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*LoL* I cant help finding this way funny.... "My name is Mr. Ball.... Slime Ball..." Is the seller that bad?

Can anyone confirm that the picture above is a U-boat "Flightdeck Cab O"? I checked the Uboat official site http://www.uboatwatch.it/main.html and its impossible to link to pics there since they use some sort of Flash website.... but according to the pics here: http://www.mattbaily.ca/index.php/brands/u...k-50-cab-orange the pic above is bound to be the "Flightdeck Can O". Also, Stallone seems to favour this model too... http://www.mattbaily.ca/index.php/blog/200...-boat-bandwagon

I had a not-so-expensive Gen Citizen Eccodrive (approx 400 Euro) which I dropped on a stone-floor and totally destroyed...as greg_r states above, I would been really angry with myself if I had dropped a more expensive gen...I rather drop and destroy a rep than an gen...

A strange thing happened tonite: I was at a mall in northern Stockholm, Sweden and when I sat at a coffeshop drinking a double espresso with my wife and two of my kids I saw a well-known watch-dealer called "Ur och Penn" (Watch and Pen) which among other things are the disti of Citizen in Sweden. I went into the store and asked whether they had watches in 43 or 50 mm since I wanted to see how a watch that large would fit my wrist. And would you know...there in the store they have this brand (I asked who made the brand but the lady was new and didnt know) called "Jetset" and some of their watches was a mirror-image of the U-boat cases complete with the "crown-guard" I actully asked to try one on and discovered why U-boat has the "crown-guard" to the left instead of the right, since I had trouble moving my wrist with this "mirror-copy", I tried it on my right wrist to "simulate" how it would feel to have the crownguard facing your arm (and not your hand) and it was way better. I would think that anyone having their watch on their left arm, should probably go with the crown-guard on the left as U-boat has. Oh, and here are some pics from "Ur och Penn" website showing the "Jetset" brand with the "San Remo" models. In the store there were actually one that was even more U-boat

That sure looks like a very thin plastic cover with "airbubbles" under it. I had an mp3-player once that I cursed since the display was really bad, looking something like your rep....until I realised that there was a protective plastic cover on it and it was quite hard to remove too... So check once more time please to see whether this is not a protective plastic coating and not a bad AR treatment...

What kind of movement is it in the rep? The gen seems to have an ETA7750 according to the Excel-sheet

I actually got in touch with the manufacturer and asked for info about dealers in Scandinavia and a lady from Denmark (where they have their disti apparently) came back to me with the Excel-sheet I have attached. True, the prices in it is Swedish Crowns (SEK), but to convert it to Euro just divide it by 10 and you get a very close equivalent to Euro. The fun part is that the Excelsheet describes the type of movement for each model, type of case and type of dials and strap. Oh, and I also got an Excel sheet of AD in Denmark if someone wants that, but this file I havent enclosed, but can upload on request. Prisliste_til_svensk_kunde.xls

I probably need to learn all the basics first...but tell me about the courses you mention? TZ? Can you point me in the right direction?

After lurking here for a while (and doing some sporadic posts) I have come to the conslusion that I wanted to know more about watches, movements etc. I searched for courses in Sweden, but these seems to be far and few between, so I Googled for books instead. It turns out that there is a Swedish guy (Im from Sweden too) selling a book called "Amateur Watchmaking" which looked interesting and wasnt very expensive so I ordered it yesterday and is waiting the delivery of it any day now. I found it on this site: http://www.watchmaking.se/index.htm and I will update you all guys whether the book is worth buying and reading or not.

Oh, I found the references at Eurotimez "old" site (since I understand that there will be a "new" one shortly) that has both a "Catalog" and a "Dictionary" ("..."for prices & reference pictures of other watches not listed in our catalog..."). The references above I found in the Dictionary part of the site. A little confusing for me anyway, since it is unclear whether you can get these watches from Eurotimez or not. (there *are* prices listed there) Yesterday when I scanned Precious Time

www.dnsstuff.com is your friend...sometimes you get more info, sometimes slightly less as in this case: It is a newly registered domain... "... Registrar: ENAME, INC Status: clientDeleteProhibited Dates: Created 27-sep-2008 Updated 27-sep-2008 Expires 27-sep-2009 DNS Servers: NS3.VBARQ.COM NS4.VBARQ.COM I was referred to whois.ename.com; I'm looking it up there. Using 0 day old cached answer (or, you can get fresh results). Displaying E-mail address (use sparingly -- this will make it more likely that you will trigger our rate limiting system). Domain Name : feltline.com Registrant Contact : SUNMM Registrant Organization : SUNMM Administrative Mail : david_mailserver@yahoo.com Status : clientDeleteProhibited clientTransferProhibited Domain Name Server : ns3.vbarq.com ns4.vbarq.com Registration Date :2008-9-27 Expiration Date : 2009-9-27 ..." An very new FQDN and it points to 218.106.90.228 which belongs to an ISP in China: "...Using 0 day old cached answer (or, you can get fresh results). Displaying E-mail address (use sparingly -- this will make it more likely that you will trigger our rate limiting system). % [whois.apnic.net node-1] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html inetnum: 218.106.90.128 - 218.106.90.255 netname: hefei-qingyi-jiayuan-corp country: cn descr: hefei city admin-c: TC254-AP tech-c: TC254-AP status: ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE changed: daihy@china-netcom.com 20020924 mnt-by: MAINT-CN-ZM28 source: APNIC route: 218.104.0.0/14 descr: CNC Group CncNet country: CN origin: AS9929 mnt-by: MAINT-CNCGROUP-RR changed: abuse@cnc-noc.net 20060329 source: APNIC person: TECH GROUP CNC address: 9/F, Building A, Corporate Square, No. 35 Financial Street, address: Xicheng District, Beijing 100032, P.R.China country: CN phone: +86-10-88093588 fax-no: +86-10-88091442 e-mail: tech-group@china-netcom.com nic-hdl: TC254-AP mnt-by: MAINT-CN-ZM28 changed: zhaomq@china-netcom.com 20010917 source: APNIC..."

Then I know where my next bonus will go.... Btw, I didnt see the size mentioned of the watch...it looked quite large in the pics in the thread (and it is called Jumbo as well!) Is it 43 mm? A good site to the different sizes is actually the official site of the U-boat brand http://www.uboatwatch.it where they show how a 55, 50 and 43 mm watch would look on the wrist. Unfortunately I cannot link to this pic, since this is in a flash-application. Just look at one of their watches, preferably which comes in different sizes (you see this in the lower right corner) and click on the one of the sizes in the already mentioned lower right and you will see the illustration. I took a screenshot of this and attached it to this post. I havent figured out how to show pics inline yet....

Can anyone verify that the Patek Nautilus Jumbo from Eurotimez have the same quality as the "MBK version" mentioned by the orginal poster?

I dont want to say too much on the progress since this is an ongoing case, but I eventually used some of my old law enforcement-contacts to see who could help me with this case, and in the end I mailed a lot of info about this to a contact within the London Police, IT-crime department as well as to 2 dutch investigators. The London police advised me to take it further with the Edinburgh police as well as Royal Mail investigation deptartment, so I did that too. We can only hope at this point that the bad guys were sloppy at some stage, since they do leave traces, both IPs (which of course can be a proxy-site) and mail-addresses (and the ISP, in this case Yahoo may have IPs from where the use accessed when the mail-address was created respective used) and also cc-info for the hosting site (which also register the IP of the user signing up). The cc could of course be a stolen one. So it all depends whether the scammers was intelligent enough to hide all their tracks or not. Actually, to get Europol involved some stuff needs to be fulfilled: 1. It needs to be organised crime 2. It needs to involve more than one EU-country 3. It needs to be initiated by a local law-enforcement from the countries mentioned in item 2 above. Europol is not allowed to open cases on their own, as far as I understand.

Its apparently this guy: Domain Name : watchc.com Registrant: Organization : Li guangping Name : Li Guangping Address : zhenwu zhen AC27 City : Jiangdu Province/State : Jiangsu Country : CN Postal Code : 330533 Administrative Contact: Name : Li guangping Organization : Li guangping Address : zhenwu zhen AC27 City : Jiangdu Province/State : Jiangsu Country : CN Postal Code : 330533 Phone Number : 86-86-053286072822 Fax : -86-053286072822 Email : wodbiz@gmail.com Technical Contact: Name : Li guangping Organization : Liguangping Address : City : Jiangdu Province/State : Jiangsu Country : CN Postal Code : 330533 Phone Number : 86-86-053286072822 Fax : 86-86-053286072822 Email : wodbiz@gmail.com Billing Contact: Name : Li guangping Organization : Li guangping Address : zhenwu zhen AC27 City : Jiangdu Province/State : Jiangsu Country : CN Postal Code : 330533 Phone Number : 86-86-053286072822 Fax : 86-86-053286072822 Email : wodbiz@gmail.com

It looks like the Blue/Burnt one is the model PP-NT-007 (PP0044D) and the Black/Dotted is the model PP-NT-010 (PP0044G) at the Eurotimez site. Is this correct?

I checked the Rolex official site and the only Sub on display that has engravings is the 40 mm Sub in yellow gold.

Forgive a noobie here, but is the engraving found on the Gen as well? I wonder as I found the thread below where the member in question used a Dremel to take away the engravings from a rep and also that the noobmariner rep doesnt seem to have the engravings either. I found the thread here: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showto...;hl=euromariner // d

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In my former life I worked 6 years as a security consultant and did - among all the weird stuff I did - forensics and internal crime investigations. This was some 3.5 years ago so my skills probably need some refreshing (!), but start with the domain that was used to scam you. Ah, wth, lets do it together.... The domain "ROYALMAIL-INTERNATIONAL.COM" that was used to scam you is still active according to www.dnsstuff.com This particular domain was registered with a probably fake address and name: Alexa Stuck (lovetechmusic@yahoo.com) 75 S. Serenity Way Greenwood IN,46142 US It was registered only a couple of weeks ago: Creation Date: 24-Sep-2008 From here you have to choices, yahoo.com keeps the IP-address you use when you sign up for a free account which could give you the IP where this scammer came from. It

You did the right thing...its important to be honest IMHO...

I think I reported it...but after pressing the submit button I was shown the Ebay-login screen. Do I really have to be an Ebay member to report stuff? If so, my report didnt make it... ..just give me his address instead and I go to the seller with a baseball bat... *evil grin* Just kidding guys, just kidding... I am a really nice guy although blessed with a kind of mean and evil look...I always get caught in the security checks when travelling to my company HQ in SFO....

Actually this is both true *and* untrue according to Snopes. TRUE Starbucks did charge 9/11 rescue workers for water, how bizarre it may sound: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/starbucks.asp UNTRUE That Starbucks refused to serve marines seems to be untrue though: http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/starbucks.asp

Thanks guys, I have read a lot and realised that I know so d-mn little! As a newbie I am in this state of "what shall I really buy? What kind of movement should I go for? What brand? What dealer?". It

Guys/girls, This forum will take me some time to go through (so much info, so little time!) so I wont post too many posts in the beginning, but I wanted to take the time to say hi to the forum. My name is Dennis and live in Sweden. I actually stumbled upon this forum while searching for reviews of seller of replicas, but I am really glad I found you guys...so Im staying.... I plan to purchase a rep or two in the near future, I have always had a good eye for Breitlings so a Breitling will be my first I believe, then probably a Patek Philippe. I gladly take every advice on what models to purchase though! L8r Dennis