Missing Serial Numbers & Papers- now what?

[jaygo]

Again, thanks everyone for the good advice. the shop agreed without hesitation to take it back and has already refunded me and sent a return shipping label. they are telling me this must have happened by the company that does the polishing work for them and somehow it went unnoticed. Obviously strange that they would totally polish out he serial # and not touch the other side lug with the model number on it. Who knows?? Seems like it's ending well enough luckily.

[Fallranger]

Get your money back while you can.

[ZOOK]

Originally Posted by jaygo

Again, thanks everyone for the good advice. the shop agreed without hesitation to take it back and has already refunded me and sent a return shipping label. they are telling me this must have happened by the company that does the polishing work for them and somehow it went unnoticed. Obviously strange that they would totally polish out he serial # and not touch the other side lug with the model number on it. Who knows?? Seems like it's ending well enough luckily.

Yeah right. More likely they will resell until a buyer that does not know or care about the missing serial number purchases the watch.

[ZOOK]

Originally Posted by jaygo

Thanks everyone for your responses. It's become pretty clear I need to get this sent back asap. I will throw up a photo when i take a couple. right now my main concern is getting a full refund and trying to see if I can avoid eating any shipping costs. there was no mention about the serial number being removed in the description and to me that just seems completely unacceptable.

the worst part of this is i bought from what i thought was a reputable store offering a decent inspection period and backing it up with an extended warranty. figured this was the safest way to buy a preowned watch. Go figure.....

Drop down to the classified section here at TRF. Do some research in the 'Who's who' and 'Watchout' subforums. Read the sticky posts at the top of the 'For Sale' subforums. There are many reputable sellers; called 'Trusted Sellers' here. Unfortunatetly, there are also scam artists that post there also; be careful.

Good luck.