MD2020 resurfaced

[panerai153]

Hi all,
I just wanted to share my experience with MD2020, or Mike Dabrowski, or however you would like to refer to him as. Two months ago, I sent him 5 vintage Zodiac watches which I paid a pretty penny for. As a college student with limited financial means, this was nearly half of my collection at the time – I’ve recently found a passion for vintage watches and love collecting and seeing others’ pieces. I paid him upfront for the repairs in the amount of $165. It’s been two months now, and he hasn’t responded to me in three weeks. He said he would ship my pieces back, but he was “busy” so he couldn’t send tracking info. I downloaded this app specifically to share this story with all of you, so none of you make the same mistake in the future. It really makes me sad to read all of these forum posts about him. He seemed so nice, and we talked for an hour about vintage watches. I don’t know what else to say.


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Here is some of our correspondence, along with a photo of the watches I sent him.


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@cfpecks,
If you are a member of the vintage watch forum, you need to post this on that forum as well. As long as this little ass hole is not called out for what he is, a common thief, he is going to continue to steal folks money and watches.
And a bit of advice to you from a very old and experienced watch collector, “if a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true”. Any experienced watch person will tell you that no “real” watch smith is going to work on 5 watches for 165.00 USD, unless it’s something extremely simple like adjusting or changing bands, or possibly pressure tests, etc. certainly not anything that requires opening the watch and parts.
I feel for your plight. That little thief took me for over a thousand dollars worth of watches and parts.


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