PSA: Be careful buying Omega parts from resealable tin packages

[kaplan]

It was sold as NOS, I didn't pay attention at the time, but the issue can even be seen from the sellers own listing photo:



Pallet fork is staffless and the removed pinless staff is in the package

Just another thing to look out for, I didn't pay attention to the item itself at the time, and I also never bought one of these resealable packages before or paid attention to the easily resealable package at the time

On the bright side I don't need it anymore

 

[mecha_h]

i had this happen w/ a roller that was NOS in a package like that but obv was damaged... i tend to hoard even bad Omega parts b/c you never know if the time comes when things become so difficult to obtain that "fixing" a part is easier/cheaper than finding one. I think a lot of old timers would put the dead part back into the container as well "just in case" they needed to pull a stone, etc.. in the future... now that their shop has been parted out after retirement or whatever... people are selling off the rest and not looking/don't know... hopefully the seller makes it right for you.

 

[kaplan]

I agree, I don't think anyone had any bad intentions

Edit: - but I doubt the seller will help, since I bought this in January and only now imported it, from experience every seller played dirty even established ones in similar situations, one example is state_of_time from Germany, a watchmaker eBay seller yet very dirty, with this seller - he's not a watchmaker I assume, but I doubt he'll want to bother either, I don't blame since in this case it's been 5 months and a small item

 

[JwRosenthal]

As discussed in another thread, this happens with vintage vacuum tubes that a seller gets in a retired service tech’s estate. The tech would commonly put the pulled tubes from a piece of equipment into the box from which a fresh tube came and throw it in a bin under the bench. Years later someone buys the lot and thinks they are NOS.
When I was buying tubes I always made sure the seller actually tested them on a tube tester (and the sellers known for it would even tell you which model tester they used and when it was last calibrated) and you paid a premium for that. Otherwise it was a roll of the dice.