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$900,000 for a Calibre 33.3 Chrono on the bay

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$900,009.10 with shipping. 😁
If shipping was included I might have considered it but I’ll have to pass.
 
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It’s 18k so probably a solid 300 bucks worth of gold makes that 900k a little easier to swallow. If you were to hold that watch for 300-400 years you’d probably have 400k’s worth of gold
 
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Seller loses what 25% to eBay? Plus buyer pays somewhere around 50k in taxes? When I hit powerball for 500,000,000 I’ll give that watch a second look.
 
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Hmmmm…


it’s a tough choice.


Unless that grand piano is included, I’m going for the watch.
 
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A mere bag of shells. They’re all selling? BUY! 😁
 
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Unless that grand piano is included, I’m going for the watch.
I’m willing to bet if you pay asking, they would throw it in. Unlike the ass-hat asking 900k for a watch and is still going to charge $9 for shipping.
 
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Ahh right, I remembered the thread about it going up and thought 25% instead of 12%. I didn’t notice the thresholds to where it drops too. Good to know incase I ever stumble on a $900,000 watch I want to sell.
Apparently you don’t need to stumble across it, just throw something up for 900k see what happens.
 
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Sale has ended, already on its way to the authenticator. All good.
 
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Should have gone straight to the “FS posts with unrealistic asking prices” thread! 🤦
 
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I’m willing to bet if you pay asking, they would throw it in. Unlike the ass-hat asking 900k for a watch and is still going to charge $9 for shipping.

At $990k that house is actually a bargain to be honest...at least just from the photos.
 
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At $990k that house is actually a bargain to be honest...at least just from the photos.
Baltimore is surprising like that, it’s probably one of the last affordable East Coast cities in which to live (and Roland Ave is one of the premier streets in the city).
Baltimore’s prime period of prosperity was 1860’s- 1970, followed by rapid urban flight and a lack of reinvestment. That combo leads to a preservationists best friend…a huge pool of quality architecture and lack of funds to redevelop…so it’s all still here.
It’s why I have worked in DC for 20+ years and take the train down (1.25hr commute door to door). That same $900k in DC would buy you a 1.2k sq/ft condo. The market has been stagnant here for decades but since covid, we are seeing a huge uptick of Washingtonians moving up as they realize that if they only need to commute to the office 1 or 2 days a week, why live in an 80’s condo when you can have a Victorian mansion.
What was once a manufacturing and shipping town is now predominately academia and medical. If you work in those sectors- it’s lush living here. But sadly much of the industrial economy that built the city is gone and the people who were reliant on it (uneducated blue collar labor) live in squalor.
 
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Baltimore is surprising like that, it’s probably one of the last affordable East Coast cities in which to live (and Roland Ave is one of the premier streets in the city).
Baltimore’s prime period of prosperity was 1860’s- 1970, followed by rapid urban flight and a lack of reinvestment. That combo leads to a preservationists best friend…a huge pool of quality architecture and lack of funds to redevelop…so it’s all still here.
It’s why I have worked in DC for 20+ years and take the train down (1.25hr commute door to door). That same $900k in DC would buy you a 1.2k sq/ft condo. The market has been stagnant here for decades but since covid, we are seeing a huge uptick of Washingtonians moving up as they realize that if they only need to commute to the office 1 or 2 days a week, why live in an 80’s condo when you can have a Victorian mansion.
What was once a manufacturing and shipping town is now predominately academia and medical. If you work in those sectors- it’s lush living here. But sadly much of the industrial economy that built the city is gone and the people who were reliant on it (uneducated blue collar labor) live in squalor.

One of my many regrets is a three story stone row house we did not but on Kentucky ave near Lincoln park. It was 160k in about 1995. We were renting on C street near the Supreme court and wanted to buy. We bought a little cape cod in Riverdale near College park instead of the townhouse.

If course, we probably would still have sold it and moved to Portland in 2000. But I can't believe how much houses are now, both here and DC. I recently got nostalgic and thought maybe we'll move back to DC. It's got to be cheaper than the NW. HAH!

living on C street was nice. We used to walk to the Capital and sit on the steps at night, staring down the Mall. All the workers went home. It was very quiet and felt like a small town. The Tune in and Dew Drop were small pubs within a few blocks. Good memories.
 
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Baltimore can be beautiful but like most large cities in the US, can be less than a mile away from some horrible conditions.

I went to an Irish beer festival (fairly certain it wasn’t Saint pattys day) maybe 15 years ago. Was a lot of fun, fairly certain I made a few stops in the bushes while getting home.
 
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Baltimore is surprising like that, it’s probably one of the last affordable East Coast cities in which to live (and Roland Ave is one of the premier streets in the city).
Baltimore’s prime period of prosperity was 1860’s- 1970, followed by rapid urban flight and a lack of reinvestment. That combo leads to a preservationists best friend…a huge pool of quality architecture and lack of funds to redevelop…so it’s all still here.
It’s why I have worked in DC for 20+ years and take the train down (1.25hr commute door to door). That same $900k in DC would buy you a 1.2k sq/ft condo. The market has been stagnant here for decades but since covid, we are seeing a huge uptick of Washingtonians moving up as they realize that if they only need to commute to the office 1 or 2 days a week, why live in an 80’s condo when you can have a Victorian mansion.
What was once a manufacturing and shipping town is now predominately academia and medical. If you work in those sectors- it’s lush living here. But sadly much of the industrial economy that built the city is gone and the people who were reliant on it (uneducated blue collar labor) live in squalor.
It’s really heartbreaking to see documentaries of Baltimore and Detroit, along with many other US cities from what they were to what they are now. They both of course still have very nice areas but how quickly a thriving area can take a turn is astonishing.
I have a lot of questions about the current housing market as well. The city in which I work property values have gone up 38% in one year with an expected 10% to come this year. It has made finding affordable housing a nightmare but most of that is due to the eviction moratoriums which just keep getting kicked down the road and I don’t think any one knows how this is going to play out. Yet my wife has one of those REIT’s and for quite some time it performed very well, just recently it’s taken some major hits due to covids impact on industrial and commercial real estate. It surprised me as all I hear is how hot the real estate market is but as always there is more to the story. You can’t take everything these Analysts say to heart but I’m often reading an “08” type crisis looming when the moratorium can comes to the end of the road. I have heard rosier predictions by others so who the hec knows. It certainly is concerning but you can’t sit around worrying about what’s to come right, sufficient for the day are the troubles of the day. Oops long babble need watch shot.
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