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31 May 2017, 12:22 AM
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Location: Maryland
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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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31 May 2017, 12:26 AM
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"TRF" Member
Join Date: Feb 2015
Real Name: Felipe
Location: NYC
Watch: Me ;)
Posts: 2,894
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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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31 May 2017, 12:28 AM
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Real Name: Neil
Location: UK
Watch: ing ships roll in
Posts: 59,369
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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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31 May 2017, 12:33 AM
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2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: NL
Watch: Yachtmaster
Posts: 14,762
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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.
Whatever makes you comfortable you should do 
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31 May 2017, 12:46 AM
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2024 Pledge Member
Join Date: May 2015
Real Name: Mike
Location: Pacific Northwest
Watch: 116610LV 16710 SD
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I always use Trusted Sellers go to AD's to try on watches and look.
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31 May 2017, 12:48 AM
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31 May 2017, 12:49 AM
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2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Real Name: Brian (TBone)
Location: canada
Watch: es make me smile
Posts: 78,132
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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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31 May 2017, 12:54 AM
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"TRF" Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Real Name: Wes
Location: Holosuite
Posts: 6,345
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I tell them I bought it at Costco
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31 May 2017, 12:58 AM
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"TRF" Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Chicago
Watch: Daytona
Posts: 5,572
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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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31 May 2017, 01:02 AM
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"TRF" Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: LA
Watch: Rolex Patek
Posts: 338
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i have done both, buying from trusted TRF sellers and from several AD's.
Most important is your relationship with each one. Best to You.
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31 May 2017, 01:03 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Bay Area, CA
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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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31 May 2017, 01:04 AM
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Real Name: Vincent B
Location: New York, NY
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31 May 2017, 01:05 AM
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"TRF" Member
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Real Name: Vincent B
Location: New York, NY
Watch: '06 GMT Master II
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When you buy from a trusted seller...
You sleep the sleep of the righteous!
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31 May 2017, 01:07 AM
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"TRF" Member
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Real Name: Thomas
Location: Germany
Watch: yes of course
Posts: 1,889
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I buy all of my Rolex watches "face to face"
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31 May 2017, 01:34 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: USA
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I would probably tell them to mind there own damn business.
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31 May 2017, 01:44 AM
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Unless you mentioned it why would it ever come up?
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31 May 2017, 01:50 AM
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Location: United States
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31 May 2017, 01:55 AM
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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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31 May 2017, 01:57 AM
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2024 ROLEX SUBMARINER 41 Pledge Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: USA
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No one has ever asked me where I have purchased any of my watches.
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31 May 2017, 01:57 AM
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Location: Southeast USA
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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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31 May 2017, 02:15 AM
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"TRF" Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Real Name: MJC
Location: PHL USA
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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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31 May 2017, 02:32 AM
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: USA
Watch: 126610LV and SMP
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I was asked at a boutique and got a really awful look from the sales woman.
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31 May 2017, 02:36 AM
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Real Name: Dennis
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The subject has never come up for me.
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31 May 2017, 02:37 AM
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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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31 May 2017, 02:41 AM
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Real Name: Doug
Location: Georgia USA
Watch: Rolex President
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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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31 May 2017, 02:43 AM
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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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31 May 2017, 02:47 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Real Name: Brian
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31 May 2017, 02:49 AM
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"TRF" Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Louisiana
Watch: Rolex Submariner
Posts: 668
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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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31 May 2017, 03:08 AM
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"TRF" Member
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: az
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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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31 May 2017, 03:16 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Real Name: Brian
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Watch: One of Not Many
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