The other thing that occurred to me about a f*cking $6.5K replica watch is that you can only sell it on a forum like RWI to a small number of people, compared to a real vintage piece of the same price. And as often as we all flip watches, it makes no sense to dump so much money into a watch. Hell even the majority of people who build a franken bluesy end up dumping them for $5K just to go buy a gen for a couple of more thousand.
For f*ck's sake, you can buy a new sub for $6.5K off TRF, then once you're bored of it, sell it again for the same f*cking price.
The problem is, the buyer doesn't have the need to even think about selling it again. He's filthy well off and has been buying most franken APs that came up for sale so far. So yeah...
But I personally agree that there's a max price limit on reps, franken or not, rare or not, unique piece or not and $6.5k is over it and unreasonable. Heck, the piece isn't even an "ultimate franken" imo. I can even buy the gen I'm considering now with that money straightaway.
It's unfortunate that it ended this way for schumi. He could have just mentioned that he couldn't give the price breakdown because he bought it from another member and maybe refer the previous sales thread. No need to be defensive all of a sudden and started talking about himself, which is totally irrelevant. Gotta remember that not every member is an avid AP fan and they won't be familiar with the costs of a franken build and understand the high list price of it.
Although the first post by pietcornelisse asking the price breakdown wasn't appropriately worded too.
