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Old 31 May 2017, 12:22 AM   #1
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When you buy from a trusted seller

Does anyone ever ask you where you purchased your watch? Has anyone ever looked at you with skepticism when you tell them? Just wondering if anyone has received weird looks or comments when telling someone you bought your Rolex "online", or "wired money to a guy"? This is something that probably only WIS would understand doing, and how it really works.
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Old 31 May 2017, 12:26 AM   #2
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Yes I've gotten some pretty weird looks when I mention that I bought mine from a trusted seller via TRF...
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Old 31 May 2017, 12:28 AM   #3
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I would think non-WIS would assume you only bought it at and ADs, and WIS would ask, what's his website?
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Old 31 May 2017, 12:33 AM   #4
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Colleague of mine wanted to buy a Rolex and asked me where to go. Told him I bought online from who and why. He was scared to do same and went to the AD.
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Old 31 May 2017, 12:46 AM   #5
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I always use Trusted Sellers go to AD's to try on watches and look.
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Old 31 May 2017, 12:48 AM   #6
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Does anyone ever ask you where you purchased your watch? Has anyone ever looked at you with skepticism when you tell them? Just wondering if anyone has received weird looks or comments when telling someone you bought your Rolex "online", or "wired money to a guy"? This is something that probably only WIS would understand doing, and how it really works.
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Old 31 May 2017, 12:49 AM   #7
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In the sense that its a lot of money to send for an online transaction, yes.

I've gotten a few stares mostly from my wife
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Old 31 May 2017, 12:54 AM   #8
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I tell them I bought it at Costco
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Old 31 May 2017, 12:58 AM   #9
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I usually say I got it from a guy in Times Square.

And when they ask, "Is it real?" I answer, "It better be. I paid 100 bucks for it!"
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Old 31 May 2017, 01:02 AM   #10
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i have done both, buying from trusted TRF sellers and from several AD's.
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Old 31 May 2017, 01:03 AM   #11
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I think it is safe to say wiring high sums of money to someone you have never met and only have internet review to vouch for is unimaginable for most people. But after my first transaction with trusted TRF seller, I will definitely willing to do business with them again. But I must say that first transaction was definitely a leap of faith though.
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Old 31 May 2017, 01:04 AM   #12
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Does anyone ever ask you where you purchased your watch? Has anyone ever looked at you with skepticism when you tell them? Just wondering if anyone has received weird looks or comments when telling someone you bought your Rolex "online", or "wired money to a guy"? This is something that probably only WIS would understand doing, and how it really works.
My answer is honest and does the trick. "I know a guy..." and sometimes, "my Rolex guy." #Badass
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Old 31 May 2017, 01:05 AM   #13
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Old 31 May 2017, 01:07 AM   #14
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Old 31 May 2017, 01:34 AM   #15
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I would probably tell them to mind there own damn business.
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Old 31 May 2017, 01:44 AM   #16
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Unless you mentioned it why would it ever come up?
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Old 31 May 2017, 01:50 AM   #17
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Unless you mentioned it why would it ever come up?
this ^ Most everyone is going to assume you bought it from a store
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Old 31 May 2017, 01:55 AM   #18
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this ^ Most everyone is going to assume you bought it from a store


What kind of question is that? People ask me where I got things that they like ALL the time, including my watches. Obviously that's why I asked the question.
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Old 31 May 2017, 01:57 AM   #19
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No one has ever asked me where I have purchased any of my watches.
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Old 31 May 2017, 01:57 AM   #20
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A few of my friends love watches but aren't exactly WIS. These guys know the online process and while they don't think I'm out of my mind to wire money to strangers it's definitely outside of their comfort zone. A few of these guys have bought pre-owned but only from a storefront or Crown & Caliber.


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Old 31 May 2017, 02:15 AM   #21
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I would think only a wis would ask, like if they knew it was a discontinued model that couldn't be had at AD's anymore etc. so they could ask where you got it...
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Old 31 May 2017, 02:32 AM   #22
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I was asked at a boutique and got a really awful look from the sales woman.
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Old 31 May 2017, 02:36 AM   #23
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The subject has never come up for me.
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Old 31 May 2017, 02:37 AM   #24
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No one has ever asked me where I bought my watches.........but if it was a trusted seller or other merchant and I felt the transaction worthy of a referral I would certainly show them were to go online..........and show them this forum.
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Old 31 May 2017, 02:41 AM   #25
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I know several Rolex owners and only one mentioned where he bought his, a pawn shop. He's very wealthy, just extremely frugal. I've never been asked about mine and would never ask. Oh, just remembered another friend bought his first in a Navy exchange. He is a collector and has some beauties. He volunteered the information.
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Old 31 May 2017, 02:43 AM   #26
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I was asked at a boutique and got a really awful look from the sales woman.


Hilarious. ADs give me that same look when they ask, and I mention a gray market place. I know it all too well.
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Old 31 May 2017, 02:47 AM   #27
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Unless you mentioned it why would it ever come up?
Exactly and I have never been asked where I purchased a watch.
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Old 31 May 2017, 02:49 AM   #28
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Yes I have, and it it was from my local authorized Rolex AD after they offered only $2,500 for a vintage Rolex diver that a TRF seller offered $9k towards the same trade!
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Old 31 May 2017, 03:08 AM   #29
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LOL - I got a look of incredulity at an AD when he asked where i bot my blue Pelagos and then a sneer when I told him how much I paid:-) and thats a relatively cheap watch:-)
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Old 31 May 2017, 03:16 AM   #30
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People ask me where I got things that they like ALL the time, including my watches. Obviously that's why I asked the question.
Interesting
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