I think the idea is that it’s not going to be so easy to flip it for a profit if there’s no warranty covering it.
Profiteers are not going to buy it if they can’t sell it at an instant profit. If they choose to play the long game and keep them for twelve months before flipping then fair play to them.
I'm pretty sure the ebay listings will still say remainder of 24 month warranty valid.
If sellers are happy to operate as "profiteers", I'd be very surprised if there was any mention of small print warranty Ts&Cs.
Or seller and buyer agree that if there is a problem in the first 12 months the seller will get it sorted 'pretending' to still own it.
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274872010005
From yesterday’s listings
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Eddie, have you ever thought about selling via ebay. Could be interesting esp. an auction!
Last edited by bobc; 19th July 2021 at 16:32.
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
I dont fully understand how it works but the first 10 bids are from one person is this shilling?
he got £640 for a Smiths W10 prs 29a.
Edit wow hes sold a lot of watches from timefactors.
The gilt dial sells for well over RRP on ebay but I've not seen them go that high before. Looking at the recently completed sales its seems like £400-500 is more the range.
Edit: I see he has managed to sell at least 2 other gilts dials for very strong money. Seems like he is buying just to sell on and doing quite well out of it.
Last edited by Rob s; 5th August 2021 at 15:55.
Christ alive. The fact that Eddie's watches are so difficult to get hold makes this particularly galling. Nothing to admire in the slightest.
That leaves the watches being sold too cheaply then. Unless you have a better idea? It's just capitalism doing what it does. Nobody has to have one of these watches, but they want one with a passion, and are happy to pay more. Someone is just serving that market. If only there were a way to sell them directly to the deserving.
Given how hard it is to buy TF watches these days, with watches going out of stock in under 60 seconds, people like this must be using bots to secure their eBay stock.
Is there a way to create hurdles for the bots, for example using a captcha during the checkout process ?
It won’t necessarily stop these people but at least everyone will have an equal chance at the Timefactors Checkout Challenge.
If the seller is known to Eddie, it doesn't need a captcha. The simple glitch will do.
Why not simply cancel his purchase and put the watch on eBay, with excess going to the fundraiser? Simple.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284376344...UAAOSwitlg-Er2
Above retail but BIN at 440 quid sounds a lot better than that other auction
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I’m surprised the PRS-50 no rad hasn’t been snapped up by someone. Is it the fact that it needs a service putting people off?
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Anyone care to take a guess at how much the first Caribbean will be listed for on eBay?
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
MUJI was a Japanese brand selling minimalist unbranded products (including cheap watches). So I suppose, to the Japanese mind, anything minimalist and unbranded could be MUJI but I don't think this is accepted practice. The seller is just upvoting his sale. I wouldn't read anything into it.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=muji+watch...ages&ia=images
無 "without"
印 "mark or symbol"
Pronounced "Muji". I suspect the advert was auto translated. It just means unbranded. We'd say "sterile dial".
(The Japanese shop uses the same characters)
https://chrono24.app/all/smiths-smit...DE&SETCURR=EUR
Not eBay but chrono 24
900 euros and seems like this seller has changed out the clasp for one of the older models? As far as I’m aware all newer models have the push button clasp, correct?
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Only question is when the first Caribbean makes it to eBay - today or tomorrow?
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.