Wholesale rep prices -> here to go

[GenTLe]

Just for your info

 

I discovered 2 things.

 

1) http://www.watch-station.co/ which is also a TD here but for whatever reason its subforum is read-only and completely empty.

It is part of Angus (pure-time) business. He sells the same watches he has on www.pure-time.com, but with no post-sale service (so no guarantee, no "send back to repair", no custom seizure protection) and a lower price.

 

2) http://www.tswatchltd.com/ which is TD at RWG & RWI also started to offer the same service (and as WatchStation there is no minimum amount, so even 1 piece is ok). Same like upper, you just need to identify the watch and require the "no after sale service price".

 

The quotation is done on watch model base, so the discounts are different. To give you an example of what we are speaking about (examples from today from TSWatch):

 

Requested from a member that didn't specified the model

Main Site Price: $288 plus $15 shipping - $303
Main Site Price if using WU (10% discount): $272.70 (Including Delivery)
Wholesale Price: $209 plus $15 shipping - $224

 

Blue Black Bay

Site Price - $318 plus $15 Postage
Site Price with WU discount - $299 delivered
Wholesale Price - $254 plus $15 Postage

 

Of course these are good rules (from zero_deficit member on RWG):

Who shouldn't consider using wholesale services:
- Those in high customs risk countries
- Those who want a bit of peace of mind that they'll have a fully functioning rep
- Those with little/none watch repair skills
- And those with no local access to a decent watchmaker

Who should consider using wholesale services:
- Those in countries who don't usually have problems with customs
- Those with adequate watch repair skills or access to a decent local watchmaker
- Local dealers
- Those who have never really benefited or needed after sales service

 

Still to understand if they can do triangulated shipment...

[droptopman]

Interesting.  Thank you for the post and information.  

[automatico]

Wholesale...

I posted a couple times about a 'wholesale guy' a friend of mine knew in NYC who was in the 'wholesale business' and he came up with quite a few watches over the years and his prices were about half of what the TDs were asking at the time.

For instance, a '16610' with sapphire crystal, high quality case tube, crown etc with new swiss eta 2836 (not a scav movement like today) was between $100 and $120 depending on his mood. They were a little bit wokky and most had serial number F437091.

Today the movement is worth about as much as the complete watch sold for back then.

 

Another NYC liquidator/wholesale guy he knew had genuine nib Seiko 5 and mid size Orient for $38 plus nib stainless Oniss DJ styles with swiss eta 2836 for $65 along with hundreds (maybe thousands) of nib 'shelf pull' automatic Gruen with swiss Eta 2836 for $40 each. I did not have enough sense to load up on them but did get a few.

 

Where are the wholesale guys now?

'Wholesale guy' was busted a couple years ago with 70,000 (seventy thousand) fake pocketbooks.

Last we heard he was working in a deli in NYC.

'Liquidator/wholesale guy' went rip last year.

[GBOGH]

TS has always offered this option, but just recently removed the MOQ to match the WS option