Gift for my wife's upcoming birthday

gwzymytk

My reply has nothing to do with the watch in question or the way it will be appreciated as a gift, since his only real question is directed to the item's location.

If a watch is well-described, comes from someone with significant past positive feedback and pictures are good enough to show any imperfections I wouldn't worry that much about returning it, since both eBay and PayPal almost exclusively work in favor of the buyer, irrespective of the seller's location.

Just out of pure curiosity (being a Romanian also adds to my repulsion towards this kind of "progressive western thinking"); how many of you were actually conned by Romanian buyers/sellers?

If I am to recall my personal experience with a few sellers and buyers from Italy, Germany, the US and the UK, I can easily give the same "run for your life" advice to a Nigerian fellow scammer: defective watches bought from all four countries, non-paying buyers from the last two, outright scamming attempts from the US (twice).

In short, my advice: always buy the seller; with all this misconceptions going around, if a seller from an "iffy" location managed to establish a name for him/herself then it's even more likely the transaction will go OK.