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Shopmyexchange (AAFES) sale this past weekend!

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Tacoman,

Did you get the feel that the issue was the frequency of the sales, length of that last one, or actual discount?

Based on the brief research I did prior to pulling the trigger the discount was typical of these sales.

Did you order during the sale and have the order cancelled?

Hopefully aafes is just getting a slap on the wrist from Omega for whatever agreement/policy they may have violated and everything will go back to normal for the new year.
 
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Tacoman,

Did you get the feel that the issue was the frequency of the sales, length of that last one, or actual discount?

Based on the brief research I did prior to pulling the trigger the discount was typical of these sales.

Did you order during the sale and have the order cancelled?

Hopefully aafes is just getting a slap on the wrist from Omega for whatever agreement/policy they may have violated and everything will go back to normal for the new year.

Well again according to this Manager, Omega has the full control of the Omegas on the site and the pricing of them and thus the changing of the price/ inventory etc. In fact I was asking about the further separate Vet discount as my order was placed on that day. They had to reach out to Omega to even find out what the price was on the item that day.

They said the 20% discount was not supposed to be on the Omegas and the reason they were all taken off the site. The sale was like weeks then came back for even longer, which is very unusual. Unusual with the length of time considering the discount. There has been further 20% discount before topping out further 25%, but both come and go very quickly in the past. I do not believe there has been close to a 20% discount on Omegas that ever ran close to that long.

So seems no violation or anything as Omega has full control over it's listings on the site. Consequently, as Omega controls that, they also control if and when more are listed as well.
 
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For what it's worth, my gut says Omega is permanently gone from AAFES.
 
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For what it's worth, my gut says Omega is permanently gone from AAFES.
That would be my take as well. Omega wants to get away from the old practices of big discounts, letting AAFES to continue offering large discounts is counterproductive to Omega's current strategy.
 
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Well Omega watches are showing up again on the exchange website. They are out of stock but previously when you used the link it would not even load the watch page for the watches that Omega took off. Also I noticed they have an upcoming sale on watches and underneath it says Omega watches are excluded. Omega has not been mentioned in one of those sale in a while. Even when they were excluded did they get mentioned on the sale picture, so does not seem like just like a copy and paste job with using an old pic recycled.

If that is the case, Omega watch url-links are going through being placed back on the site and they are going out of their way to write in Omega watches being excluded, tells me good chance they are coming back and possibly sooner than you would think

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Emphasis on 'little'.
True, my intent was to show that apparently AAFES does still modify the price. There was previous discussion of Omega controlling it. Maybe the minimal discount was approved by Omega? Beats me.
 
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Screw little, it is currently 30% off that on sale. Which is like 34% off in total. Go get it quickly 😀
 
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Great deal, still debating. Wife is looking at a constellation with Diamond indicies
 
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Price has changed (dropped) since yesterday.

Still no Seamasters though, but they are on sale too.
 
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Great deal, still debating. Wife is looking at a constellation with Diamond indicies
I think it would be pretty hard to top this. The highest it has ever been on Omega's. Highest I have heard about before was 25% off. Only better possible I could imagine is stacking your discount with using mil star for 44%. Would be shocked if they do better than 30 percent off otherwise.
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Looks like they got rid of their stock? i dont see any omegas on their website anymore.
 
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Benchmade knives almost half off ( when priced against retail.) 😲

Just bought the bailout M4
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Already have the bugout S90v. A great knife if you don't have it.
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Both steals.
 
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