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Ultraman flipping by employee at Omega AD
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dennisthemenace
·So Lars called up Omega and ordered the watch? Just wanna make sure I get this. The Omega Authorized Dealer cannot get watches from Omega, but Lars the employee can? From what I am getting here, the AD received the Omega and Lars bought from the store stock. Am I wrong in assuming this?
Maybe I am misunderstanding this deal. Did Lars acquire the watch through the AD he works at or did he get it somewhere else?
Edit, Foo2rama beat me to it.
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The Father
·Unfortunately you haven't got a fυcking clue what you are talking about.
Edit, Foo2rama beat me to it.
I am definitely repentant that I did not understand the ins and outs of LE watches. I was under the impression the subject under scrutiny acquired the watch through the AD he worked at. I’ll try to be more thorough in research from now on.
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dennisthemenace
·I am definitely repentant that I did not understand the ins and outs of LE watches. I was under the impression the subject under scrutiny acquired the watch through the AD he worked at. I’ll try to be more thorough in research from now on.
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TinyClown
·Are you just a troll? An AD cannot order that watch.
You have to be trolling because about 15 people have pointed this out.
I disagree with the 15 people who use the fact that this watch was ordered by Lars directly from Omega as a crutch on which to rest a conclusion that everything is ok. It’s an Omega product, he sells Omega watches for a living. If Omega’s goal is to cut down on flipping of their limited editions then he’s doing the exact opposite of what the brand he sells is trying to do. He’s profiting off of one of Omega’s limited editions and how he came to own it does not excuse the conduct.
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larryganz
·Maybe not everyone gets to see every thread.
Im selling one - Does that make me a turd too? 😵💫
I don't know.
- Did you buy one specifically to flip at a $4000 profit, while flaunting that you work at an OB? If so, it's likely.
- Did you buy one specifically to flip, but you didn't ask for more than few hundred over your costs? If so, probably not.
- Did you buy one specifically for your own use, decided you don't like it, and selling for a fair price? If so, then no.
To me it's a combination of factors, not just the intent to flip, nor the amount to flip it for, but the overall intent along with how one carries oneself in flipping it. The person who just doesn't like it after it arrives can sell it for whatever people want to offer for it.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of flippers who speculate on the price of limited edition watches, keeping them out of the hands of the genuine enthusiasts when they first come out. It's not illegal, but it chaps my ass - just not as much as the people who buy water before a hurricane and sell it for 5-10x their cost.
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texasmade
·I disagree with the 15 people who use the fact that this watch was ordered by Lars directly from Omega as a crutch on which to rest a conclusion that everything is ok. It’s an Omega product, he sells Omega watches for a living. If Omega’s goal is to cut down on flipping of their limited editions then he’s doing the exact opposite of what the brand he sells is trying to do. He’s profiting off of one of Omega’s limited editions and how he came to own it does not excuse the conduct.
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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...
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dwboston
·So Lars called up Omega and ordered the watch? Just wanna make sure I get this. The Omega Authorized Dealer cannot get watches from Omega, but Lars the employee can? From what I am getting here, the AD received the Omega and Lars bought from the store stock. Am I wrong in assuming this?
Maybe I am misunderstanding this deal. Did Lars acquire the watch through the AD he works at or did he get it somewhere else?
It's kind of funny that someone who has made more than a few posts lately about the Tintin watch, and its alleged meteoric rise in value, has a case of the vapors at someone else acquiring a watch legitimately through the standard Omega process and then selling it for a profit. Spare me the BS about morality or impugning the kid's character. Literally anyone who follows Omega's social media channels had an opportunity to reserve this watch. I had one reserved, but decided to cancel so someone on the wait list could get one. Does that make me morally superior to this kid because I didn't flip? Of course not - I thought about it but figured someone here might have the opportunity to snag it, so I passed. More power to the kid because he took the initiative and the risk - as there was no guarantee he could sell it for more than he paid. These are luxury goods that no one "needs". The moralizing about it is comical.
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efauser
·I guess this is the difference between someone who has taken classes in ethics and has to take continuing education in ethics as part of their licensing and people who haven’t. When you take a job there are written rules and unwritten rules. Just because something isn’t violating a written rule doesn’t mean that it doesn’t go against the overall purpose for which someone is employed. You see this all the time in the used car business with what’s known as “curbing” - salespeople and others who work at a car dealership intercepting a trade by buying it from the person who came to trade it in. You get fired for that immediately if you work at a dealership and you don’t need to have a written “no curbing” rule to fire the person. It is understood by everyone who works there that you get fired if you do it or even attempt to do it. What Lars did here is obviously less egregious but it’s nonetheless unethical.
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Mad Dog
·I am definitely repentant that I did not understand the ins and outs of LE watches. I was under the impression the subject under scrutiny acquired the watch through the AD he worked at. I’ll try to be more thorough in research from now on.
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TinyClown
·This is nowhere near the same as "curbing". You want this to be unethical so badly that you seem very willing to shape this story to fit your narrative.
I deleted the comment because it made little sense to continue arguing about it. Selling watches at a brick and mortar store is, in part, the selling of an illusion of value. The unspoken rule in that setting is “don’t do things that destroy that illusion”, don’t tell customers their watch will lose eighty percent of its value as soon as they walk out the door, don’t go to a RedBar meeting and shoot your mouth off about how much Ulysse Nardin really sucks if you sell Ulysse Nardin at work. “Don’t tarnish the brand” is another way of putting it.
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Rman
·Fortune cookie say
“When you fight against reality you lose every time.”
“When you fight against reality you lose every time.”
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Jonatan
·How is this even worth six pages of discussion?
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jmazpiazu
·I don't know.
- Did you buy one specifically to flip at a $4000 profit, while flaunting that you work at an OB? If so, it's likely.
- Did you buy one specifically to flip, but you didn't ask for more than few hundred over your costs? If so, probably not.
- Did you buy one specifically for your own use, decided you don't like it, and selling for a fair price? If so, then no.
To me it's a combination of factors, not just the intent to flip, nor the amount to flip it for, but the overall intent along with how one carries oneself in flipping it. The person who just doesn't like it after it arrives can sell it for whatever people want to offer for it.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of flippers who speculate on the price of limited edition watches, keeping them out of the hands of the genuine enthusiasts when they first come out. It's not illegal, but it chaps my ass - just not as much as the people who buy water before a hurricane and sell it for 5-10x their cost.
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ioaniro
·6 pages for a guy that ordered a watch on the internet and then tried to resell it for a bit of profit? If omega wouldn't want flipping of LEs they'd make the warranty on the buyers name. He just did what most people do, what does his work place have to do with anything.
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padders
··Oooo subtitles!6 pages for a guy that ordered a watch on the internet and then tried to resell it for a bit of profit? If omega wouldn't want flipping of LEs they'd make the warranty on the buyers name. He just did what most people do, what does his work place have to do with anything.
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