Dear Fellow Omega Enthusiasts, Since, apparently, I have to be around this forum for a while before I become a trusted & well-liked member, my best avenue to even seeing watches here in darkest Alabama is via on-line vendors. Since I must resort to purchasing on-line, I wanted to know of your collective experiences with known major vendors. I realize, of course that there are many good and bad, big and small vendors in the great on-line marketplace but would like to start to look in the right places. Many thanks, AQBill
I mostly avoid/avoided online vendors as a n00b, and bought most all of my watches from trusted sellers right here on OmegaForums. I think you'll find most sellers here will sell to new members fairly readily, as long as you don't mind paying by the method of their choice... and if you have some feedback as a buyer elsewhere that you can send/link, then you would have no problem at all, I am sure... there's always a few members that might shy away from a total stranger, though, I suppose, but they'd be in the minority..
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I’ve had good experiences in Chrono24 but depending on what you looking for trusted forum dealers may have better pricing.
This hobby reminds me of the early 80s and 90s of comic book collecting and the non disclosure of restoration and bad grading, leaving the collecting community in a paranoid state of if I buy what will I actually get? Then came along a grading company that took that fear away of sending the collectible to a non biased. Ahemm..Well maybe not that non biased.Hey no one is perfect. However it gave the industry more security and trust. We should have an agency where an evaluation is made on rare and expensive and not so expensive time pieces and issued a certificate and possibly slabbed? ( Only for super rare items?). Also an census report of the graded item and how many each individual model exists on record.
Yep - definitely PM the seller on here if you see something you like. I did that with only a few posts to my name, and ended up with a great looking 145.022-69