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Doesn't look like he's representing it as "the real deal" to me.

Having just read his long-winded answer to a bidder's question at the bottom of the auction, I have no doubt the seller is an out and out liar who's looking to make a quick few thousand dollars selling a rep.

Another tell..... he's made it a private auction. This is to hide the bidders' identities so no-one can contact them to tell them they're bidding on a rep.

It's a tough call to say whether it's deliberate or not. On the recent eBay auction of the brand new replica Offshore, I thought the seller probably didn't know it was a rep watch, although the concensus on the board was that the guy was definitely scamming. On this auction I think if the guy is truly scamming just on the basis of his auction text description. I have no idea why he'd post such obvious pictures though....or why people have bid the watch up to $1,500.

What a shame that a Powerseller is selling this rep and presenting it as the real deal.

Reported.

There can be only one...

Seriously, we've been waiting for a proper rep of the RO Chrono for years. It's certainly at the top of my wishlist.

No Sinn watches either...

I recently asked about reps in Singapore in this thread.

Parcelforce (uk) Are Rubbish !

Hence the reason why they are known colloquially as Parcelfarce...

Thanks very much for the quick suggestions. I've installed Thunderbird and imported everything from that POS Outlook. I've also contacted my mail provider and told them to block the spam asap, like they had been doing until recently.

On reflection, I think the problem may be something to do with my original provider (Magic Moments) being taken over by those bastards Pipex/Webfusion. I remember Webfusion tying to get a few stragglers (like me) to migratate their MM accounts to Webfusion last year. I wouldn't put it past them to have deliberately turned off the anti-spam facility in order to nudge people into "upgrading" to the Webfusion accounts.

Ok, so probably most people here get spam e-mails from time to time.

For years I had never received any spam, but over the last few weeks I have suddenly been getting around 10-15 e-mails a day at my personal e-mail account. This is strange because I am quite careful about whom I give my personal e-mail address to. I suspect someone may have entered my e-mail address (or just the domain) at websites without my knowledge, because I certainly haven't.

The Outlook XP rules and filtering feature is next to useless, because I still have to download the spam e-mails, and nearly every single time I have to add a new rule or keyword to block the spam.

I found a program called Mailwasher, which has a "bounce" feature. This supposedly tells the spammer that my e-mail address doesn't exist, in the hope that the spammer will stop sending e-mails. Unfortunately the feature appears to have had no overall effect. It's also annoying to have to use two programs (Mailwasher and Outlook) to get to my e-mails.

Does anyone have any helpful suggestions on how I can stop the spam?

I would also like to see a proper rep of this watch....immediately.

Hey Fash, congratulations!

Yes that is definitely a fake. Wrong placement of Schaffhausen, misaligned date wheel, lack of lume and SS link on bracelet.

"It ain't over 'till it's over" (Lenny Kravitz, Rocky Balboa).

Nicely done Admin, that's great news!

I think someone (I wonder who) has been putting in a load of pre-orders for other items, because the iPhone is only at number 6 now!

Apple registered it in September 2006

I read on Wikipedia that the front company filed an application for registration in September 2006, but do you know whether the registration was actually granted or if it still in the process of being considered?

I noticed that Jobs conveniently did not include SonyEricsson's P990 series of phones among the iPhone's smartphone competitors. If he had, then his team would have to rewrite some of the key arguments (because, for example, the P990 can be used without its detachable qwerty keypad, and many commercial applications can be installed on it, e.g. Opera webbrowser, TomTom GPS sofware etc). That said, the iPhone is very nice.

Because they were hoping to get it cheaper than the inevitable legal fees will now cost them and Cisco.

This argument makes no sense if you think Apple will win the court case. This is because a court makes an award for costs in favour of the winner. I still don't understand how a company with extensive resources would ask for permission to use something which it doesn't believe it needs permission to use.

They don't have the rights to use the term iPhone? This is not true, yet. If Cisco wins the court case, then it'll be true. However, I bet you one of two things will happen. Cisco loses the case or it's settled out of court quickly and quietly.

Puggy, why do you think Cisco will lose if it goes to court? My view is that if this case goes to court, Apple is likely to lose, otherwise it will be settled out of court.

Here's a quote from BBC News:

"Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco's iPhone name," said Mark Chandler, Cisco senior vice-president and general counsel, in a statement.

If this is true, then Apple has some explaining to do. Why would it repeatedly ask for permission to use something if it doesn't believe it needs permission?

Well it looks like the guys at RWI are stuck with Mrs Palmer

And her five friends....

If you think you're only going to encounter only one He molecule, then you don't need an HEV.

No, the question is whether the encounter is with lots of individual He atoms... or whether it will be with lots of He molecules in the sense you used (i.e. chemically combined He atoms).

You're always looking for graduates. I hereby name you Mrs Robinson.

Helium is monatomic, yes. It is almost always on its own. This doesn't stop it from being a molecule that comprises of a single atom.

Ok Captain () but in your previous posts you appeared to use the word molecules in its plural sense only (i.e. "split the He atoms from the molecules"), which I thought was strange given that it was Helium we're talking about. If you meant the word in its singular sense, then I think we're saying the same thing

No, I definitely meant molecule size. I don't think you'd be wearing a diving watch in the middle of a fission reaction to split the He atoms from the molecules, and if you did, you'd not care about the time.

I thought helium does not "naturally" have a tendency to form molecules? Perhaps a chemistry graduate can confirm...

@ themuck. Good post. I look forward to reading the full explanation.

Yes, it is, and they invented the damned thing!

Lighter than air? Well, as a matter of fact it is, but that's got nothing to do with it. It's molecule size that matters.

That's what I thought (although I think you meant to say atom size ). Then I had a nagging suspicion that only atoms lighter than air will explode the crystal when the bell is depressurised at sea level. Maybe a physics graduate can work that one out...

If you want to know what Omega say, it's this:

Isn't that an even worse explanation?