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True story.

Thanks my thoughts too $400 isn't even 1 car sale........ But it is less work, now that I know where all the stuff is.

So get this.... As I predicted, business is crap without me and I have been asked to go back to work on a temp basis. Good timing too, with the holidays coming around. I still have cars, and also a box of phones and blackberrys to sell so everyone is getting a present this year! 2 days a week for a week or 2, then 3 days thanksgiving week and a full week after that, then back to 2 days a week for an indefinite period. Too bad I don't even like the job that much.........

Thanks again. I shot him an email for a price check. Maybe I could have asked around here though, but maybe some people have different understandings with him

Ok, this is becoming some sort of twisted web for me and I need some outside perspective. I've expressed interest a few times on here about vintage daytonas, and I bought a few parts before I realized how much the project would cost. (this was a while ago) Lay off, blah blah, I put my not yet started project out to pasture and sold the parts I bought. I made a acquaintance along the way who is seriously gung-ho about these project watches. He wants me to sell him more stuff than I had, so I pointed him to several places that have what he needs. For some reason, he wants to go through me on everything, but I tried to explain to him that it would take twice as long and be alot of work on my part. He says thats fine with him, and tells me what he's willing to pay, which is more than it would cost me to buy it, about $400 more. I sourced this stuff, so maybe making some change on the deal would be cool, but WTF, it doesn't feel right. Doing something for free, something which is a total pain I may add, seems retarded so I'm in some kind of *moral?* dilemma. I sat on it for a month and didn't even speak to this guy. Fast forward----I see freddy's watches AND get asked, almost begged to come back to work in the same day, so I start looking again. Then this dude PINs me and asks about bridges and tells me he's still looking for a case too. Before, I told him just to look up ntdtrading, they have some. Now there's this DW, but I don't want to just start giving that guys info out since we don't even know each other. If I do buy a case from him, it's going to be for me, not someone else and it's not going to be right now anyway. I recommended that the guy joins a forum or 2, and he's not interested in that either. I do have a little fish on the hook with an old ntd trading case for sale, I sold someting to him before and kept in contact, and I can get it for a good price. I suppose I could sell it right away to this other guy and get some bank off of it, but I don't know if I want to. At the same time, I can't think of any reason NOT to do it. I was looking at this Ntd case for myself, then heard about DW cases, and heard they were like $350, so that seems good for my watch, which I could afford with the sale on the other part. AHHHH! The past few days, every time I turn around its 6263 this or 6263 that and throw a good 6265 at it while we're hitting me in the head with all of this. I feel like a freakin junkie who ran out of smack or something. This potential buyer has more faith in me than I feel I instilled, and I feel I have several options but don't know which one to take. I will list them to keep this from being too objective: 1. Buy the case and sell it right away for $400 extra dollars and put that towards my case 2. Buy the case, sell it for close to cost, feel stupid and wait some time before I start mine 3. Buy 2 DW cases, sell him one for twice as much, then I get one free and he gets one for way less than the other one. 4. Don't do anything, tell the dude I can't get it, then wait until I'm ready to buy one for myself. Don't get me wrong, I like the guy, we've had some interesting watch building chats, I just don't want to take advantage of him. I told him that, and he said thanks, can you get it or what? I have money. Money is the one thing my father always taught me to never say no to. I sell stuff left and right to strangers, cars, phones, computers, satellite equipment, but I never really took pleasure at making a profit off of someone I know. This guy sure doesn't seem to mind though. Maybe he just doesn't want the hassle.

It looks like DW doesnt sell on ebay anymore, unless he uses a different name, which I doubt since I don't see any cases on there at all. All of this talk about vintage daytonas is causing me to want one really bad, or at least look into getting one. So does anyone know where DW went? Feel free to PM if necessary.

I know that guy sells frankens with supposedly refinished tudor dials, refinished with rolex marking on it that is, and non-tudor 28xx movements in supposedly gen cases with aftermarket bands. He never says this particular band is authentic in the auction in question. Searching through his feedback, you can see that he buys these parts from sellers in asia for less, and sells them for almost double. He has a few purchases from this guy: http://myworld.ebay.com/parts4rolex now, compare that to his page: http://myworld.ebay.com/eleganttrade. Same items, new pics, ships from US, thats why he is able to get more for it, people are more likely to pay more for items that are local. I see those bands going out of asia for 39.00 on the bay, from sellers with the same products as parts4rolex. Hopefully the seller will allow a mutual agreement to not complete the sale. If not, I guess the only options are to buy it, leave neg and get neg back, don't pay and get a neg and an unpaid item strike, or pay, leave pos, and get pos. That is probably why his feedback remains high. Add on: These are a few sellers who I know to sell aftermarket parts without stating so: (they will admit when asked, so always ask!) gohmeiling jewparts junkdvds (has some gen some AM, doesn't specify) Well, thats it for now, the rest on my list are no longer registered users........hmmmm......... Guess I better make a new list.

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so who is DW?

It changes it and makes me feel retarded. But I'm used to that. I thought they were 500? In that case, for 800, I'd pick it up before the person changed their mind. When I get a chance I'll have to look at my bookmarks and ebay watched items page and see what I was really thinking about. That brings a V72 powered rep with ntd trading case at least into the upper 2,000's, maybe more. Now I'm thinking that I would pay 800 for Freddy's watch, he went through alot of trouble on it and its is truly and handcrafted watch, so the other ones, if exactly like his would be the same deal, I just wish I could spend 800 on one right now.

800 for a rep is usually high, but that is one of the Holy Grails of watches, so I might, Under certain circumstances. It would depend on the accuracy compared to the gen, and how much it would save in comparison to building one. If you think about it, $800 could a fair price for this particular model, as the cases from NTDtrading cost $1150, then a aftermarket dial about $100, more for a gen refinish and around a thousand for a NOS gen dial. Then the movement will probably run around 400 for a Val 72, then another $100 or so for a quality band and rep buckle. That adds up to at least $1750. Add an engraved bridge for the movement for $200 and now you're into some decent used gen prices. Now I might lose a few people here, but I'm responding to 2 threads at the same time: When I was quoting those prices before, I was stating that for $800 I would want a watch that was assembled, not just a case kit that included only a case, bezel, crystal, and caseback. I am not familiar with the specifics of the DW kit, so I don't know if the V72 series is compatable with that case or not. The die hards insist on a V72 for a vintage daytona rep, but I'm not one of them. Overall, and I apoligize for typing and thinking at the same time, I probably could have saved you some reading time if I did the former 1st, but thats not what I was saying back there. For me, $800 is too much to spend on 1 aftermarket part, so they better throw in a dial, hands, band and clasp and movement for that price. Then I would have a watch. For $800 I'd think about it. With a V72 I'd ask how fast I could get it

my prayers are definitely going out to them.

Good thing you did the screenshot Vic, they changed it already.......

Can't wait, I just may spring for something like that, maybe even go nuts and get one where daytona is on the top..... All I find for parts is ntd trading cases for $1150! There are others for about 800 too, but for this price I would like to just buy something thats all put together. It's crazy how something as simple as swapping a caseback can cause so much trouble.

And it says her fans call her that......what then, I ask, do her enemies call her?

Glad you got it fixed, those are nice watches you have there. I probably would have bought a daytona by now if it wasnt for all of the little things that happen with them. Where did you get that one with asymmetrical pushers anyway? Looks like the NTDtrading case that used to sell for $1200 on the bay. Very nice.

I agree, there a thread somewhere about that, search keyless works and you'll find it. a watchsmith sould so it easily as well, maybe $30?

How did you break it? Can you post some pics? maybe its not that bad and a jewler can fix it for less than a new one.

I am in a humorous mood today, and I came across this: ebay 330185474305. Who knows what the quality of this rep is, but you have to love his ad "50% authentic" "must get" Wow. Don't get me wrong, this is not meant for the auction scams area.

Sounds good, I have nothing to lose anyway! Thanks again freddy

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Thanks. I don't think I'll be putting money into this watch, but that tool may come in handy anyway. I'll check ofrei.

Thanks Corgi, and thanks Nightstroker, that info is good. Now all I need to do is figure out how to get that rotor back on like in my other thread about this thing and I'm good. In the meantime, its a nice looking manual watch. I just wish it had a black band.

I found one that has me cracking up over here with that guy: here