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A long and strange RFP based approach to requesting a service on a watch

STANDY
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Post a watch off and it gets serviced. Stuff needs fixing I want it fixed.
Drop a car off and it gets serviced. Stuff needs fixing I want it fixed.

Find a good service provider and stuff gets done without the word salad.

For the watch you want serviced…Omega would do just fine.
 
Donn Chambers
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howdy howdy
I'm in the Austin/Houston area but seems customary to mail it anywhere in US.
Korman Jewelers in Austin has Omega-certified watchmakers and can certainly service that watch for you. I had several Omegas serviced by them before I left Austin in 2009. They are also an Omega AD. Just don’t expect to talk to the watchmaker directly — they only communicate via the sales staff, which is typical of watchmakers working for jewelers, in my experience. You drop the watch off with a salesperson, they write up the ticket for the service, and they take it back. They will call you when it is done, of if extra parts are needed after the watchmaker has examined it and the original quote needs to be changed.
 
hen
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Howdy howdy, Just send it off. Worst thing that can happen are roll eyes or a good laugh. I have a feeling a watch maker won`t be as excited as some of the OF members.

Good looking triple date! 👍
 
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Thanks hen. I've learned a few things from OF folks so far, so my approach is now modified a bit. I just need to develop a relationship with a U.S. watchmaker (any state is fine) and I plan to get the watch serviced. Even after 11 years on my wrist (almost always wearing it since I bought it new) seems to me the (never serviced) 3211.30 currently performs as if new (now that I learned how to manually wind it all the way up lol). Maybe running it on automatic-wind-only for a decade has put less stress on spring? Also I am reading that continuous use makes my speedy run better. I wonder how long it can go unserviced. The more I learn the more impressive this little machine is!
 
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STANDY STANDY
Post a watch off and it gets serviced. Stuff needs fixing I want it fixed.
Drop a car off and it gets serviced. Stuff needs fixing I want it fixed.

Find a good service provider and stuff gets done without the word salad.

For the watch you want serviced…Omega would do just fine.
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hen
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Your word salad much more profound. You have a talent for stating the obvious.

No thats not the way to reply howdy. Many of OF members are highly knowleged about watches and may help you in the future. I think Standy is one of them. Others on the other hand likes to ridicule and be tuff guys to new members, rise above that and find the good guys.

The posting have been quite slow lately (?) I think we need new blood in here so treat new comers better, and dont bite back when newbies are teased.
 
alam
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I must say that the OP's approach to get his watch serviced is a bit odd - to me it would be obvious to doubt any professional watchmaker or repair center will entertain such proposal however, some of the responses the OP received were let's say ..a bit dramatic.
 
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Thx alam (and the other OF folks) for the feedback. I didn't send out that odd email. With a modified approach I've found a watchmaker and I think we can work well together. No worries on the drama it was not too much to sort through to get to some solid feedback. All good.
 
STANDY
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Your word salad much more profound. You have a talent for stating the obvious.
All about stating what you want done confidently with the least amount of words.

One thing I have learnt over many years in the game.
Most watchmakers are great watchmakers but the worst when it comes to replying to emails and usually snowed under and don’t have to sift through proposals for work.

@Archer is a watchmaker you want as far as he’s engagement and understanding. But he is a diamond in the rough.

(Man, I have received watches back from service before my email was even answered. Email was read and my wishes done but the reply was the bill several months later.
 
mjb
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I work in IT. The original post shows that AI is neither A nor I. One advantage compared to the actual writing of the OP is that at least the LLM generates properly spelled grammatically correct prose, even if it is a salad.

I'm happy that he found someone.
 
Fatcat
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Hahahahhahah looks like you are a PM ( maybe in IT 😀)) ) wrong approach completely , at the end send it to Omega they will do everything and more for the same price.

Definitively LOL today
 
R
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I hope this is a troll using ChatGTP to write a complete idiot proposal.
If it is a real person who wrote this in all seriousness, I am happy I am not married to him/her. I probably would get these rfp’s too for making the evening dinner, having fun in the bedroom, just to name a few things.
 
Larry S
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As a long time procurement professional .. this has to be a joke right?
 
rendo
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I changed my mind a couple times, but now I believe this was a social experiment.

By the way, OP is not with us anymore. The last I saw, he was deleting all of his messages in this thread, but the mods fixed that quickly.
 
Dan S
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... social experiment ...
I like this as a euphemism for trolling. We should use this term from now on. 😁
 
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