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16 December 2011, 11:48 PM
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Should there be any concern about this eBay listing of "family heirloom" 1665 DRSD..?
Err Watchout Buddies...sorry for being MIA for looooooog time...
How is everybody here...? Orchi has not been visiting eBay's listing of Vintage Rolex watches... for quite long period of time also... Out of curiosity...has any other Buddies seen this listing of a 1665 DRSD before...? http://www.ebay.com/itm/ROLEX-SEA-DW...item2eb9f07b2f Seller claims the watch has had a long n amazing history of adventurous journeys... Wonders if the Seller has any provenance of such claims... Any other thoughts? or should there be any issue or worry about this particular listing...?  Best regards Orchi. |
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17 December 2011, 12:00 AM
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Err, Hello Buddy Orchi, I'm still trying to learn vintage spotting. Would I be correct to say the hands look like they've been replaced and therefore the watch is NOT original as stated. Is it also possible that an after-market Bezel has been fitted? 316lad |
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17 December 2011, 12:34 AM
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From sellers description .He makes it sound as if the owner was ''NOAH''
 
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17 December 2011, 01:01 AM
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For someone who is supposed to be located in the US, very poor sentence construction in this listing
As for the watch, from one picture alone cant verify. Owner has feedback of 4...Be very aware!
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17 December 2011, 02:05 AM
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little feedback and kind of poor description would scare me away for sure. plus the hands do look like the patina does not match the rest of the watch.
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17 December 2011, 02:09 AM
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Yes and his 4 feedback are for items under $20 that coincides perfectly with this type of watch...
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17 December 2011, 02:11 AM
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Great to hear from you Orchi!
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17 December 2011, 05:41 AM
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Hey Orchi! $75K for a DRSD? Even if Pope John Paul II wore it, I doubt it would be worth THAT much!
  
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17 December 2011, 06:11 AM
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Too much "story" and too few facts as well as poor writing skills,too few photos and lack of feedback,alltogether too many red flags.
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18 December 2011, 10:21 AM
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That reads more like a joke than a real listing.
One bad picture. The coronet on the dial is obscured by the second-hand counter weight. Tales of glory without substantiation. Outrageous price. It's almost as if someone wrote this up just for laughs.
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18 December 2011, 01:08 PM
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Err Buddies...thanks everyone for being very forgiving of Orchi's MIA...
after so long... As Orchi wondered off on a long journey to explore n learn more about Vintage Rolex...Orchi ends up being bruised n scared...after nearly getting lost along the way...  Hopes to be back here more often as possible... to work with everyone here... Back to this odd listing... http://www.ebay.com/itm/ROLEX-SEA-DW...item2eb9f07b2f 1. eBay these days would impose automatic account limit to certain Seller(s)... who has low history of selling such an item... Usually such auction listing would have been prevented... or automatically blocked... Wonders how this one slip through eBay's protections system...? 2. The one single pictured watch looks like a DRSD Mk.4... but strangely Orchi fails to understand how the Seller could have missed... to add more pictures of the watch that he is asking that much of money for... by claiming the amazing history of the watch without any substantiation... One question comes to mind...Does the Seller possess this watch to begin with for sale...? 3. Usually a loose DRSD Mk.4 watch without provenance or accessories... would be selling for around $20,000 + or -... Logically nobody would be enticed to pay the Seller's asking price... of $75,000 Wonders how would eBay benefit from this listing... if the possibility of materializing the sale is going to be... remotely slim...or even impossible...? How much would eBay make if the listing does not sell...? 4. For plainly the lack of descriptions...low history... pictures of the watch...n asking exorbitant price... do you think eBay would see this listing as breaching any violation... to eBay's selling...n Buyer's protection policies...? |
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18 December 2011, 10:15 PM
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Lets see what eBay thinks about this listing.......... seller jamyjames1 |
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19 December 2011, 12:02 AM
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This scam is gone Orchi.......
Thanks for the head up. This listing (200688040751) has been removed, or this item is not available. |
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19 December 2011, 01:29 AM
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Thanks for notifying the board... 
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18 December 2011, 01:33 PM
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looks like chamfers are completely gone, based on the one photo, but either way, i wouldn't buy a 75k watch based on one photo.
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