Thomas, I guess your Santa Claus...

meant that even if there are so many crooks in the watch industry, it should not stop us from having a pure affection for watches. If that was what you meant, I 100% agree. That is the very reason why we are all here, isn't it?

But if your Santa Claus meant that he will come secretly one Christmas night and drops a Kari in my Christmas socks, then I must disagree.. Unless you can prove to me otherwise

Back to what you have said, I personally know of a grey market dealer who was invited to buy (in large quantities, over 100 pieces) from an AD in the form of "auction" between grey dealers. The winning bid seems to be around 20-30% of the watch retail price.

There is only a tiny fraction of purists in the watch industry. Majority are businessmen who are only interested in $$$...If not for Santa Claus, I would have long gone quartz...

Pat

Real Time Magazine on Grey Market

By: hungryjungle : June 3rd, 2009-03:05

Last month I posted some questions about grey market dealers and their source of acquiring limited pieces. Unfortunately the post was locked because 'it doesn't contribute to our enjoyment of collecting watches'. Later I asked the mod to delete it if it w...

Where can find this aticle? Thanks

By: au7778 : June 3rd, 2009-03:37

I'm sorry, I don't understand.

By: ThomasM : June 3rd, 2009-10:18

Hi, If your original post was deemed inappropriate by the moderators of this forum for this forum venue, why would this follow up post about an article be any more apropos? There is really no real simple answer on the subject of the grey market, just as t...

that bit about santa was a low blow :-)

By: andrewG : June 3rd, 2009-11:20

WHAT????????

By: MiniCooper : June 3rd, 2009-16:13

THERE IS NO SANTA?????? My daughter begs to differ- she is 5 years old and she is adamant the he is real. I am glad that she does not log in this site, otherwise she would debate you on this item and you would loose LOL On the rest of what you have writte...

I'm a little confused

By: mrsnak : June 3rd, 2009-19:05

Don't know what the understory is here with the pulled posts, but seems to me it might have been an interesting read whether one agreed with it or not.

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Here you go hungryjungle...

By: DRMW : June 3rd, 2009-10:37

From our Code of Conduct which everyone who joins abides by: "Connoisseurship, ownership and collecting is about much more than price and who sells what. Price and seller references tend to overwhelm the other more subtle, though equally important aspects...

Thank you for your understanding too.

By: hungryjungle : June 11th, 2009-01:26

Like I said in our PM, I didn't understand and curious about this grey mkt topic. When I found the 'answer' and i thought some members may have the same puzzle like me. Just wanted to share with the purists here. Really didn't mean to upset or challenge a...

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