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LOOKING for my Pre-Moon Speedmaster

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Looking for the person that bought my Pre-Moon Speedmaster from the pawn shop in Winter Park, FL. I had to get a loan on it and was two days late on the payment and they sold it out from under me. This watch means the world to me as it was handed down to me from my father. I am willing to pay more that you bought it for just to get it back! PLEASE! If you are reading this and bought the watch please contact me and we can work something out. All I want is the watch back as it has great sentimental value to me.

SN#17765045
321 Movement
 
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lwong
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That was not a wise move. Given its a very desirable 2998 I'm quite sure you won't be getting it back.
 
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That was not a wise move. Given its a very desirable 2998 I'm quite sure you won't be getting it back.
Your probably right Iw馃榾ng but if it was me who bought his watch and I read this I would let him buy it back.
 
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I wouldn't.

It doesn't add up.

If the watch was so precious to the op I don't believe it was the only way out of his situation. And then to forget to pick it up?

If all that is true, then the op is going to loose this precious watch again through unmanagability, should someone be foolish enough to give it back to him.

Apart from the fact that the op will be shocked at what he would have to pay to get it back.
 
Tjmmartin
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A very big ouch....but I agree with Iwong....it wasn't me by the way!
 
lwong
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It's a fantastically nice gesture, but a moot point since none of us thus far was the one to step into said pawnshop and experience the rush of seeing a 2998 at what was probably a bargain price.

If it were someone on OF you'd be seeing a thread started by now.
 
noelekal
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Life's lessons are sometimes hard. Some even learn from them. Perhaps the experience has taught a valuable lesson in this instance.
 
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Maybe it truly was "lesson learned" and this person now understands the value (intrinsic or monetary), and I certainly do not know what situation they were in, but I'm with Spacefruit on this one, something seems odd.
 
alam
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and the p shop does not keep records to perhaps reach out the buyer and pass the information from the op? 馃槖
 
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As we used to say in the military...Bravo Uniform Lima Lima - Sierra Hotel India Tango
 
bazamu
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Honestly not trying to question the validity of the story - whether or not it's true isn't for me to decide. OP, don't take the next part to heart if you're telling the truth.

Now, with that disclaimer out of the way - quite a slippery way to try to get hands on a piece that someone had observed at a pawn shop, gone to get money for, and then come back to purchase only to see that it was already gone. Would be truly curious to know how much this one sold for.
 
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I am starting to think that this is a bit fishy. If I were the OP I would check this page regularly and would respond to the Suspicions posted but there hasn't been a peep out of him since the first post. I hope that his is a true story and that he is not a ruffian trying to pull the wool over peoples eyes.
 
lwong
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Well done George! You have both resolved the OP's headache and added to it at the same time! 馃槈
 
repoman
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Closed auction.... Deal must have been struck offline. OP, did you get it back?
 
Fer Seamaster
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Weird story: so valuable that I forget getting it back, pawn shop with no records of buyers...

Furthermore, If I had have found that watch in a pawn shop with a good price, I would not let it part away in any case.
 
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