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Originally Posted by conrail

I'm with ya there - but it's also why I hate the "trusted" seller label with vintage and have been saying so for the past year or so; more of these little "incidents" are coming out. Sure you're not gonna receive a brick in the FedEx box from a "trusted" seller, but people gota do their homework!!! Vintage isn't like new watches where you know exactly what you'll get b/c they're all the same; vintage is open to serious interpretation and opinion differences, even among astute experts.

Ah well - if I were the seller I'd make it right and take it back so everyone were happy; don't see, apart from the US customs issue (kinda a big deal), why that can't happen. But that is a decisions between the parties to this private transaction.

Fair points