I'm a little ticked. If someone posts a watch for sale and lists it as MINT, should it not be mint? I mean wtf does mint mean? I've bought 4 Pams recently, 3 from here and 1 on another forum. Of the 4, only 1 of them was accurately described. Mint does not mean a huge f#cking dent in the top of the crownguard. Mint does not mean scratches, dents, and wrist cheese DNA caked up all over it.....unless they were disclosed. Mint does not mean the head looks good but you threw an old shitty strap and crappy buckle on it. When I sell a watch and state MINT, that mutherf#cker looks like it came off the showroom floor. I know I'm pissing about, but jesus people. Describe your shit accurately. I'm not calling anyone out, but from now on I'm expecting macro shots at 30 angles before I buy. To make it worse these were purchases made over a week ago that were shipped late, fell into a f#cking holiday weekend, so 2 day priority turned into 11 days since I paid. China has better service that that.
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Level of condition of watches in the sales corner RANT!
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karesz501
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Yea that's why I stay away from m2m. I bought a watch which was mint in that it didn't have scratches but it had a years worth of dust build up in the books and crevices which apart from taking the damn thing apart, you could never clean.
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And that is why Mint is no longer an option in the form, I removed it some time ago.
"Mint" means exactly as it came from the factory, never been on a wrist, never played with, not as much as a finger print.
"Mint" means exactly as it came from the factory, never been on a wrist, never played with, not as much as a finger print.
TB....mint Was used in the descript and in the title. It was a clever workaround from the form. Its neither here nor there. I was able to fix them mostly. Took a few hours and took some bitching from the wife for cutting into our relax time. Priorities!
karesz501
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buy from china or a gen .... best bet. Reminds me of this.
That's sort of a BASIC rule in capitalism, don't be surprised.
To be fair there's a lot of stuff revealed in different lighting that can be easily missed by a seller. I had a rolex sub for sale I described as near mint. Someone asked for a shot of the back, so I accidentally took a picture with the flash on and the watch looked like I tossed it around in a bucket of nails for 10 minutes. I took the watch outside in the sunshine and a loupe and it looked like shit, yet I never noticed before and would have sworn it was near mint.
I ended up pulling that sale because I lost the o ring somehow when taking a Swiss movement shot. :banghead:
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I ended up pulling that sale because I lost the o ring somehow when taking a Swiss movement shot. :banghead:
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+1
i recently sold a prohunter dssd. The entire time I had the watch I never paid any attention to the caseback as it's a closed cb, so who cares? After selling the buyer brought to my attention that the paint had chipped off the cb a bit. Unfortunately I couldn't attest that it was like that before I sent it or not as I had no idea what it looked like before shipping it out.
i recently sold a prohunter dssd. The entire time I had the watch I never paid any attention to the caseback as it's a closed cb, so who cares? After selling the buyer brought to my attention that the paint had chipped off the cb a bit. Unfortunately I couldn't attest that it was like that before I sent it or not as I had no idea what it looked like before shipping it out.