Thomasng A Kind Man

[truzement]

recently I deceided to put up a few watches for sale.

One of them was a Swiss Daytona with seconds @ 6.

since I was fallen for the 187, I also wanted to trade my daytona for a loast generation 187.

ThomasNG was very interested in my watch and he also has a 187 that I wanted.

He wanted to know how much money he had to add for my watch.

I told him that is was fine to trade my daytona for his 187, but if he felt guilty doing that he could add a little gift for my newborn son.

I sent my watch to him en he sent his to me and told me he had added a present for my son.

Admin received my daytona pretty quick an he was very happy with it, he told me had to polish it but after that is was perfect he told me.

I did not receive anything so I had to wait a little bit longer.

Untill my girl rang me at work telling me that a package from Hong Kong had arrived.

This was the moment, my 187 had arrived and I felt a butterfly in my belly.

The butterfly crashed and burned directly after my girl told me that the package weight close to nothing!!

she also told me that the package had been opened and retaped.

Damn, this was disapointing!

I told her not to open the package, because I wanted top see it with my own eyes.

When I came home later that day, I examined the package and it had indeed been opened, but by customs!

Strangely the envelope had also been opened from the other side and was resealed. this was clearly noticeable because of half of the date stamp from the hong kong post did not align anymore with his other half.

I opened the envelope to see if there was something in it.

I saw a letter and took ik out. It was from Dutch post, stating that illigal goods were found in my package and were seized by customs and were going to be destroyed!

Weird, customs seize my goods and the post sends me a letter stating that my goods are seized by customs, but without proof from customs.

On the envelope itself, it has a custom stamp, stating "free of tax"

On the website of the Dutch customs it says: that a maximum of three counterfit watches may be imported without, being seized of procecution of the owner.

There was no contact telephone number on it, only a faxnumber.

I took another look in the envelope and found money that I did not recognised directly, it were Australian Dollars. Admin told me he was going to sent something, but I thought he was going to sent a little fluffy rabbit or another childs toy.

when I counted the money I was overwelmed by the ammount of this gift from a stranger from a country at the other side of the world.

It was a totall of almost 250 euros!!

it was a strange feeling, my watch being seized or stolen, and the nice gift from Admin for my son.

It were two conflicting feelings.

I contacted Admin and told him what I discoverd when I got home.

He was very upset by this and felt really bad.

He filed a complaint at the Hong Kong Post and I did the same here in Holland.

At least we can rule out the theft of the watch when customs have a record of this.

Its not his fault offcourse but he received my watch perfectly and that made him feel more worse then he allready felt I think.

[Guest TTK]

Very unfortunate situation for both you and Admin......I'n sure you bothe felt bad for each other.....I hope everything works out well for you both.....remember it's only watches.....and fake ones at that......nobody lost an arm or a leg.......and there are no UN tanks anywhere to be seen.....!

[ryaku]

You had a happy end story.