Both of these stores hold exactly six quoted comments in our corpus, and both have on-topic counts of six. That symmetry is the only thing about them that matches. TopSelect's record was written over five weeks in mid-2026. Fakelab's stops in May 2024, in a thread asking where he went.
What follows is a description of two evidence sets. It is not a ranking, and no verdict on either seller appears anywhere on this page.
Dates first, because dates are the whole story here
Every TopSelect comment we hold falls between 9 June and 4 July 2026, across four subreddits — r/FashionReps, r/DesignerReps, r/stockholmreps and r/RepTime — out of 93 comments on twelve posts.
Every Fakelab comment we hold is from either September 2022 or May 2024, across r/FashionReps, r/RepNewbies and r/fashionreps2, out of 149 comments on ten posts. The 2022 comments are enthusiastic. The 2024 ones are people looking for him.
A record that stops is not the same as a seller who stopped. But it is the single most useful thing to know before you read either set.
TopSelect: five positive comments, three of them one person
One buyer, u/t8r-bug, posted the same experience into two different subreddits on the same day, and then defended it in a reply. That is three of our six quotes. The core of it:
I wanted to provide an update. I received my shoes today. It was 47 says since I ordered and paid. I have to admit, the wait was well worth it.
u/t8r-bug, r/DesignerReps, 9 June 2026
The stored comment runs past our 300-character cut, so it ends mid-sentence in the data and we have stopped at the last complete one. Another commenter in the r/stockholmreps version read it as a warning rather than a recommendation:
Based on what I understood from you, TopSelect's quality is good and makes up for the waiting time. The question is whether the other seller (the cheaper one, TD) was higher quality and more satisfying? I am currently waiting for the QC from TopSelect and am considering canceling based on your information.
u/NarrowRaccoon1317, r/stockholmreps, 9 June 2026
To which the original buyer replied, in part:
I'm REALLY confused by your post. The cheaper shoes weren't anywhere close to the quality of TopSelect and certainly were NOT more satisfying.
u/t8r-bug, r/stockholmreps, 9 June 2026
The two independent voices we hold are shorter. One is about a wallet:
I bought the same item from Topselect and can confirm that it is very good quality. I use mine as a passport holder and was complimented on it by an immigration officer in Monaco just yesterday!
u/Material_Double_9690, r/FashionReps, 28 June 2026
The other is a one-liner on a Goyard luggage QC post that is mostly a joke about baggage handlers. Counted honestly, that is one buyer's detailed account, one wallet owner, and one aside.
Fakelab: a strong 2022 reputation and a 2024 silence
The 2022 thread, about a t-shirt with a 23-day wait, has the enthusiasm:
Nah fakelab got way better quality he’s the best ow seller right now don’t worry
u/Tys2k, r/FashionReps, 3 September 2022
Even there, the praise arrives attached to a complaint:
same with a tee I ordered Fakelab is the best OW seller but his shipping speeds are awful. Definitely a chance for someone else take his title lol Im all but ready to refund mine
deleted account, r/FashionReps, 3 September 2022
Twenty months later, in a thread on r/fashionreps2 titled around his disappearance:
So currently, Superbuy is also not allowing purchases from FakeLab as it’s a ‘offline’ store (not weidian/ taobao). FakeLab was responding until a couple of days ago (1 response in 2 days) but now he’s completely vanished. He promised me he’s going to send me weidian links but then no sign of him since a week.
deleted account, r/fashionreps2, 19 May 2024
A second person in the same thread asked simply whether Fakelab was responding again, having sent a WeChat request and got nothing. A third explained that "offline" is a technical status about how the store sells, not proof the seller is gone. All three are on the same thread, which is the last thing our corpus holds about him.
What neither record settles
Nobody in either set has told us how a dispute ended. The Fakelab buyer above says he was ready to ask for a refund; we hold no comment saying whether he got one. The TopSelect buyer waited 47 days by his own count and was happy; we hold nothing about an order that did not arrive.
Both stores returned zero buyable items in our scrape. TopSelect's albums carry brand tags spanning Arc'teryx, Burberry, Dior, Hermes, Loro Piana, Louis Vuitton and Zegna; Fakelab's carry Off-White and nothing else. In both cases the albums exist and nothing in them came with a marketplace link we could resolve, which matches the quoted comments describing WhatsApp and WeChat orders.
Six comments is a thin record twice over. For TopSelect it is thinner than it looks, because half of it is one voice. For Fakelab the newest usable comment is over two years old, and a store's behaviour two years ago is a fact about two years ago.
Checking either one yourself
Open the evidence pages — TopSelect and Fakelab — and click through to the threads rather than trusting our excerpts. The longer per-seller writeups are at TopSelect and Fakelab, and methodology covers how comments get collected and scored on-topic.
If an old link from either thread is dead, the link decoder reads the item id out of the URL itself and usually recovers it. First order, read how to buy reps. Everything discussed above is a replica, and every opinion quoted was formed by a buyer looking at one.