Selling to Boutique member?

[RickinArizona]

What is the best way to determine a fair asking price when selling to a Rolex Forum's Boutique member? Is there a reliable source for valuations of various models?

[Kevin of Larchmont]

Boutique member?

[Calatrava r]

Professional sellers will tell you what cash they will pay on delivery for your watch to them and upon inspection confirming as represented. You can either accept or look elsewhere to sell it.

[Flypanam]

A seller will give you less for your watch than what it is worth on the secondary market because they have to resell it and make money. The plus side is that it's easy to deal with them, rather than try to sell the watch on your own, particularly if you don't have experience or history selling yourself through various avenues. Also, there is no guarantee your watch will actually sell, even if you list it yourself.

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by Flypanam

A seller will give you less for your watch than what it is worth on the secondary market because they have to resell it and make money. The plus side is that it's easy to deal with them, rather than try to sell the watch on your own, particularly if you don't have experience or history selling yourself through various avenues. Also, there is no guarantee your watch will actually sell, even if you list it yourself.

Well said

[train-time]

Originally Posted by Calatrava r

Professional sellers will tell you what cash they will pay on delivery for your watch to them and upon inspection confirming as represented. You can either accept or look elsewhere to sell it.

Originally Posted by Flypanam

A seller will give you less for your watch than what it is worth on the secondary market because they have to resell it and make money. The plus side is that it's easy to deal with them, rather than try to sell the watch on your own, particularly if you don't have experience or history selling yourself through various avenues. Also, there is no guarantee your watch will actually sell, even if you list it yourself.

Exactly right and excellent commentary and advice!

I have sold many watches this way. It's convenient, safe, and the Boutique seller takes the risk. I sold a bunch of my collection off late Winter 2023, March/April 2023 if I recall, to one of the Boutique sellers. He still has one of the pieces sitting on his website for sale for over a year and a half. I guess he really did assume the risk with this piece!

[Marcjvr]

After my last watch sale I will never go down the road of trying to sell to a private buyer again

Not worth the incredible hassle and headaches they put through. By the end of the deal I was wishing he had just been a scammer who grabbed my watch and ran and saved me weeks of misery

[SudiYunus]

Originally Posted by Marcjvr

After my last watch sale I will never go down the road of trying to sell to a private buyer again

Not worth the incredible hassle and headaches they put through. By the end of the deal I was wishing he had just been a scammer who grabbed my watch and ran and saved me weeks of misery