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28 February 2020, 02:26 AM | #1 |
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Advice on authenticity please
There's a guy on my local forum who wants to sell a Daytona 116500 LN with warranty card dated 2018, box and papers with original receipt for £12500.
Sounds to good to be true. He wants to meet face to face for a cash transaction. How can I be sure it's genuine, not a scam. Meeting him at a local AD and asking the AD to check if genuine should do the trick? |
28 February 2020, 02:33 AM | #2 | |
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Personally it sounds like a setup/scam so I would pass
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28 February 2020, 02:36 AM | #3 |
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Do you think any AD have the "tools" to check if the watch is 100% genuine or can they be fooled too?
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28 February 2020, 03:01 AM | #4 |
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Why not meet him at the Rolex Service Centre in London? They can do an authentication right there.
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28 February 2020, 03:24 AM | #5 |
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28 February 2020, 03:48 AM | #6 |
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If it's too good to be true....
How hard is it for a person on the internet, to open the internet and check for market prices... Sure, you might have the occasional steal once in a while.... But a forum is internet based isn't it... Yet this person cant be bothered going online to check on the value of his goods? Too hard to believe... Good luck OP. You can buy those genuine accessories on Ebay... It doesn't prove any provenance until the watch is vetted for. |
28 February 2020, 03:55 AM | #7 |
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28 February 2020, 04:01 AM | #8 |
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ADs with official service centers will have all necessary equipment
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28 February 2020, 04:53 AM | #9 |
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That watch is selling for double the asking price at greys. You could sell a full-set D500 to Watchfinder for £15000 bare minimum for absolutely zero hassle. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that any sane, honest human being would sell it privately for such a low amount whilst accepting the attendant risks associated with meeting a stranger.
So if you go through with this you’re either having a face to face with a mentalist or you’re going to get scammed - quite likely by being robbed. Run away, fast.
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28 February 2020, 06:30 AM | #10 |
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The old saying "If it sounds too good to be true . . ."
PASS. Or don't but be sure to tell us the outcome.
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28 February 2020, 09:19 AM | #11 |
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28 February 2020, 08:50 PM | #12 |
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I understand the concerns and you guys are right, it's really written SCAM all over in capital letter.
However, if I manage to drag the seller to a Rolex Service Centre and they confirm it's all genuine, I might have found the deal of the year! He told me that he is now on business trip and will contact me when he is back. Something is telling me that he won't...I'm asking him too many questions... |
29 February 2020, 01:32 AM | #13 | |
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29 February 2020, 06:51 AM | #14 | |
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We have all been through the “oh my gosh, I have found the deal of the century! Amazing that no one has found this yet! I’m so lucky lucky Do you have stumbled upon this so early in this hobby for me! It’s amazing the seller doesn’t know what he has!” phase of this hobby / passion. Next thing you know, you’ve spent a ton of time chasing a fart in the wind (or, in the rare and worst case scenario, facedown in a ditch with your money gone). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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2 March 2020, 11:49 PM | #16 |
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The seller appears to be hedging, now that you look serious. He's just done you a favour. How much more evidence do you want? You know this is some kind of scam really, don't you?
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Hmmm, watch out. If you decide to go ahead with RSC, I think your only option is Kent as the st James branch is temporarily closed. All the signs are telling you to run away ..... :)
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12 March 2020, 06:46 PM | #18 |
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Thank you everybody for your sound advices! I realised how naive I could have been. Lesson learnt hopefully.
Just to let you know that the seller "disappeared" and remove his listing. Hopefully nobody has been scammed. Just to be clear, if I want to buy a Rolex not available in any AD, the best and safest places are the the big online store such as Watchmaster, Chrono24...etc...? Or in here? |
12 March 2020, 09:18 PM | #19 |
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Scam....don’t be an idiot....you could sell it to a blind man for that price if it was real....your not special
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I only own one datejust bought at my local AD so I really am not an expert! |
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13 March 2020, 03:54 PM | #22 |
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Lucky man, dodged a bullet!
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