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What an interesting read....felt like i was there. Fabulous.

Sweeeet....but still can't seem to find the will to pull the trigger on this one...white or black....bracelet or strap....

That is some beast. It looks like something an astronaut would wear....very high tech.

Just to ease some concerns here, I'm not from US nor EU, as the matter of fact I don't believe the are any fellow countryman here, not active ones afaik, but I'll leave it as that.

@Tom and all the other neysayers: I've been a member of this site for 4 months and posted regularly, some useful posts and some total bs just for fun. Pardon me for being prolific and loving this place. Being 4 months on a forum doesn't make me an idiot, I know who I buy from and know how this "business" works. If you find this thread useless your are more than welcome to move along, I'm sure you can find other useful threads here. The sole purpose of my original post was to warn members and allow everyone to learn from my bad experience about dealing with dealers, not to start a witch hunt on any one of them. As I said earlier, if you are interested I'm more than willing to share information with anyone via PM, just as I shared it with one of the Admin team members, when this saga has started a few weeks ago.

@cougar Yeah, I couldn't believe my eyes. It was as if "Note to Customs:Suspicious Package" written with big red bold letters all over it. :sigh:

@Adeodatus - Sharing your experience, specially with what you went through took courage...and as Ronin stated is one of the reason why were here. Granted you will share the info when requested. But not entirely fair for the rest of the members...specially new members when this thread become stale.....The whole point of dealer review is to specifically address this and for future buyers (old and new) to know and get the chance to be specific in shipping details instead of a broad stroke affecting the rest of the dealers....and this helps to avoid the same witch hunt that you are trying to prevent. It just baffles reason for protecting this dealer.

This just inspired me to get this model on my list.

Maybe, when purchasing and depending on what country you are from, the buyer needs to present clear instructions to the TD on what to say is in the package (i.e. toy, camera part, etc.) and value.

Thoughts?

That would make sense for a complete noob and have not done this before.....but a TD selling reps for many years....its not his first dance....

So assuming it was true, OP was arrested and put in a holding cell, likely now in that country's police's radar....and he wants to do it again?

Can you ban someone for attempting to be the dumbest scam? lol.

Hey all,

Been a while since I've posted. I sent a watch back to a dealer for some issues about 2.5 months ago (sent it only with a customs number - which lets me track it to the point it left the USA, but not after, because getting tracking would cost $42). He says he hasn't received it (I check in about once a week with him). Am I [censored] out of luck, what can I do? It was a minor fix. I should've forked over the $42... better than losing out on $300.

Has anyone been in this situation? What have they done for you?

Thanks for your help.

Yeah you should have forked out that $42 for tracking because now you can expect to continue to get the same response.....With tracking, you can say 'buddy, the tracking update says it was received' and buddy can't deny it.

So the TD has been in business for many years and yet the package was a simple air cap and declared amount of $400? Wtf!? This is not acceptable. Its basically a red flag invitation for customs...and you went through the whole trouble...got a lawyer and now in the customs radar and yet the TD identity is still protected? Come on.

Well theres a collectible panerai 8 watch box in the trading section.

The yachtmaster?

How about the nautilus or ap jumbo?

Very nice pics edge...i would very much like to attend one day.

Whats the case size on this? 40mm?

Too IWC...the precious version so much better.

Nice....torn between this and the chrono version.

Ken

I'm all for ranting, it cleans the throat and clears the mind. But I gotta ask: was there a direct attack on any of you guys or the whole team?

I get the overall impression that you guys are enormously well respected. The occasional criticism is usually directed at specific decisions you guys have to take; and everyone understands they're not easy ones to take.

The team's respect and credibility is based not only on the fact that you guys have seemingly been around forever. It stems from your willingness to discuss openly, accept criticism and act only after reflection and based on hard facts.

I've followed the SQL discussion. Edge criticised what he thought was lack of action, Offshore did the same (based on a former disagreement I guess). You guys answered and acted after collecting all the facts AND after SQL could defend himself. That is not the easy route but it's the right one. And I bet my WM9 Sub that the large majority of people here understand and respect this.

Now if some punk comes around and still is not satisfied with the actions you take as a team let them. That's just a ripple in the ocean.

Thanks for doing a great job here guys.

Have a nice day, all.

Val.

I agree with Val. And as a former admin myself it annoyed me to see the criticism...there are a lot of things that go on in the back ground. Not sure if the RWG team did a post mortem. You guys handled it well...collected info and made a decision. My 2 cents for next time, if I may, would be to set the expectation of when an action will be done. I think it would help to communicate this.

Get both. Try them on and decide. Sell the one you don't keep. I would'nt be surprised if you end up keeping them both

The list is just one of things you need to do to choose. You need to read the feedback and how it was resolved. There is also a fag between buyer and sellers. Clear up anything up front to set the expectation of the product, seller and resolution.

Thank you for the Welcome but the back is confusing. Have not been here before. wat44 must be thinking of someone else. Anyway, I like and I think that I will stay!

International man of mystery and soon will be an intriguing rep collector.

Thank you for the Welcome but the back is confusing. Have not been here before. wat44 must be thinking of someone else. Anyway, I like and I think that I will stay!

International man of mystery and soon will be an intriguing rep collector.

Hope it works out.

If you happen to have documetary evidence please show it here in the open then

Not I in particular. I did see robertb indicating info sent to the admins...not sure if you have seen it.

Bottom line - there are good indications that reps were sold as gen. It also appears there are documents showing/proving that that is the case. The admins perhaps need to, if possible, advise when this will be actioned/update communication. Not having any update gives a different perception.

PAM 187 or 005K seem to find their way to my wrist more than any other watch. Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome!

Nice. Stay wristed my friend.

I think if you lift the plate and gears and if you need so, elongate the pins for the dial or build some support points for it and then make a date overlay then you will solve this issue, I will prefer to get a low beat case, believe me I will buy it on the spot even for 3 times his price!( I have eta7750 movement, dial, handse, DWt all GEN), but there are none available, polexpete had a nice solution too drilling the hole in the case but I´m not such a good driller myself ;-) I´ll try this mod with Domi and I will let you know how it goes.

Do you or Domi know if the mod to fix the sunken datewheel can be applied to the Navitimer World?