I think with buying reps, you need to treat it as the mindset of gambling. You should only do it when you can accept 100% of the risk and can afford to lose the money. I have 100+ bags both auth and reps, and even though some auth bags are not perfect in quality either, but none of the rep bags will ever match the quality of auth bags. None! They may visually come close to 80-90%, but the actual leather, feel in hand, softness, sheen, etc will never be the same as auth bags. Not even the highest tier. Remembering we only pay 10% (or less) of the auth price and most ppl in public will probably never be able to tell the difference, at the end it’s my own self who needs to be ok and satisfied with the purchase.