I had a friend looking to rent a furnished apartment in my town for a year. He kept sending me links to CL listings and asked me to look into them. The photos were always legitimate, but I was shocked to learn that almost all of them were scams. I would contact the person listing the property, and they would say that unfortunately they couldn't show me the unit because there were tenants there, but I could stop by and look at the outside. Their responses were often written in awkward English. When I'd follow up and ask to meet with them in-person, they were always out of town. In almost every case, after a few days the listings were removed.
So even legit photos of watches need to be treated with great skepticism on Craigslist. The same is true for Chronocentric for that matter. On two occasions, I have seen two of my own watches listed for sale there, with photos taken from my IG feed. In both cases, people contacted me on IG because they recognized the watch ... "Are you selling this watch? I saw it listed in Chronocentric."
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