[Leica] OT: Watches - can you provide advice or sites that

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

There is no problem here - dealers get high end watches at 50% of MRP. So
going into any shop and getting 30% or so off should not be too difficult. I
would always choose a reputed brick and mortar shop, always safer.
Cheers
Jayanand

On 5/29/07, A. Lal <alal@duke.poly.edu> wrote:
>
> I agree, which is why I suggested using that web site as a price guide.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vick Ko" <vick.ko@sympatico.ca>
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, 28 May, 2007 4:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Watches - can you provide advice or sites that
>
>
> > Yeah, this one scares me.
> >
> > I lost my fear of buying camera gear over the net and ebay, but from
> what
> > I
> > can tell, ebay is getting really scary for camera gear.
> >
> > For watches, it must be a nightmare.
> >
> > If I decide to buy, this will be with authorized dealers; I have found
> one
> > extremely trustworthy one in Hong Kong.
> >
> > Vick
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org
> > [mailto:lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Rob
> > McClure
> > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 3:44 PM
> > To: Leica Users Group
> > Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Watches - can you provide advice
> ...
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
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