hi all

Fedex UK have lost a package being sent to me, that contained a mint Grand Seiko SBGA211 ("Snowflake").

It's been missing for nearly 2 months and they've concluded that it's lost and might turn up one day, but there's nothing more they can do to look for it. In the meantime, I can only assume it's been stolen within Fedex's own network. Unfortunately, the package was not fully insured so I'm very out of pocket unless it shows up.

Please: if you see or get offered a GS Snowflake (like this - with Grand Seiko at the top of the dial, rather than near the 6 o'clock), with serial number starting 77N0xx, and it doesn't have papers, then it's quite possibly my watch, and I'd appreciate if you could let me know.



I have the GS box & papers but it was being transported in a Seiko Prospex box.

thanks
Ewan

 

Isn't the onus on the seller/shipper of the watch to have it fully insured or deal with the consequences?

 

I agree. Unless the buyer refused insurance for some reason, personally I would think it's on the seller to refund the buyer and deal with it on their end...

 

I believe that is what the seller said. He didn't fully insure it, and now he has to eat the rest....

 

So somewhere out there is a FedEx driver wearing a Grand Seiko?

I wonder how cheap he'd sell it for because that's a sweet watch.

 

OP is the buyer though. So I don't get why he would have to eat the cost. Again unless he specifically requested the package not to be insured for some reason.

 

Apologies, I read it wrong. you're right the seller needs to refund this guys money and deal with FedEx himself...

 

This is total bullshit. Who ships an expensive watch uninsured? I hate to pour salt in a wound here but the seller should have shipped fully insured and you should never have accepted anything less. What is the seller saying to you?

 

Why is it assumed to be stolen?

 

Exactly - if he wanted to save a few $ on shipping and skip the insurance, he's responsible for the loss.

Sometimes when you roll the dice in the name of skimping, you crap out.

 

That's great advice

It's assumed stolen because Fedex have been looking for it for 7 weeks and concluded that they can't find it. So either it's:
* disappeared into thin air
* sitting somewhere unexpected in the Fedex delivery hub, possibly short of its outer packaging and therefore shipping label
* being sold down the pub by a dodgy fellow as "this nice little Seiko wot I got, yours for £50"

 

“Penny wise and pound foolish” as the old saying goes.

 

Man those minute and hour hands are crisp.
FedEx has been known to loose a parcel for a few months so hang in.

So tell us how your wearing the cost @ewand

 

oh no, i do hope it shows up

 

There’s a significant part of story omitted i think.

Why ship in a prospex box?

And why does buyer already have the GS box and papers?

 

Found a couple of these for sale on Ebay.
Seller's photo looks too similar to yours to be a coincidence.
Even the date is the same.
Something stinks in Denmark.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Grand-Seiko-Snowflake-Spring-Drive-Titanium-Mens-Watch-SBGA211/173606245137?_trkparms=aid=333200&algo=COMP.MBE&ao=1&asc=55583&meid=ec59698999534e2f8ec0c5295e89358e&pid=100008&rk=1&rkt=12&sd=253993779989&itm=173606245137&_trksid=p2047675.c100008.m2219Purchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Grand-Seik...=item3b23358315:g:0YsAAOSw-a1bIFvB:rk:33:pf:0Purchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network

Could be yours is already on the block.

 

Its either the same one as the 3rd pic is same pic as the op's or just been taken off the net for the listing as the 1st pic on the listing has a different date

 

Think the OP borrowed the photo from the same place as your seller and you. ( the Internet. )

 

Maybe he has multiple accounts? Hoping one settle it faster then the other.

 

Correct, I just found a library image of a Snowflake. I'd now wonder why the seller of that Ebay item is also using a library image...