Inventory and Greys

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so I was cruising around looking at listings, since there is always so much talk around pricing going up or down with greys and the marketplace. Just peaks my interest. While viewing the DSW website I noticed something interesting. It shows that there are 220 milgauss listings but when you click on the inventory it only displays 4 listings. Same goes for the DeepSea listings. It shows 255 pieces of inventory but only displays 3 of them.


I know many of you will say that this is a glitch but I think the story goes deeper. The DSW site is a Wordpress website that uses woocommerce as its backend for inventory and a shopping cart that integrates a Credit card and PayPal processing. Most of the inventory management system, accounting and processing runs off of plugins. Although yes this is a glitch, the inventory number needs to be pulled from somewhere, in this case it would be pulled from the amount of units held in the system. I believe this means that there are actually 200 plus watches of inventory for each of these references but they are only displaying a few. Or it could be that the category itself being Rolex has almost 500 watches in inventory.

This may go to prove what many of you think - greys hold inventory and leak it to control pricing. This also suggests what many of you have been saying, Greys are not buying inventory as they were before. If the stock levels are like this and you’re holding inventory that you can’t move, you’re definitely not happy. Although this is just a one off case, and can be considered anecdotal evidence, no one can argue that DSW maybe one of the more significant Grey dealers in the game. One could make an assumption that other dealers have similar inventory and sales issues due to the current climate.

Hopefully those of you that are in the market will hold out and not buy until these prices drop. Attached below are 2 screen shots.


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