The Breitling Watch Source Forums

As someone from a country with a much smaller population (Australia), i really appreciate it when people are willing to sell overseas. I expect to have to pay insurance, customs fees etc. I'd encourage guys who are selling to be willing to post overseas IF the buyer has been on the forum for a while and can provide refs. It's more of a hassle for everyone, but in smaller markets it's almost our only real chance for a decent watch at a reasonable price.
Greg

Agree completely, it blows my mind when people in the US will flat out refuse to ship to Canada when I am not asking them to assume any risk. I mean granted it takes about 15 seconds to fill out the customs form, but really.......

I was holding out for a lifetime supply of canollis.

I must say, after selling over 50 watches in the past year, whenever I list a Breitling, the lowest life forms come out of the woodwork. I don't know what it is about the Breitling buyer, but for the most part, they have been the most difficult to work with. I'm glad I'm out of lings now.

_________________
"I don't own any watches, I just lease them"

I don't think most of us reticent Americans have a problem shipping international, it's just shipping to Canadians.

However, I have shipped to Canada twice, Australia 4 times, and Singapore twice. It gets dodgy when at the last minute the international customer wants you to play fast and loose with declared value. Oh, and FedEx has a new thing unless you have a business account they make you sign something saying shipper pays customs. At least that happened the last time.

If the buyer is above board it isn't too much of a hassle. But all things being nearly equal, CONUS wins every time.

_________________
SHARKMAN

Oh it's not just the US.

I was looking at a jewelling set on eBay the other day (press and attachments for inserting / removing jewels) to add to my watchmaking tools. It's a couple of pounds in weight and probably the size of a small coffee table book. Will probably sell for about $150. It was in the UK and UK shipping was GBP8.75 - not bad. Shipping to Canada was.......


GBP100

If somebody says there are too many forms to ship intl, thats BS. Its literally like one tiny sheet with address info and the package description. My problem is that there is a lot of potential for a problem e.g. buyer unhappy with taxes, shady foreign post office steals, gets lost, gets damaged etc. If anything happens, the buyer files a claim with paypal or credit card, and seller gets screwed. Obviously, a solid reputation can bypass the red tape, but other than that, its wire only for me.

_________________
-RJ

I may be looking to sell soon, and I have never sold a watch before. Threads like this remind me why. What a headache. Does anybody have any input on the best place to list? Here? Chrono24? eBay?

How about the first time posters questioning long time, mutiple sells records, plenty of references members on "whether I can trust you...." Yeah right! I can't wait to mail you my watch that I worked hard to save for and have you dispute the PayPal charge as fraud! Nope. I don't know you personally or through the forum... you'll get the watch AFTER the money is IN my account..... and not before!! Don't like that, then WIRE TRANSFER and she gets shipped tomorrow!

_________________
Breitling Steelfish(black)
Breitling Steelfish(silver)
Panerai PAM 312
Bell & Ross BR03-92 Phantom
Steinhart BreitlingSource LE #5/15

Gotta love the rookie buyers. I just sold an $8500 JLC and $6300 Rolex without one single idiotic request, I list a cheap Breitling CSO for $2500 and I get requests for photos with my name, date, case back, serial number, phone number. WTF?? Selling a Breitling is the biggest pain in the ba!!s....never again. I'm going to list my Breitling Field Kit soon....can't wait for More boneheads to offer me useless crap I don't want for it.

_________________
"I don't own any watches, I just lease them"

I couldn't agree more, I sold my Deepsea within 5 mins of posting it ,and payment via wire was received the same day ,and it was no haggling on the price. I haven't sold as many watches as you or Shark , but every Ling I've sold was a pain in the ass. I really want to know what the fascination is with Paypal, everyone wants to pay with it? I refuse to them now since they are reporting to Uncle Scam, anything over 10k in sales will trigger the report , that and 200 sales or more.

_________________
One Watch At A Time.

It's simple. A lot of the PayPal buyer (not all, but a BIG percentage) don't really have the money to buy the watches. They use PayPal so they can CHARGE the watch purchase on their credit card.

_________________
Breitling Steelfish(black)
Breitling Steelfish(silver)
Panerai PAM 312
Bell & Ross BR03-92 Phantom
Steinhart BreitlingSource LE #5/15

yeah ill only take , stolen credit cards , cash , rocket launchers , and drugs , as payment for my watches ...... but hey that is just me ... thats the way we do it down under , MATE ...

_________________
I shop at (Andrew Michaels Jewelle's )

Plus PayPal offers the buyer protection from fraudulent sales.

_________________
Breitling Montbrillant Olympus
Breitling Navitimer World
Breitling Chronomat
Breitling Colt GMT
Omega Seamaster GMT "Great White"
Omega Speedmaster X-33
Rolex GMT Master IIc
Bremont ALT1-ZT

I know, its just temporary, but there is one little problem with shipping to Canada--THEIR POSTAL SYSTEM IS ON STRIKE!! The poor guy buying my Steelfish is going to wait it out because of additional fees charged him if we change course and send UPS or FEDEX. In the meantime, USPS will not accept parcels to Canada. The charmless and abrupt postal clerk blurted this news to me after 20 minutes in line on a Saturday.

_________________
Scott

AP Royal Oak 15400, silver
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero Classic Cars
Vintage gold Corum
Rolex DJ 36 TT, oyster dial, oyster/smooth
Baume & Mercier Riviera 200m, silver dial/aquamarine bezel
Breitling Superocean 57, rose/stainless

Use Purolator - still running and cheaper than the others (majority owned by Canada Post).

Back to work legislation will be introduced next week so they should be back by about Thursday. Incidentally, technically they are locked out, not on strike. Union started rotating strikes and when they hit Toronto and Montreal for 24 hours Canada Post decided to lock them out before it escalated further.