Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BTW, Tutima has a bit of a WWII past... Op 28-mei-07, om 21:44 heeft Rob McClure het volgende geschreven: > One must be very careful buying new watches on the internet. Most > quality manufacturers won't permit their authorized dealers to sell > directly over the net. As a result the watches sold by online > sellers like world of watches, amazon.com dealers, overstock.com, > etc. are gray market. This means they were obtained through > backdoor deals in foreign countries from dealers, distributors and > who-know-who... Sometimes the watches are "Frankenwatches", made > from different components or are factory returns. Some sellers > grind off the serial number so the origin may not be traced. > Usually these gray market watches carry an "international warranty" > which is only honored by the seller or some other third party. > Some manufactures will not work on gray market watches. Ebay is > even scarier. One of the Omega newsgroups monitors the Omega > auctions and finds up to Omegas being sold are fakes. I am sure > other quality brands have the same issue. Be careful out there! > > Rob McClure > > > On May 28, 2007, at 2:30 PM, A. Lal wrote: > >> Here's a price list from an unlikely source: >> >> http://www.overstock.com/search? >> keywords=iwc&resultsPerPage=100&taxonomy=sto4 >> >> Not sure if the warranty will apply if you buy from them, but you >> may want to use this as a guide when negotiating with an >> authorised dealer. >> ----- Original Message ----- From: <vick.ko@sympatico.ca> >> To: <Thinkofcole@aol.com>; <lug@leica-users.org> >> Cc: <vick.ko@sympatico.ca>; <glehrer@san.rr.com> >> Sent: Monday, 28 May, 2007 2:01 PM >> Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Watches - can you provide >> advice orsites that >> >> >>> Thanks to Bob and Jerry >>> >>> I just looked over the Tutima site - very nice. >>> >>> Do you have a distributor near you so that you can look at the >>> watches? >>> >>> There is no distributor in Canada, only the USA one. >>> >>> Vick >>> >>>> >>>> From: Thinkofcole@aol.com >>>> Date: 2007/05/28 Mon PM 01:42:55 EDT >>>> To: lug@leica-users.org >>>> CC: glehrer@san.rr.com, vick.ko@sympatico.ca >>>> Subject: Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Watches - can you provide >>>> advice or sites that >>>> >>>> Jerry, I, too, was just about to mention the Tutima for >>>> Vick...It's in the >>>> same price and quality bracket as an IWC and some of the models >>>> look very much >>>> like the IWC...Tutima also has some models around 36mm...Here's >>>> one from >>>> Tutima's website...They say they never sell their stuff on the >>>> Internet...regards, bob cole >>>> >>>> _http://www.tutima.de/_ (http://www.tutima.de/) >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > Rob McClure > Upper Sandusky, OH > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >