The five stages of Replica buying.

[OldeCrow]

The five stages of Replica buying.


1. DENIAL --- What's the first thing you do? First you try to Shake it. When that doesn’t work you shake it again! And again. You may check to make sure the movement is in the watch, hand wind it for a bit and then..., try shaking it again.
2. ANGER --- "%$@^##& Replica!", "I knew I should have stuck to Seikos." Did you hand wind the watch? Did you shake it again? I have. "I should just leave you out in the rain and let you rust."
3. BARGAINING --- (realizing that you're going to have to pay to ship it back to BFC (Bum F@#k China) or worse GOK (God Only Knows)..., "Oh please Watch, if you will just work I'll buy you a brand new strap from Elazarus, no two straps, genuine crown installed, and keep you in perfect working condition.
4. DEPRESSION --- "Oh God, what am I going to do? I'm never going to get a watch that works. I give up. I’m going back to eBay and I don't really care any more. What's the use".
5. ACCEPTANCE --- "Ok. It's dead. Guess I had better E-Mail my dealer. Time to get on with my day; I'll deal with this later."

 

[darkside7]

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[lumpyone]

haha just went through this with a omega gmt. came broken, shipped it back, waited a month, dealer shipped it back to me, and then stage 6 hit

STAGE 6 = repaired watch is lost by post office.

 

[RWIGWH]

I received a Paul Neman Daytona today. First impression was laughter. Better then crying.
The pushers had no screw downs.
How the freak do you make a daytona rep without even trying to fake the screw down pushers? Secondly the 7750 did not reset proper (ok not at all really but, it is functioning) at the 3. Well come on now, WTF did you expect right?
3rd as soon as I put the band on, it exploded off my wrist. :lol:
Within a half hr it's at the repair shop. Hows that one. :wink:

 

[RWIGWH]

Ok after some reading I see they did make a PM Daytona without scew down pushers.
My bad. :lol:
The rest is crap though! lol Naw it's actually a very nice rep.
Just need to get the band fixed and leave the crono alone.

 

[d4m.test]

Solution?

Its a two-step process...

1) Buy only ETA repts
2) Avoid the Chronograph versions (too complicated & too many things can go wrong)

 

[OldeCrow]

I seem to have made it to stage 5 for all my rep buying
less stress that way and I have a hundred other genuines to choose from so I just don't need to stress about reps any more!

It took a while to get to stage 5 though!

 

[Anubis]

Been there, I know these stages well. It's the risks of the hobby i guess......HA I'm in stage 5 aren't I?

 

[david-syd]

which goes back to the saying

" first pick the dealer, then pick the watch" !