GOT IT ???

I was trying to explain to you why it had blu tak !!

Best we leave this to the Mods whilst we are waiting for an outcome and or more TG evidence.

BTW @MaximillianGT is correct :p
 
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I think some of those Chazing photos of TG have had the vertical i.e. paused graph line photoshopped, guys, please if you have time take a look and see if you agree, there is a bar that is a lighter grey where the upright dashes of a paused graph would be ;)
 
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@tripdog

I think some of those Chazing photos of TG have had the vertical i.e. paused graph line photoshopped, guys, please if you have time take a look and see if you agree, there is a bar that is a lighter grey where the upright dashes of a paused graph would be ;)
That looks like the reflection of the bracelet in the screen to me.
 

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We cross posted but yes you may be right there I didn't think of that, good spot, so I could be wrong, lol often am ;)
Fact is though, there is no graph, so the machine is def paused (y)
Love those high polished bracelets!!!
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A couple of questions that I'm sure we'd all like answered ... if this was a "new" employee, is putting a blob a goo over the red light something they were "shown" how to do and that this was "normal" practice for CT ? Did this person claim to be "experienced" and so was literally left alone to do the job with no oversight ?

If this has being going on since April as another poster suggested, then the employee AND CT have just been lucky not to have been called out sooner. This is a failure of monumental proportions, not only for CT, but it stains all the other "Trusted" Dealers and calls their reputation into question too. It's a very sad situation for buyers and sellers.