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Great story Ash !

You have Intrigue ! Security guards ….. a “ get out of town threat “ a slow speed chase …. Stack of cash ! And a girl ! Hahahahahaha

 

I never did meet her either, only heard her on the phone. The security really were just a bit precious though, its like they deep down really wanted to be real cops instead of just shoo-ing away drug seekers, and the closing the exits followed by pincer move type thing they did was a bit dramatic for two dudes just chilling in some chairs with everything pretty much out in the open. Then the kicking us out was just an overreaction to save face, if you really think someone is selling stolen goods you hold them until the real cops show up.

 

Yea there are several more queued up including more found by my mother. I only visited much less bought from about 2% of the listings she sent me but they were always such left-field strangeness that I never would have found them on my own. There are also a lot of odd ones from a period when I ran newspaper ads looking for vintage watches, so many weird people got attracted to those that I gave up on it after a few months.

 

There was a time not long after I bought it, I was working for a company in the physical precious metals trade. It paid very well but that industry is a really nasty one to be in, as nearly all of your customers are people that probably should be locked up in one facility or another and are complete scum. I wanted out of that before I had something else lined up, and what I was making from just server hosting and consulting alone wasn’t enough to pay both my bills and that of Omegaforums so I had to sell something. My absolute favorite pieces are my vintage Seamaster Piepans, and a handful of other rare vintage Omegas that I really can’t replace as there are a handful of them in the world.

By contrast there are 1969 Gemini 4s, so worst case scenario I have to pay a little more to get another some day. I still missed that watch a great deal but being modern it can be replaced, while when you sell unobtainium vintage pieces, they’re gone for good as the people you sell them to aren’t moved by money.