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[Vintage Flatlink] Please appraise my new watch/bracelet? If this is a bust too, I'm quitting
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·The clasp is wrong for a 1035 or 1506. On these the Omega logo is different and doesn’t overhang.
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Spiegelberg
·Good that we talked about it.
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·Pm'ed, I also wonder how much you paid :|
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w154
·So here’s a plan. Everyone follow green_disk and if he lists stuff you’re interested in then just go and buy it direct from eBay Japan.
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kov
·Wow! Suddenly this thread became really entertaining 🍿
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·Looks like my seller was selling watches on ebay.com for "buy it now" while the watches that did not yet belong to him/her are at auction on eBay Japan.
No fault of @kaplans at all.
New one to me, selling things you don’t actually own yet
Unbelievable really, what a A-hole strategy 🤨
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·Unbelievable really, what a A-hole strategy 🤨
Best is, the guy is selling something totally relying on someone else’s appraisal, description and photographs. 🤦
Note this might appear new online but it’s nothing new in real life. I have watches proposed to me by « dealers » on a regular basis. Quite often, by asking a couple of questions, you realize that the guy doesn’t own the piece yet and is looking for the money he can make with that watch, before he actually buys it from his customer... often those guys have no more clue about what they try to sell than the two we’re talking about here. 🤮
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w154
·The more I think about this the less believable it is. Surely this would only make sense when the reseller was listing a watch that was elsewhere at a fixed price. Isn’t it more likely that @michael e‘s seller and the yahoo seller are one and the same ?
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·Best is, the guy is selling something totally relying on someone else’s appraisal, description and photographs. 🤦
Note this might appear new online but it’s nothing new in real life. I have watches proposed to me by « dealers » on a regular basis. Quite often, by asking a couple of questions, you realize that the guy doesn’t own the piece yet and is looking for the money he can make with that watch, before he actually buys it from his customer... often those guys have no more clue about what they try to sell than the two we’re talking about here. 🤮
Honestly, I can appreciate the need for middle men to facilitate certain types of transactions when the physical product isn't actually owned by them, i.e. estate agents for property. But this middle man need is only where their value is in something difficult for me, legal documents, or some such other value adding service.
I couldn't be arsed dealing with a watch dealer who is looking to cream both me and the seller at both ends without even dipping his hand into his own wallet and taking some risk by actually owning what he is selling.
Yes...I am very cantankerous and principled like that!
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·The more I think about this the less believable it is. Surely this would only make sense when the reseller was listing a watch that was elsewhere at a fixed price. Isn’t it more likely that @michael e‘s seller and the yahoo seller are one and the same ?
No it was very clear that, that eBay seller was listing anything he could see from Yahoo Auctions, all from different sellers, he picked "stale" auctions most of the time - it could even be automated - there are 1000's of auctions that have high start values that are essentially buy now auctions
I guess what he does is slightly less bad than drop shipping (as at least he's physically trading, in drop shipping you just make someone else ship the item you overcharged someone for), but more unethical, as there's no guarantee he's getting the items - he also seems to be ill intended as the reviews mentioned him not automatically cancelling, so he probably hopes people forget etc. too I assume, or maybe he just waits and tries to buy a similar watch ...
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··Oooo subtitles!I hate to raise the elephant in the room but the thread title suggested if this one did t work out (and it clearly hasn’t) there would be consequences. 😗
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