Selling, Swapping or Wanted Watches & Timepieces *Please read rules in 1st post**

I use the horn for that. The one on the i3 is actually pretty loud and agressive. Typical for a BMW 😂

tidy yourselves folks chat is over yonder

I'm going to list these one-by-one with better photos, starting with the Omega. There is some interest in the Seiko but all are still available

At least he didn't ask when the battery was last changed

Breitling now offering warranty extension for a limited time...

I'll consider any offer on these as I have my eye on something that I can't quite afford. On holidays in the South East later this week until the end of the month so can arrange pick up

Have a watch up on adverts & chrono for about 3k. Next best chrono with same model number is for 3.7. Would probably settle for 2,750. A little less leeway on chrono due to commission. My best offer has been 2,500 on chrono so far, 2,400 on adverts. Wouldn't call it time wasters but just have to be patient I guess.

You two should just PM 😁

It's a buyer's market out there for most luxury watch makes (like Omega). I'd say most sellers on C24 would accept an offer of 10-15% below their asking price for a not super hot Omega and that's before C24 takes €200 off a €3000 watch as commission and then there are complications with shipping, the money being in escrow and the buyer could well not accept it, you'd have to relist it, somebody has to pay for the insured return, etc.

With an asking price of €3k on C24 for your Omega, I would personally accept a reliable €2400 offer on adverts (from a regular in this forum), but no doubt if you have the time and patience to wait a few months, you might get several hundred more

people on adverts will usually want more that 10%off and that doesn't make them time wasters it is just part of the game, a time waster for me is someone that makes an offer and doesn't pay or arranges to meet between cork and dublin and doesn't show up which has happened to me, what i am getting lately is people asking to look at the watch but haven't asked anything about it so that puts me right off after i had a woman look at a tag for an hour and accuse me later of having a fake even with box and papers and the watch was still in warranty

@CalamariFritti - "When I put up something on adverts I always have 10%-15% in mind for negotiations."

Yes, that's reasonable, depending on what you are selling. You wouldn't put up a Rolex sports and expect to give 15% discount or you just mispriced it in the first place. On the other hand I have accepted offers of 30% less than what I was asking, simply as there wasn't much demand out there. That was not for a luxury watch, more for a lesser known microbrand or something like that

And 15% off your asking price of €2950 is €2500. That's only €100 more than your bottom line!!

Go on @CantGetNoSleep, surely the two of you can do a deal here, I don't think I've ever seen such a small difference between bid (€2400) and ask (€2500) that wasn't overcome 😂

Didn't I tell you about the Rolex ;-)

Up to you of course. The market is considerably down now compared to this time last year. And achieved prices on adverts are considerably lower than asking prices (or even achieved prices) on C24.

If I got that offer on a not so hot (but beautiful) Omega with no box or papers, I would probably have accepted rather than wait it out for possibly several months to squeeze a few hundred extra out of it (if you're lucky)

But that's just the realist in me. Plenty of people have proven me wrong by getting more than I expected them to get on adverts before (but most don't)

throw a link up to the watch if you have time

okay so a quick bit of googling and looking at previous sales with full set etc and the price has dropped on the used market quite a bit in the last six months, looking at it from an objective point of view there was an offer of €2400 on the table and lets say it was cash so no fees to PayPal etc and you could have possibly taken it to private message and raised them up a touch so everyone is happy.

selling on advert can be very fickle and i would always be wondering how long before another offer comes along and in the meantime the watch could end up needing a service which off the top of my head is a €1k hit from omega and the value could drop even more as people are dropping watches to free up cash flow.

watches need servicing and can develop issues at anytime wether it is being worn, kept on a winder or just left in a box for the oil to dry up if we knew the answers to when and why they need servicing we wouldn't be paying omega a fortune for a service

i sold a quartz tag heuer and when i went to set the date for the new owner the date wheel mage an awful sound and it was goosed

i sold a rolex on chrono24 not long ago and the crown came out completely when i was about to wind it

up to yourself how you wish to handle the sale obviously and i wish you the best of luck with it

I sold you the more modern version of the AT…with full box and papers….two years+ ago during peak watch …..for less than your bottom line on that 😀😀. (And my loss was a lot more than you are talking of here).

Take the sale and move on is always my advice. Sooner your sell the soon the pain of the loss disappears. Cconsidering watch market has dropped, you bought on C24 (expensive) and from a dealer (expensive as dealer margin included when you bought it! or are you offering the buyer his money back in 2 months time if it developes a fault?).

Life is too short but YMMV.

Like Archie said. It’s got to hurt a little.