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Old 10 February 2020, 09:57 AM   #26
The Argonaut
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Join Date: Nov 2017
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Originally Posted by Watch Expert View Post
My advise is if you like a time piece be patient; wait for a few months. Things will be different in 2-3 months.

You can buy things that you like, at AD pay retail new or buy used and get some discount.

This watch hype , used price over retail (current model still in production like hundreds each month ) is not sustainable; you need continuous supply multiple of morons with thick pockets which I don’t think there is any now.
Do not buy at grey dealers and pay huge crazy premium you will be badly burnt.

For example if the AD sells a time piece new at $30,000 ; the used market logically should be $25,000 or less. If the used market is $50,000 then you can smell fish. Why the AD don’t produce more and let grey dealers pocket $20,000. The AD need to pay rents wages etc ; why AD let grey dealers earn $20,000? Why not AD produce more and have higher sales volume? To create hype as you want something you can’t get. Well that may be true for a while; it may be true for certain rare model has been discontinued ( watch maker are dead) like Patek 2499 or Rolex Daytona Paul Newman; but not for time piece that are still in artificially limited production (the watch maker still alive) and it won’t go forever. You will be badly burnt.
"Multiple morons." Brilliant. Fear not. My target is this year. If it happens great; if it doesn't, well there's nothing I can do and I'll keep in the hunt for 2021. I'm in no rush. I was just curious as to whether TRFers thought there was any bubble differences.
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