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  1. ConElPueblo Jun 19, 2016

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    Quite often I stumble across auctions where the piece gets bids that to my eyes seem completely screwed up. Often a more experienced collector will then come along a mumble something about it being an uncommen, linen dialed, jumbo-something variant, explaining the end price. Others, I have no idea about (well, apart from shilling)...

    This is one of them:

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Omega-Con...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557Purchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network

    £201 for this:

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    A pretty common variety of Constellation with a badly roughed-up dial and i dire need of a service/repair. The case looks decent, but really?
     
  2. lillatroll Jun 19, 2016

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    I would guess that a lot of the cheaper quality brand watches are bought by either dealers who will polish them up and sell them on for a considerable mark up or by people who think they are getting a high end brand for next to nothing. 200 quid might seem like a bargin if you don t know what you are doing.
     
  3. Ravineman Jun 19, 2016

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    This may be the case but perhaps they simply want and like a certain watch more than you do.
     
  4. Mr Bing Jun 19, 2016

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    Love the description...'I haven't a tool to open the back but the movement is inside'. :D
     
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  5. fjf Jun 19, 2016

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    Well, the seconds hand is not missing...::facepalm2::
     
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  6. Vercingetorix Spam Risk Jun 19, 2016

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    The movement sells for $175-250, the red service case is an easy $20, watch is worth more in parts than the $283 it sold for. If it has a 752 non chronometer movement, return it.
     
  7. ConElPueblo Jun 20, 2016

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    Your hourly wage must be reaaaaally low for that to work out. Combined with the cost (both time and mone-wise) of selling and shipping PLUS the risks involved with purchasing a completely unknown quality and parting it out, I wouldn't go near this and I seriously doubt that anyone with the skills required to part it out would either.


    EDIT: I should add that going by what I know about marketing and sales, I wouldn't try out any business model of this sort unless I could sell on the parts for three times what I bought it for. The risks and time involved would make it dead in the water otherwise.
     
  8. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Jun 20, 2016

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    It is a Redialed and sold to a newbie for three times the price watch