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Old 1 February 2020, 12:09 PM   #391
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I had an unfortunate incident with him a while back. He was claiming to give away 10 casioaks. Looked like a total follow me on all my media to bloat my subscribers list plea. Which is common but the thing that seemed off to me was he announced the winners in an unrelated YouTube in a non similar format of user names and partial emails. Can't remember exactly but i asked about it in his feed and messaged him if he could get some winners to post. He was unprofessional and gruff with me and the others, deleted the and feed blocked me. Confirmed to me he acts just like the meathead he looks like.
I won a competition when he established HH for a leather Rolex or Omega wallet, years ago so I can't recall which. It never showed up and I never bothered to follow up because I wasn't out of pocket etc and I just assumed it was lost in transit.

I am devastated for those who have suffered real losses, obviously my small story absolutely pails in comparison.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:10 PM   #392
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Another person scammed is me!

Guys I can tell you one thing. Your not along. I was a victim in December as well. Have call logs and everything.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:11 PM   #393
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Guys I can tell you one thing. Your not along. I was a victim in December as well. Have call logs and everything.
Sorry to hear mate. Please share your experience for everyone to see.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:12 PM   #394
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Guys I can tell you one thing. Your not along. I was a victim in December as well. Have call logs and everything.


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Old 1 February 2020, 12:15 PM   #395
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It seems there’s at least 5+ new members who have said they’ve been scammed. How come no one said anything sooner?
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:15 PM   #396
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I was surprised when I first saw this as I follow Chris and saw this on his IG. After coming here though I am absolutely stunned at the level and depth of fraud here.

I would personally be exhausted running such a scam for so long. I'm exhausted just reading the chat log, g'damn...

For me, besides the core issue of the fraud itself, is using a picture of someone else's burning home as cover. That's lower than low...
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:15 PM   #397
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OP, glad to hear you were able to recover your funds. I hope the other buyers will also be able to do the same.

Subscribed. Been following this thread since this morning, and the viewership is growing. As of this moment there are over 1400 people viewing.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:18 PM   #398
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OP, glad to hear you were able to recover your funds. I hope the other buyers will also be able to do the same.

Subscribed. Been following this thread since this morning, and the viewership is growing. As of this moment there are over 1400 people viewing.
It's hotter than the "Hot Tub Rose Gold Incident" of 2019
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:19 PM   #399
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Great thread and development from all involved, thanks to all impacted coming forward to post their experiences, I’d encourage all others hiding in the shadows to do so too, as Chris has now been outed the odds of anyone else waiting to be made while are marginal at best, he’ll likely delete everything, turn tail and run as this builds insurmountable against him.

It’s clear now that this was a deliberate move by Chris, he should feel shame and regret and undoubtedly does, though I must say for the sake of it I hope mentally he is strong enough to not do anything stupid. He should be held to account and lie in the bed he has made. Raw truth shall not set you free but own it and be completely clear in addressing all that your post on IG and AWBSS didn’t cover. Let the chips fall where they may. Everyone knows your reading this.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:20 PM   #400
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Chris Essery has deleted/deactivated his personal and HH Facebook pages ��
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:21 PM   #401
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Chris Essery has deleted/deactivated his personal and HH Facebook pages ��
Yep, noticed that, too.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:21 PM   #402
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I was surprised when I first saw this as I follow Chris and saw this on his IG. After coming here though I am absolutely stunned at the level and depth of fraud here.

I would personally be exhausted running such a scam for so long. I'm exhausted just reading the chat log, g'damn...

For me, besides the core issue of the fraud itself, is using a picture of someone else's burning home as cover. That's lower than low...
That's what I'm thinking, too. I just can't think of words to describe how contemptible this is. People are suffering from real tragedy, and that guy fraudulently uses their loss to play on the sympathy of others.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:22 PM   #403
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I would personally be exhausted running such a scam for so long. I'm exhausted just reading the chat log, g'damn...
In his recent videos he looks pretty stressed out to me, heavy bags under his eyes.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:22 PM   #404
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Guys I can tell you one thing. Your not along. I was a victim in December as well. Have call logs and everything.
Please share!

I was in the same situation (not with Chris) one time and I didn’t share because I didn’t think anyone would take my word for it.

The evidence is damning here and there is a trend, you’ll inspire others to speak up so we can really find out how deep this rabbit hole goes. It’s the only way.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:22 PM   #405
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I think the event that started me doubting him is when a guy went public in AWBSS about a Zenith with missing / incorrect screws. Something like he was placing the blame to the watchmaker that fixed it or something.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:24 PM   #406
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I would totally watch this on Netflix.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:25 PM   #407
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Whilst this is true for 31xx based clones, this isn’t the case with the 4130. They will take genuine parts. There are a few of these cloned 4130 movements about with a genuine 4130 balance assembly/pallet fork/escape wheel. A free sprung balance isn’t the way to authenticate these movements.
The 31XX movements can be switched by Asian YUKI movement that is backward compatible in most places and therefore can take a ROLEX genuine balance wheel assembly.
I dont believe there are any ASIAN (or SWISS) chronograph movement that would take a ROLEX balance wheel assembly or resembles even closely a 4130 movement
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:25 PM   #408
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He sounds like a sociopath. The only thing he’ll feel bad about is having been caught
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:44 PM   #409
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That wasn’t a picture of his parents house, it was his reputation
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:47 PM   #410
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seeing the conversation where he uses the generic brush fire picture was more than enough to say: yup, hes a scumbag.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:47 PM   #411
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I am not usually moved to make any comments here but this is truely disappointing.

I really liked Chris from his vids and responses to comments on YT.

The sales act itself (intentional or not), how he subsequently dealt with it and the low life opportunistic use of fictional sob story due to the devastating fires here- makes my blood boil. As an Aussie, it is an even bigger kick in the guts.

So very disappointed in CE/ HH. Unsubbed from following him.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:54 PM   #412
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Should of sent the fake back in 1000 pieces. POS using someone else’s burning house as his parents. Goodbye to his 68k insta and YouTube followers. Should also take legal action for damages.
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Old 1 February 2020, 12:59 PM   #413
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Is there even one single member here who has had a successful transaction or even any positive experiences with him to say? I don't think I have seen any so far..
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Old 1 February 2020, 01:01 PM   #414
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Is there even one single member here who has had a successful transaction or even any positive experiences with him to say? I don't think I have seen any so far..
Me either. It is surprising more people haven't come out of the woodwork to document their experience whether positive or negative.
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Old 1 February 2020, 01:04 PM   #415
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Wow, this is so shocking and disappointing. I really enjoyed his YT channel and Insta photos like many of you. Never would have thought he would take advantage of his public persona to scam others - what a fraud.

I really hope someone reports him to YouTube to close his channel too with all of this compelling evidence against him.
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Old 1 February 2020, 01:07 PM   #416
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I am not usually moved to make any comments here but this is truely disappointing.

I really liked Chris from his vids and responses to comments on YT.

The sales act itself (intentional or not), how he subsequently dealt with it and the low life opportunistic use of fictional sob story due to the devastating fires here- makes my blood boil. As an Aussie, it is an even bigger kick in the guts.

So very disappointed in CE/ HH. Unsubbed from following him.
I agree. We used to swap messages on IG with advice etc. I was one of his earliest subscribers and endorsed him everywhere. He had great content. Easily one of my favourites. He was the Australian version of Bruce Williams and Bark and Jack.

You f*cked up big time, Chris. Time to compensate everyone and apologise. No more bullsh*t.
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Old 1 February 2020, 01:07 PM   #417
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Thanks for sharing.
Be careful out there.
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Old 1 February 2020, 01:12 PM   #418
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I just messaged him on IG to see if I can buy one his 29k fake Daytona’s
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Old 1 February 2020, 01:13 PM   #419
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Is there even one single member here who has had a successful transaction or even any positive experiences with him to say? I don't think I have seen any so far..
I bought a BLNR from him before about 2 years ago, he said it's coming from overseas in about 6 weeks I believe and he delivered. There was a small problem with the watch, the crown was screwed too tightly and he forgot to resize the bracelet for me, I took it to RSC and it's fixed instantly.
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Old 1 February 2020, 01:14 PM   #420
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So shocked and disappointed here. I am from the same city as Chris and watched all his YouTube videos right from the beginning.

I cannot respect people who sell fake watches. Especially when they scam others out of 10s of thousands of dollars.

Props to OP who brought this crook into the light.
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