Leary about buying on Ebay??Your opinion??

[cmiller]

Hey all, I have been on and off this site for a while reading up and enjoying everyone's opinions and information....I'm interested in buying my wife a Rolex for Christmas and needed your opinion on buying one from Ebay. There is a seller with a 99.9% rating who has sold over 700 Rolex watches over the years and seems to have great prices on new watches. I'm interested in buying my wife a 18K/TT Lady Datejust with black MOP/diamond dial with gold fluted bezel. I've been to my local AD and they can have the watch in late January and the best price they said they can do is $9400.00 out the door. The list on it is $9775.00. This particular Ebay seller whose name is u$aveontime, is offering it for $7855.00 shipped. I've had several contacts with him and he assures me the watch is brand new, never been sold, and has open papers. I hate to buy something offline, but for almost $1800 difference it's hard not too! What would you guys/girls do?

Hope to hear back from you all!

Thanks