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JwRosenthal
·I’m finally down below 100…👎
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·It's not that I want to keep them, more that the thought of the hassle of selling them -- all the tyre-kicker nimrods with their "Would you accept $813 for your Ed White?" -- exhausts me before I even get round to taking the photos
This ↑ 1000%... I am not that opposed to selling so much as a general detest for cheap, moronic, knuckle dragging, mouth-breathing humans. And selling something, anything, typically requires human interaction.
Last time I edged toward a sale it was immediately kiboshed when the potential buyer offered me 50% of my asking price but then vehemently added, "I can do PayPal right now, no questions asked, like IMMEDIATELY RIGHT NOW. I've got cash money burning my fingers. Not EVEN KIDDING."
Please, bruh, please just go the fυck away.
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Aroxx
·14 is overwhelming - I cannot imagine adding an 8 to that number.
My hat is off good sir.
This ↑ 1000%... I am not that opposed to selling so much as a general detest for cheap, moronic, knuckle dragging, mouth-breathing humans. And selling something, anything, typically requires human interaction.
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josiahg52
·I mean, I want to get rid of some but if there are any lonely, nice vintage pieces out there, send them. I never got into vintage because I was wary of condition and genuineness of the watches. I also did not want to pay for servicing or end up with a watch I couldn't wear. Can't imagine how many I would have if I had.
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··history nerdThis ↑ 1000%... I am not that opposed to selling so much as a general detest for cheap, moronic, knuckle dragging, mouth-breathing humans. And selling something, anything, typically requires human interaction.
Last time I edged toward a sale it was immediately kiboshed when the potential buyer offered me 50% of my asking price but then vehemently added, "I can do PayPal right now, no questions asked, like IMMEDIATELY RIGHT NOW. I've got cash money burning my fingers. Not EVEN KIDDING."
Please, bruh, please just go the fυck away.
In about a month, they read through much of the collection, and (unbeknownst to me) reached out to a couple of comic stores in the area. They eventually asked if I was determined to keep the comics, and, in my youthful ignorance and frustration, I said that I'd be willing to let them go (I really needed space in my apartment, and wasn't thinking long-term). So I told them that they could take them off my hands, and if they got anything for them, they could keep the proceeds.
They ended up with a bit more than $10,000 when they finished selling the comics. Mind you, this was the early '90s.
If only ...
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gbesq
·I’ve pared my collection down to 15 watches and I haven’t purchased a watch since … oh, alright damn it, since last month. There, I said it. 😀
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ErichPryde
··Seamasters ForeverI’ve had advise as follows, “make a discard list and be ruthless about it.” Then see where you are. I don’t imagine I’ll get to where @Duracuir1 is however. I’ve managed to sell two so far. It’s work but its getting easier.
Larry, if you have a Speedmaster "replica" that you need to get rid of sometime in the future, keep me in mind...
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··Seamasters Forever
You have a top three you'd never part with?
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··Seamasters ForeverI’ve pared my collection down to 15 watches and I haven’t purchased a watch since … oh, alright damn it, since last month. There, I said it. 😀
I mean, to be fair, you've got a couple of serious keepers that I've seen and the one you added recently (if I'm remembering correctly) was a foregone purchase.
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··Seamasters ForeverThis reminds me of a valuable lesson I learned the hard way. About thirty years ago, when I was still at my first job and I'd had to move all of my adolescent crap out of my parents' house to the tiny apartment I occupied at a boarding school in the American Midwest, I lugged a collection (a charitable description) of comic books into my flat in a dormitory. I probably had a few thousand comics, all carefully preserved in mylar sleeves, mostly nondescript stuff mingled in with some rare issues. A couple of students noticed what I had over the following weeks, and asked if they could take a closer look. At the time, I had lots to do, very little money, and no room to keep them, so of course I figured, "What the hell - why not?"
In about a month, they read through much of the collection, and (unbeknownst to me) reached out to a couple of comic stores in the area. They eventually asked if I was determined to keep the comics, and, in my youthful ignorance and frustration, I said that I'd be willing to let them go (I really needed space in my apartment, and wasn't thinking long-term). So I told them that they could take them off my hands, and if they got anything for them, they could keep the proceeds.
They ended up with a bit more than $10,000 when they finished selling the comics. Mind you, this was the early '90s.
If only ...
Yep... that's a tough one. I never collected comics, but I had an opportunity to purchase a second & third bottle of Old Rip Van Winkle 23 year 114 proof back when it first came out for about $365. I passed. There were only 1,200 bottles made and they sell at auction for 35k-55k when they come up. I realize this is NOTHING compared to what some of your comics were likely worth...
If it's SCARCE and it's COLLECTIBLE, there will be a market. I'll never forget that lesson.
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ghce
·I stopped counting when I reached 200 watches in 2020 ( I only started in earnest in 2018 ), would hate to do a count up now but I have cut back a lot, you only need to look at the Arrivals what did I buy thread, oh fυck thtas more than 10 this last week 😲 you see I've reformed 😁
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorOnce you stop and focus on the best examples…every purchase is a treasure.
Still love this watch as much as I did when I bought it.
Still love this watch as much as I did when I bought it.
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Can i have that Seafarer 2444? 🍿
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Can i have that Seafarer 2444? 🍿
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··Seamasters Forever
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Pastorbottle
·All too often.
It's not that I want to keep them, more that the thought of the hassle of selling them -- all the tyre-kicker nimrods with their "Would you accept $813 for your Ed White?" -- exhausts me before I even get round to taking the photos
I can well understand your misgivings of selling shit.
Yeah my mates often say: “ You should sell that thing you don’t use” and I reply: “ I can’t be arsed going to all the trouble of listing it and then dealing with all the flippers, chancers, scammers, numpties, time wasters, no shows, and all the fuckwittery associated with dealing with the public.”
Such is my distaste of the public, I refuse to use public transport because they let…….well………..the public use it 😁 if I could have a private train…..I’d be all over it! 😁
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·I can well understand your misgivings of selling shit.
Yeah my mates often say: “ You should sell that thing you don’t use” and I reply: “ I can’t be arsed going to all the trouble of listing it and then dealing with all the flippers, chancers, scammers, numpties, time wasters, no shows, and all the fuckwittery associated with dealing with the public.”
I refuse to use public transport because they let…….well………..the public use it 😁 if I could have a private train…..I’d be all over it! 😁
What he said
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Walrus
·I was grabbing piles of watches to show my collection this is what fell out of my arms as I was putting them all together. I should berm done tomorrow bringing them all upstairs for a group photo
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sheepdoll
·I have no idea how many watches I have. Some are just plates or empty cases (but never the case I need.) I keep finding things I did not know I had. Or never really looked at them until I was looking for something else.
I also have two more watches than I did yesterday. Somehow I slipped back into old habits from the 1990s. 3 bucks. Why not or. I'll chance on that apple watch for 7.50 even if it has a cracked screen.
More information now. I had never heard of Rancheros, Seacheros or Railmasters back in the 1990s. I was getting what ever omega came my way at the NAWCC marts. The new stuff in the mall seemed pricey at the time. I wanted computer stuff and stereo gear anyway. Those certainly did not last. How much of that has landed at e-waste. Did manage to sell 90% of my laser collection before the bottom fell out. On the other hand I was buying 1 DVD a week or so. That is like 50 DVDs a year. I still have them and they take a whole wall. I think there is like 300 of them. Suppose I could open my own rental store.
Bought one of the first HD TVs. Still have the STB. Was fun at the time, but it was sensitive and the standard was not quite fixed. Bugs in cheaper units became standard. Betamax? I kept the tapes for years nothing to play them on. 5K for a giant rear projection TV. Now it seems as pleasant as a Happy meal from a burger joint. Was pleasant at the time and tasted great. Got some use out of it. Now I have a flat screen 3D TV. And no one is selling movies in Stereo 3D anymore. More fodder for the e-waste.
Ironically when we got the reproducing piano, My dad dumped the LPs. I save a handful of my own. I also have 700 stencils for merry-go-round organs, covering 35 instruments. This does not include the Rolls from Disneyland. Strange that most of this tech is close to 100 years old. I have a calliope in the garage, too loud to play it. Was going to build two others. Now one can play the rolls on a virtual machine that runs on a laptop. I have 10,000 midi files. Who has the time to listen to them all?
Was musing this afternoon when I drove by the cash for gold place. Someone had taken out the sign, by driving into it. and is was all smashed up. I could have bought metals as in the form of watch cases back in the 1990s. What if I did? I would probably still have them and be completely blase an bored with them. Selling such would not make sense as one would only get more paper fiat. Somewhere I have some scrap gold from my jewelry classes. I suspect that anyone I offered it to would low ball and find everything wrong with it. Besides I might need it for repair work someday. Gold really is not my color.
I have my speedy. The only watch I really wanted. Has issues. Lost the correct back (which was engraved by a prior owner.) I have two other similar lemania movements/watches. Now I have like a dozen Landerons (but only a few cases.) Finding I am enjoying the A Schild watches as much as anything. Even flitting about with the dark side and cheap broken apple watches. Have plans for working on electronic watches.
I suspect it is the things one does not have what tend to stand out more than the things that are already in hand.
I also have two more watches than I did yesterday. Somehow I slipped back into old habits from the 1990s. 3 bucks. Why not or. I'll chance on that apple watch for 7.50 even if it has a cracked screen.
More information now. I had never heard of Rancheros, Seacheros or Railmasters back in the 1990s. I was getting what ever omega came my way at the NAWCC marts. The new stuff in the mall seemed pricey at the time. I wanted computer stuff and stereo gear anyway. Those certainly did not last. How much of that has landed at e-waste. Did manage to sell 90% of my laser collection before the bottom fell out. On the other hand I was buying 1 DVD a week or so. That is like 50 DVDs a year. I still have them and they take a whole wall. I think there is like 300 of them. Suppose I could open my own rental store.
Bought one of the first HD TVs. Still have the STB. Was fun at the time, but it was sensitive and the standard was not quite fixed. Bugs in cheaper units became standard. Betamax? I kept the tapes for years nothing to play them on. 5K for a giant rear projection TV. Now it seems as pleasant as a Happy meal from a burger joint. Was pleasant at the time and tasted great. Got some use out of it. Now I have a flat screen 3D TV. And no one is selling movies in Stereo 3D anymore. More fodder for the e-waste.
Ironically when we got the reproducing piano, My dad dumped the LPs. I save a handful of my own. I also have 700 stencils for merry-go-round organs, covering 35 instruments. This does not include the Rolls from Disneyland. Strange that most of this tech is close to 100 years old. I have a calliope in the garage, too loud to play it. Was going to build two others. Now one can play the rolls on a virtual machine that runs on a laptop. I have 10,000 midi files. Who has the time to listen to them all?
Was musing this afternoon when I drove by the cash for gold place. Someone had taken out the sign, by driving into it. and is was all smashed up. I could have bought metals as in the form of watch cases back in the 1990s. What if I did? I would probably still have them and be completely blase an bored with them. Selling such would not make sense as one would only get more paper fiat. Somewhere I have some scrap gold from my jewelry classes. I suspect that anyone I offered it to would low ball and find everything wrong with it. Besides I might need it for repair work someday. Gold really is not my color.
I have my speedy. The only watch I really wanted. Has issues. Lost the correct back (which was engraved by a prior owner.) I have two other similar lemania movements/watches. Now I have like a dozen Landerons (but only a few cases.) Finding I am enjoying the A Schild watches as much as anything. Even flitting about with the dark side and cheap broken apple watches. Have plans for working on electronic watches.
I suspect it is the things one does not have what tend to stand out more than the things that are already in hand.
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