These two stores have almost identical vital statistics. artiemaster, who posts as ARTIE, has five on-topic comments out of 174 read across five threads, and no catalogued items. deateath, who trades as Taurus Reps, has five on-topic comments out of 177 read across five threads, and no catalogued items either. Both sell apparel. Both are browsed on Yupoo.
Counting comments therefore gets you nowhere. So this page does not compare the two records seller by seller. It takes all ten quoted comments together and sorts them by what kind of sentence each one actually is, which is the only sorting that separates them.
No verdict on either store appears anywhere below.
Sentences that describe a physical object: three, all artiemaster
Everything in this bucket belongs to one store. A haul poster on r/1688Reps:
Artiemaster Hoodie- really good quality, a super cozy hoodie made of soft cotton/poliester mix. I will certainly be wearing it all autumn.
u/Substantial-Tip2927, r/1688Reps, 14 September 2025
Five months later, in a thread about a 370gsm blank zip-up, an owner of two:
i've got two of the 350gsm, 52% cotton, 48% polyester ones and they are warm af and have a pretty good looking shape. you can't really go wrong with artie
u/Akuvolk, r/1688Reps, 27 February 2026
And in that same thread, someone describing the range as they understand it:
There are also pure cotton ones. Artie has a winter line which is 48% polyester because it has a fleece lining inside and a 100% cotton line which is a bit less warm for summer.
u/stablogger, r/1688Reps, 27 February 2026
Three sentences about fabric weight and blend, two of them from the same thread on the same day. That last one is a shopper's account of a catalogue rather than a spec sheet, and we have not checked it against the albums.
The deateath side of this bucket is empty. Not thin — empty. Not one comment in our record describes stitching, fabric, print, hardware, colour or fit on anything from that store.
Sentences asking how to reach the store: one each
This is where the two records match exactly. From the artiemaster haul thread:
Ive been trying to get in contact with Artie master for days bro how TF can I come tact them??? I go thr website and it takes me to Yupoo but the yupoo doesn’t have any contact info
u/Ordinary-Stand-6477, r/1688Reps, 14 September 2025
The deateath equivalent is subtler: a reply in one of their threads that answers a browsing question by pointing at a completely different Yupoo store's categories. It was captured because it sat in the same conversation, and it tells you nothing about deateath at all.
Both are the same problem. Yupoo is a photo host, not a shop, and a store page with no contact block is normal rather than broken — the ordinary route does not involve contacting the seller at all. An agent buys on your behalf, photographs the item in their warehouse and forwards it. Paste any album link into the link decoder for a working buy link, and read how to buy reps if the agent step is new.
Sentences addressed to the seller rather than about them: three, all deateath
The deateath record is dominated by people talking to the store. In a 2025 seller-list thread:
u can also try taurus i think he has some kid categories aswell but try weidian the prices are insane
u/mrshengavit, r/rep, 15 June 2025
Read narrowly, that says the commenter thinks certain categories exist and steers the reader to a different platform for pricing. It describes no purchase.
Under a thread the seller opened themselves in June 2026:
taurus can u add a swim shorts category to your website please it would be really helpful and useful
u/Salty_Appearance7832, r/FashionReps, 29 June 2026
And in April 2026, the question this whole site keeps being asked:
I see many great reviews... I'm looking for a range of some good RL stuff (men and women) .. wld taurus therefore be a good safe choice?
u/jmf1002, r/FashionReps, 20 April 2026
Our corpus holds no reply to it. Whatever great reviews that person had seen are not in our record.
A feature request is a real signal about something: it means an active store with an audience that expects to be heard. It is not a signal about quality, because it contains no claim about quality. The fifth deateath comment is an automated subreddit bot post listing beginner guides, which is not evidence of anything.
One comment sits outside all three buckets
The highest-scoring comment in either file, at 32 points, is about the absence of evidence itself. It sits under a November 2025 tracksuit review:
I remember looking for people actually wearing artie stuff before I bought and found like 1 photo, trying to make sure no one else feels my pain
u/Semiautomanual, r/FashionReps, 25 November 2025
Thirty-two people upvoted somebody saying there was almost nothing to read. That is the most honest summary of this whole page, written by a buyer rather than by us.
What the sorting does not license
The lopsided result above is a fact about our corpus, not a ranking of two stores. Specifically:
- Three fabric comments are not a quality record. They cover gsm and warmth and nothing else. No measurement, no height, no size taken, so there is no fit pattern here to lean on for either store.
- Neither file contains a failure. No refund, no dispute, no wrong size, no seller going quiet. In two five-comment samples, that is a sample size, not a service record.
- Neither store has a single catalogued item on this site. We hold no rows from either one's albums, so nothing here tells you current range or price. The brands our corpus attaches to them — essentials and fear of god for ARTIE, Arc'teryx, Lacoste, Ralph Lauren and Stussy for Taurus — come from surrounding discussion, not from a catalogue we verified.
- Comment bodies are stored truncated at roughly 300 characters. Where one ran past the cap we quoted to the last complete sentence and stopped. Our methodology documents the cut.
Both evidence pages link every quote to its thread: artiemaster and deateath. The single-seller writeups are here and here. Everything discussed is a replica, and a record this thin is a reason to order one item rather than a haul, and to look properly at the QC photos before anything ships.