Post by Rusty on Nov 20, 2007 13:40:27 GMT -5
Off the topic of Invicta, but since I reside here, I'll post my tale of woe here.
Last Thanksgiving, we had many relatives with us which always makes us happy. But after we ate, and people went off to movies, watch or play football, or just collapse, I went to the computer to do a little watch surfing. After visiting here, I made my way around to several sales forums and ended up on ebay.
I started in the Invicta e-tail section but ended up at a site selling Astbury watches. My esteemed colleague, Knight Watchman, governer of all he sees in our Asian Watch Forum, had just purchased a cool looking Eurasian retrograde automatic
with this brand so as I started looking, lo and behold, there were several models that caught my eye and most had bids in the single digits, and were about to expire. So I started bidding.
As family members returned from their post-Turkey Day activities, they came to the computer to check email or see what dear old dad was up to. After a few up-bids placed, it appeared that I was in the lead on two Astbury watches with moments to go. In the end, I lost one and won one.
The dealer was in Australia so two weeks later, the watch arrived and it was much larger than expected. Shipping was an additional 20 bucks. The watch has four sub-dials and the hand of one of the dials was floating around inside the dial. So, back the watch went to the land down under, another 20 bucks. Four weeks later, a box that looks like it crossed the Pacific Ocean several times arrived and this time, the hand was in it's rightful place but it didn't move at all. I was not going to spend another 20 bucks to send it back to it sits in my watch case hardly seeing the light of day, although it keeps very good time.
My Thanksgiving watch deal turned out to not be much of a deal. But it makes for a good watch story and cautionary tale for all of you who are thinking of going online to look for that perfect Thanksgiving deal. My best advice, if tempted to shop, go to the 'fridge and grab a leftover turkey leg rather than your computer keyboard.
And with that, happy Thanksgiving to all you Invicta WIS's.
Last Thanksgiving, we had many relatives with us which always makes us happy. But after we ate, and people went off to movies, watch or play football, or just collapse, I went to the computer to do a little watch surfing. After visiting here, I made my way around to several sales forums and ended up on ebay.
I started in the Invicta e-tail section but ended up at a site selling Astbury watches. My esteemed colleague, Knight Watchman, governer of all he sees in our Asian Watch Forum, had just purchased a cool looking Eurasian retrograde automatic
with this brand so as I started looking, lo and behold, there were several models that caught my eye and most had bids in the single digits, and were about to expire. So I started bidding.
As family members returned from their post-Turkey Day activities, they came to the computer to check email or see what dear old dad was up to. After a few up-bids placed, it appeared that I was in the lead on two Astbury watches with moments to go. In the end, I lost one and won one.
The dealer was in Australia so two weeks later, the watch arrived and it was much larger than expected. Shipping was an additional 20 bucks. The watch has four sub-dials and the hand of one of the dials was floating around inside the dial. So, back the watch went to the land down under, another 20 bucks. Four weeks later, a box that looks like it crossed the Pacific Ocean several times arrived and this time, the hand was in it's rightful place but it didn't move at all. I was not going to spend another 20 bucks to send it back to it sits in my watch case hardly seeing the light of day, although it keeps very good time.
My Thanksgiving watch deal turned out to not be much of a deal. But it makes for a good watch story and cautionary tale for all of you who are thinking of going online to look for that perfect Thanksgiving deal. My best advice, if tempted to shop, go to the 'fridge and grab a leftover turkey leg rather than your computer keyboard.
And with that, happy Thanksgiving to all you Invicta WIS's.
;D ;D ;D
. I'm going to eat sooo much of Mom's home cooking, especially the turkey that will be slow cooked in a wood oven 
. Happy Thanksgiving to all ! Larry
