Someone wanted it real bad.
dsio?

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Anybody else get a bad taste from these (private) feedback bidders?
It reminds me of the "restricted" caller-id on the phone.
Anyone have good justification for any of this? I am willing to listen and learn.

Anyway, one sweet watch!

 

Several of us were watching that and chatting privately. One of the group wanted it as the final piece to the foursome of Seamaster Pie Pans, but $6K was WAY too high.

 

I was going to play, but the slice in the case,
not being able to get a hi res picture from
alex(said he didn't have any ), and some other
things, I wasn't feeling it. My mental high bid wouldn't
have been there anyway.

 

Don't forget the replaced markers on the bottom of the dial.

 

i figured ash would want it, he said so in
what he was looking for in 2014 a few weeks ago.
the no SWISS MADE bothered me, so did not
being able to match up the fonts with the Sonny Dewan resto

 

yea I saw that hue on the 5 oclock marker
couldn't figure out what that was
all about

 

I'm just waiting for Ash to grow tired of his step dial calendar

 

Here's what I don't get.
If there are so few of these out there,
why wouldn't the fonts and alignments match
up with the sonny dewan restoration featured
in Desmond's article. That doesn't compute.

 

My theory is a private bidder is a shill, and this will be relisted soon. More than theory actually, as it happened to me and I captured the item on a relist at my max bid.

But who knows for sure? The seller seems to have an unconditionally faithful group of bidders.

 

Being a conspiracy nut and an observer of human behavior around objects costing a lot of money, I put a lot of weight behind the shill theory. However, it would be a tough pill to swallow if a seller of his caliber (pun intended ) used that tactic. Not impossible, but improbable.

 

Ahh. But the private bidder is not the winner this case. He may be a shill but the final sale could be legit.

 

Hate to have to bring this out. But I think probability is he does engage in that tactic. I have been following his listings and have seen a few times the same watch has been listed more than once. Of course, it might be non-paying bidders but I need to be convinced. Just an example here.

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I wish ebay would adopt the same system as yahoo.co.jp auctions where the item is not closed until the highest bid has sat for whatever minutes unchallenged. This ridiculous last second rush is getting very old. It forces one to camp the listing on a fast connection, or invest in a sniping program for maximum impact. For ebay to call these auctions is silly, they aren't even sealed bid auctions unless you snipe.

 

To be truth I've been in situation where I am the winner on seller's auction and I have to back up due to Paypal address policy change. So above auction could be legit.

 

Don't see the value there at all and amongst the other problems the lack of swiss made at the bottom of the dial is really unattractive and cause enough for rejection