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I'm sure I saw a selfie on MDs facebook page that looked similar to this, a bit uglier though

You gotta wonder why the skin is 5 times the size of the head

I know elephants have wrinkly skin so it holds moisture in the wrinkles and keeps them cooler for longer, but a dogs face?

I can't speak for others, but before I discovered the fact that high quality reps existed, about 1.5 years ago, I would never have spent more than a couple of hundred £ on a watch, and had maybe one or two.

I've now spent over £6k on various gens, the same again on reps and so the gen industry has profited from me by £6k they would not have if reps had not existed.

And to add another viewpoint to the legality aspect of it, yes, technically myself buying a rep is, at some point along the line, causing laws to be broken (copyright and trademark theft, shipping illegal goods, importing illegal goods), and selling a rep as a gen is breaking those laws plus defrauding the (innocent) end buyer, selling illegal goods, and maybe more.

So they are both "wrong" / illegal (I can only definitively speak for the UK), but if you consider the fact that if each part of each offense went to court, the sentences for each part would vary, thus implies that each part has a severity, and I do not think there is any doubt that defrauding an innocent person of many thousands of £ or $ is a much more severe offence than buying (for ones own use) and owning a rep (knowing full well it is a rep).

Some high quality photos in todays WC!

A couple almost perfect apart from a tad too much sharpening.

Today is a day of DIY (if the rain holds off), so a rugged PO will suit!

(and will be removed when I do anything as I'm a clumsy sod )

Very nice. Love European cars. Just ordered a 2015 Audi S5 cabriolet. Now I have to wait 12-16 weeks. Fit and finish similar to MB. Need a Quattro for winter but droptop for summer so Audi is really only option. Enjoy that ride

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2015? I think you'll have to wait a lot longer than 12-16 weeks LOL!

Audis are nice, never had one personally but been tempted.

This came about purely because MB Corporate (for some reason) had a load of C2xx they were letting go on a very cheap lease deal, but in a very narrow time window. Don't understand why, pre reg? Cancelled large lease deal? Whatever, it meant I got it cheap, £1700 down and £294 a month. Best the MB garage could do was the same down payment and £375 per month.

Give Nightwatch half a coconut! It is to do with solar systems, yes.

It's a system that uses the solar generated power to charge up the 5KW battery pack, and then when the sun goes down it releases the energy back into the house.

As we all work during the day, we can't use most of the generated power, and so we have to pay for the power we use in the evening / night.

Time shift the energy and you can reduce your electricity bill to very little - one chap has reduced his bill to €30 one year.

You'd think you could use normal lead acid batteries but they cannot be charged fast enough and unless you buy leisure batteries, cannot be discharged a lot either, try to use them and they'll last 3 months or so.

LifePO4 batteries can take a huge charge current, provide an even greater discharge current, and should last 5 years until they're at 80% capacity. Unfortunately they cost about 10x what lead acid batteries do!

Of course there's a lot of additional stuff to control the variable current charging, discharging, grid-tie inverters, battery health monitoring, etc.

 

Mercedes C220 Coupe CDI AMG Sport.

 

Essentially a Mercedes C63 AMG Coupe but with the 2.2 twin turbo diesel engine instead of the 6.3 AMG monster

 

Every time I get in it I struggle to come to terms with the fact that the "C class" is the baby of the range - the interior, dash, fit and finish knocks spots off the top end BMWs, fantastic.

 

Got it on a 2 year lease and I suspect i'll be very sad to hand it back, but hopefully I'll be able to find a similar deal to this one and get another new one.

Hell of a hobby my friend.

I've been designing software tools for incident response these last few years (I'm a scatter brained creative) and I have to say, you white hats could rule the world if you wanted to...

Cheers!

You are assuming they don't already....

I think it's all too easy to stop most of the world and make huge sums of money if you were illegally inclined, armed raid on MS datacentre, wrap the "Your HDD is now encrypted, pay us $1,000,000 to decrypt it" virus in a fake MS update, inject it into the MS OS "update" system (correctly signed), it's be in that many systems before people even realised what was going on.

Ok, any half decent organisation has their local WSUS server and allows a period before releasing new updates to it, just to see if they break/kill anything, and offline backups, but one has to wonder just how many PCs in government, DARPA, NATO, NASA, etc, are incorrectly configured and will fall prey to this - and of course the virus could happily upload all the documents it finds as it encrypts them.

I do wonder when (not if) this will happen and am quite glad I jacked in IT Management & support at our little place to go back to programming full time.

Pams are stupidly comfy to wear, the 24mm strap guarantees that, just do it!

Just been out for a play in the new car wearing my polished Ceramic AP

Vile - and the first picture is of a gen.

The duty and VAT are extra. In total it'll be an extra £875 ish.

Have asked some people that know all this stuff and basically I was caught out by the chinese supplier convincing me that the total charges for shipping where what I had initially paid, when the reality was the initial amount PLUS all this lot. The way I should of done it is get the supplier to ship if FOB and use a UK freight forwarding service to get a complete quote up front and control it all from the UK.

Hey ho, I learned something and it didn't cost too much

Yep.

Reported.

"The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing"

Also, as has already been said, if you cannot understand the difference between being completely aware of buying and selling reps for their true (rep) value (us buying ans selling them to each other), and buying them for their rep value and selling them for gen value (ripping someone off on EBay), well, I'm at a loss what to say. This should be as obvious as the nose on ones face.

I think you find there's nothing wrong with the watch, it's actually quite nice (apart from the huge pearl).

The problem you should have stated in your email is:-

"Wrong Customer!".

Thanks.

Value is just over $3000, of which $430 is shipping which is why I'm more than a bit annoyed at these "extra" fees.

Here's the itemised quote

Terminal Handling:GBP 65.00

Documentation:GBP 165.00

Customs clearance GBP 85.00

Handover GBP 15.00

Cisf Gbp 40.00

Security Gbp 11.00

Presentation GBP 25.00

Infrastructure Gbp 3.50

I mean, half of those things just sound made up? Presentation? Handover? Infrastructure?

Have left a message with the supplier to get in touch with their shipper to get in touch with the lot who quoted me that to (try to) sort it put, but I have a feeling this will be an expensive lesson, never agree to have something delivered to a port, you think you're saving money but it costs you a whole heap more

If you used triangular shipping then whoever received them in the UK should have opened the package to check their condition and report them as seized if they had been.

Angus will make sure you are sorted out, but you have to give him time to do so.

If you complain to your bank they will want you to post them the original receipt to prove the value that you paid, how are you going to do that when you've bought illegal items that break copyright laws?

Your bank may well report you to the gen manufacturers and close your bank account for fraudulent use. If they do that, good luck trying to open another bank account with any bank in the UK.

I've got a large LiOn battery pack (5KW) and matching charger coming in by sea right now.

I need to get the customs duty and VAT sorted out before I can pick it up, which apparently involves completing a C88 form declaring what I'm importing (or doing it online) and paying the fees due.

I think...

I have an importer company sorting out a quote for doing this for me (haven't received it yet), but it occurs to me that if all I'm doing is filling out one form and paying her majesty some wonga, why do I need another company to do that, and charge me extra for the privilage?

Has anyone done this themselves before?

It's not for a company, it's for me, private individual.

The fly in the ointment is that I need to have this sorted and paid before I can collect, and it'll be here by Tuesday next week (22nd), and after 2 days I'll start getting storage charges, and i'm off into hospital for a few days on 25th next week. I see that I can send the form in my post but that'll take longer than I need, companies like the one quoting me for doing this have online systems for sending the details in which I think will be the only way I can get it done in time now.

So I think I may have to let this lot quote for doing it, use them this time and be ready the next time to do it myself.

Loctite produce a whole load of stuff now, including superglue, but they started out producing their Threadlocker and that's the stuff I'm talking about.

Here:-

http://www.henkelna.com/industrial/purple-threadlockers-small-thread-low-strength-13233.htm

They produce a "purple" one which is for nuts and bolts < 6mm dia which would be perfect for this. (the blue I recomended is the next one up and may be too tough to undo it again)

Can't help you with the strap, sorry.

Wait for new lug, buy some locktite (of the correct colour, blue will be fine for this), then take all 4 screws out, dab of locktite on the threads of each screw, put back in again, tighten to hold lug firmly, (with strap on obviously).

The locktite will stop the screws from coming loose and the lug falling out BUT it can still be removed - just takes more force than usual, and sometimes a bit of heat.

Narikaa is on RWG.bz.

Hi guys,

I have been looking for a decent Omega replica for a while myself. Found a few websites with beautiful looking watches at fantastically low prices all asking me to wire them the money. Came close a few times to buying a replica only to change my mind at the last minute. Glad I did now as after finding this place I wasn't aware just how many scrotes are out there trying to sell you bad replicas.  

 

Anyhow, like the name says..... I'm deaf not daft ........ So will keep hold of my money till I can find a trusted replica dealer.

Glad you found this place, have a look at the "Watches, Clothing and Accessories" section and you will find our Trusted Dealers there.

I assume you must mask off the crystal or is autosol not that abrasive? (Does it have external AR?)

That's cool, really digging the blue lume. Is it as bright as it looks in the photos (i.e. Almost clearly visible in overcast daylight) or are these long exposure photos?

Either way it's very nice!