9/13 is your anniversary?? I will trade you if you can find 0408! ;-)

 

I missed out on my son's birthday as well (0215). So I went with mine. Probably best, as it makes the watch more divorce-proof

 

No, I'm afraid that's the state of affairs at this point. I am not sure I agree with Omega's "reserve without (down-) payment" policy... .
If someone changes their mind between now and June then it could very well be the Speedy goes to some other Boutique customer instead of you and the many others still hitting the refresh key...
Not that fair imho...

 

Agreed! They should have asked for a deposit. But maybe they are not setup for online ecommerce on their site (yet)?

 

This may be for another thread....but if anyone has 0328, I would love to trade with 0725!

 

I'm not savvy with this, but perhaps something is preventing Omega from taking deposits from an e-commerce basis. Especially in the US where they can't sell direct to the customer (i.e. as simple as the Extract from Archives when it's not even competing with any stores).

While on the West Coast some individuals didn't even get a shot from a timing perspective, imagine if they decided not to even reach the US market by accepting deposits. The fact that money exchanges hands (be it deposits) "counts" as a sale. And of course, how it ultimately effects demand simply by asking individuals to fork over money right away.

 

Going to give it another hour or two before giving up for good. I'm surprised I'm not banned for DoS'ing Omega's website with refreshes.

 

I agree. As a sneaker collector this a similar issue. When LE releases come out there has been an increasing number of scalpers which takes the fun out of collecting. I can promise that this Speedy being my first will be worn proudly and will never be sold.

 

I think it is a difficult problem to solve in a fair way, perhaps they could have done it by allocating an equal amount of watches to each continent. Any left not watches that are left within a certain period could be moved to another continent. I am not sure how easy this would be to actually do but if possible it might be a solution.

I wonder how many would have been ordered if a deposit was required, Basel World is just around the corner and there might be some wow watches there. On reflection, if I had been asked for a deposit I think I would still have ordered one, but if something pops up in March that I like more then I would probably go for that one.

The most important thing is that a similar situation to the Snoopy release is avoided where some people bought multiple watches which they then sold on for more money. I think that is a real shame for those who really wanted to have that watch in their collection.

 

We don't know for sure though. I mean, can't you reserve with multiple email address, variations of your name, mutliple shipping addresses?

If someone wanted to hoard these for flipping later, it isn't impossible.

 

Wonder what's the % of people successfully reserving today...

 

GRRRRRR... no luck at all for me. I seem to be chasing low probability events these days

If anyone doesn't want their allocation (I know.. but it's worth a shot!), pls let me know... many thanks!

 

Still trying. Like an idiot.

 

It's been weird, though. At least every two or three refreshes, the page doesn't fully load. Either it's stalled on a server side response (perhaps checking to see if a slot is available), or I'm being throttled somehow.

I'm only refreshing every few minutes, often with 15 minute breaks in between.

I do feel pathetic, though.

 

Tired to secure one of these yesterday but was late to the party.

Great looking watch and one I will be after in the future!

 

Keep trying buddy... don't give up

 

You are not alone good sir! I was refreshing since waking yesterday morning and up until about midnight PST and then again starting at 8am this morning.

Behold my fields of luck and see that they are barren!!

 

I had to inform an Omega boutique for pick-up during my reservation process. I am surprised they did not make that a general restriction for all reservation.

I know this would be unfair with those thousands of KM away from the nearest one, but from a business perspective you would want to direct the watches to locations where you will likely have repeat customers at the OBs after this initial sale + grey market flippers would have to have multiple staff going into the boutique to pick-up each hoarded watch.