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Recommended Vintage OMEGA WATCHES (only) On EBAY (NOT for Inquiries)

  1. blubarb Aug 15, 2015

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    Edited Aug 15, 2015
  2. gatorcpa ΩF InvestiGator Staff Member Aug 15, 2015

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    Maybe a little later. 1969-70.
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  3. adam78 Adam @ ΩF Staff Member Aug 17, 2015

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    I bought a '20s silver Longines from this seller. He's actually from Budapest, not Vienna as it states in the ad, and for some reason his listings are in UK pounds (!), but he seems like a reliable seller.
     
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  4. gatorcpa ΩF InvestiGator Staff Member Aug 17, 2015

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    Austro-Hungarian Empire, maybe? ;)

    He has some interesting, but obscure pieces. The Corum Chronometer is interesting for those that collect that brand.

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  5. minutenrohr Aug 18, 2015

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    I offered and sold this one starting at 880 euros ca. six months ago on ebay.de. domawolf seems to have some trustfull customers bidding 957 euros six days before ending...[​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
  6. davidswiss Aug 21, 2015

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    The lugs look a bit short and out of proportion. Is that normal ?
     
  7. gatorcpa ΩF InvestiGator Staff Member Aug 21, 2015

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  9. mac_omega Aug 22, 2015

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    I have been watching this SM for quite a while now - still unsold... the condition is collect-worthy but the price is ridiculously high IMHO
     
  10. cristos71 Aug 22, 2015

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    Take care with this seller, I bought a watch from him with undescribed dial damage. When contacted about it he wasn't interested at all
     
  11. blubarb Aug 23, 2015

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  13. gatorcpa ΩF InvestiGator Staff Member Aug 23, 2015

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    http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=252057185504&showauto=truePurchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network

    A "ladder bid" by a bidder with low or zero feedback = suspicious, in my book. Multiple ladder bids means watch out for a shill.

    A ladder bid is a series of incremental bids that simply frustrates a real bidder into making their highest bid earlier. Makes the piece look more desirable than it otherwise would be to possibly attract a newbie overbid.

    This is why I always recommend a sniper program like Gixen.com
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  14. blubarb Aug 23, 2015

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    A big plus for Gixen. Another worry is a high shill bid (or creeping bids) with an immediate withdrawal after having exposed your highest bid. They get away by retracting a bid by claiming they entered the wrong amount.
     
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  15. wsfarrell Aug 23, 2015

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    If you click "show automatic bids" on that auction, you see that almost all of s***8 bids are automatic. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that imply that s***8 bid (say) $500 when the watch was at $100, then kept getting bumped up automatically when others bid?
     
  16. blubarb Aug 23, 2015

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    Early bidding is open to rorting. Mostly nibble bidding in order to find out where the max bid is. Then when they do, they don't want to pay the max and retract their bids. This is exactly the reason why I snipe in the last few seconds of an auction. Snipe in the last five seconds. The nibblers can then find out my max bid when it's too late to do anything about it.
    Of course there is always the seller who cancels your bid and then closes the auction because they weren't getting the price they wanted. So then they relisted it with a reserve.
     
  17. gatorcpa ΩF InvestiGator Staff Member Aug 23, 2015

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    True, but if you look closely, the same two bidders have a lot of the automatic bids.
    gatorcpa
     
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  18. wsfarrell Aug 23, 2015

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    s***8 has bid on watches from four different sellers in the last 8 days. He's a busy shill!
     
  19. Dr.Sascha Aug 24, 2015

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