Today's bargain watch that I'm not buying

A blue one sold there yesterday for £2150 and it was like new.Easy access to the used watch market in the uk would make this hobby a hell of lot more enjoyable

No doubt I'll be corrected if I'm wrong? But I'm fairly sure I saw recently that they are upgrading server/hosting?

So maybe there might be sign ups opening again soon? I know it's only 50 posts over there before you can view the SC. I found it a hard slog to get to 50 posts in 15 months 😲

Seeing the Tudors and their pricing has been interesting as has this thread.

He had blocked any new members fro joining at all for an extended period due to hack attempts. Not sure if he reopened the books.

I tried a few times to join and wasn't able to and believe that it's still the case.

i know someone looking for the blue model if anyone sees one.. there's an auto on adverts at the moment around 800 which isnt bad

Yes I've bought from them in the past, think they're located in Singapore. They're legit alright but you will be hit for import duty.

I followed that link and then had to do a search, this popped up

"X250-S18-803 UNIVERSAL GENEVE Universal Geneve Chronograph Men's Quartz Watch Current Product ③ ◎" was exhibited by jlago95877, which has a rating of 751 (98%) on Yahoo! In 03 minutes, it was sold for 1,621,000 yen. Two bids were made within one hour of the end, and the price increased by 1,000 yen. 

That's 16,000 plus taxes and import, 20K or so landed, is that a bargain?, it looks unmolested but has some wabi on it.

Oops, I'm off by an order of magnitude there, its 200K. I got my citizen bn0151 solar diver through this thread for $125 and a friend ferried it over for me.

Pic of said universal geneve

You might not be.... 😉

I have used it three times in the last 18 months, and the description of "miscellaneous horological item" along with plain packaging / no box have gotten it through each time.

The last package I had sent from my friendly japaneese proxy service by Japan post, just bounced of portlaoise sorting centre and back to Japan.

My bad. If it's on my wrist when I enter the country, you are right, I definitely 'should' declare it. I'll try and remember that, should the situation arise. Now where did I put my passport ... no must be the other pocket ... and where exactly did I park the car ... I wonder if the battery is flat...

I use zenmarket, they've been great for old Nikon lenses and watches. They halted EMS-japan post airmail during Covid and only offered FedEx. FedEx deliver then an invoice comes in the post for the taxes and import.

Currently looking there for a watch my wife that will make my wife happy. I failed twice to satisfy her with surprise watch purchases. There was this horrible incident with a doxa nymph, her expression when I opened the lid on the box was priceless. Back to Norway it went.

This time I took her through the options, a Grand Seiko stgf286 ticks all the boxes. Now it's a race against Santa.

I'll re-read your sermon when I am actually in a position to dodge said taxes. Haven't been so far. For me personally, it's likely moot, because the chances of me finding such a watch and being able to travel before I emigrate are slim.

The government just effectively taxed me 50% - more than double the 23% VAT - on a pair of earphones sent from Japan, by making me pay 3 lots of shipping. But that's ok I guess.

I'm glad you mentioned Apple. The government aided and abetted them in dodging billions in tax. Then they have the nerve to fight it when caught out and try desperately to avoid accepting €13 B when the national debt currently stands at roughly €150,000 per taxpayer. I don't believe the original arrangements or their continued backing of Apple's appeal to be ethical.

"During its investigations, the subcommittee found that Apple considers three key subsidiaries, all based in Ireland, to have no tax jurisdiction at all. One of those Irish affiliates, Apple Sales International (ASI), reported sales income of $74bn over four years but paid hardly any tax. In 2011 ASI had pre-tax earnings of $22bn but paid just $10m in tax, a rate of 0.05%."

"In its Apple study, the Senate panel reported that Apple for the past decade has operated in Ireland with a specially negotiated tax rate of less than 2%, well below the country's 12% statutory rate.

Ray Burke, Michael Collins, Bertie Ahern. I would never presume to hold higher moral standards, when it comes to taxation, than The Irish government, a Taoiseach and elected TD's. Bertie even got an artists exemption on paying any income tax whatsoever on €400,000 in income from his memoirs. How are you an artist when they were written by a ghost writer?

This one's a favourite of mine:

"Twelve EU countries, including Ireland, have blocked a proposed new rule that would have forced multinational companies to reveal how much profit they make and how little tax they pay in each of the 28 member states.

The proposed directive was designed to shine a light on how some of the world’s biggest companies – such as Apple, Facebook and Google – avoid paying an estimated $500bn a year in taxes by shifting their profits from higher-tax countries such as the UK, France and Germany to zero-tax or low-tax jurisdictions including Ireland, Luxembourg and Malta.

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Ireland is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the current rules. The country hosts corporate offices that collect revenue and profits generated by many multinational companies across the EU bloc. Ireland allows global technology companies to pay corporation tax at rate as low as 6.25%, compared with 19% in the UK.

Ireland’s decision to vote against the proposed directive – which would have forced companies to report their revenues and profits on a country-by-country basis – came as the Irish tax-and-spending watchdog warned that the country’s economy could collapse if there was a global clampdown on tax avoidance." https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/28/12-eu-states-reject-move-to-expose-companies-tax-avoidance

This country earns a substantial part of it's living by facilitating tax avoidance.

It's early days.