Just a quick note that thewatchery.com seems to have either themselves, or through hired third parties spammed the forum with dishonest posts using fraudulent accounts, a technique known as Astroturfing

An example of their nonsense is as follows:

The source of this, and two other accounts was this IP address:

http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/98.203.108.118

All using different hotmail throw-away accounts.

The owner of thewatchery.com appears to be:

Holdings, ILS [email protected]
ILS Holdings, LLC
101 S State Rd 7
suite 201
Hollywood, Florida 33023
United States
+1.9548953827

There's a group of sites run by the same people:
- ewatches.com
- worldofwatches.com
- thewatchery.com

Now most likely The Watchery have hired some scumbag organization to market their wares online who have acted on their behalf, in which case if they'd like to post back the name of that organization and discontinue the use of their services I'll consider that a good outcome, however in the meantime I consider their behavior to be dishonest, untrustworthy, and deceptive and recommend that prospective buyers of watches from thewatchery.com avoid them and choose another vendor.

 

And now "The Watchery" have their low-life marketing tactics forever exposed on the internets.

 

You get the feeling some SEO/SEM losers went to them and said "hey, we can get your site to rank higher on google" and they went ahead with it, not knowing that the methods used to do that involve vandalizing watch enthusiast websites...

 

Effectively yea, often they don't even know what they're paying for.

 

"The Watchery" is owned by the same people who own this web site:

http://www.worldofwatches.com/cust/contactus.asp?d=0

I know exactly where they are located. Only a few miles from me. It's an office building on a busy street. Wells Fargo Bank in the lobby type of place. I've seen the same address listed as the importer of my Vostok Europe watch (relax, it was only $30). I think they are importers for a lot of smaller brands. I can almost guarantee that they don't have inventory on site. The building just isn't large enough.

It could be that only the company's attorneys are located there. The principals could be anywhere in the world.

The internet is a wonderful thing...sometimes,
gatorcpa

 

They have everything from AP to Patek listed as "One Left" but I'm guessing that means if you order, they'll scrounge one up from somewhere up from another vendor and take a fee.

 

Did you even read the thread? It's pretty clear why they're being criticized. The Watchery created bogus accounts to publish fake customer endorsements on Omega Forums.

 

Michael Clark

Did you create an account here just to defend these companies? It seems a bit odd that this was your first post on the forum.

 

Ok...

I think you're full of shit and have some affiliation with the company. They don't seem to be too bright when it comes to dealing with internet marketing, so that would make sense.

Why else would you join Omega Forums to dig up an old thread and defend them as your very first post here? Did you even notice the last comment was from January 16th, 2013?

You seem to have difficulty understanding that they created shill accounts to post fake customer reviews, ones that were strikingly similar to the account you're posting from now.

 

FYI guys, we spam-binned a user since we believe he was affiliated with the same set of companies. If the thread feels a bit dis-jointed, it's because his set of posts defending the watchery are also gone.

 

Yande, we know you're legit. I'll sort out your account for you now.

Cheers