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So when you buy a watch from a private individual you just wire him the money and hope he ships it.
Or when a seller sells a watch to a private individual he expects the buyer to just take his word for it that the watch is genuine.
Within a known network - there is trust. When either buyer or seller doesn't know each other, there has to be some way to establish trust.
Anyway I sold three watches to private individuals and the way it worked always had to do with meeting at a jeweler to have the watch authenticated prior to payment. Most of these dealers will tell you that they would be willing to do the same, no matter what they post in this thread, it's just a question of trying to verify that the buyer is legitimate and who he says he is, before agreeing to meet him.
I think what Danny83 was saying anyway was that he was unwilling to allow the buyer to open up the watch, not that he was unwilling to have it looked at.
It's legitimate to say: I'll just sell to a known dealer and expect less, but anyone who posts nonsense like "I won't sell to anyone I don't know" or "I won't allow anyone to authenticate my watch before receiving payment" is not offering up anything real world helpful as far as private sale transactions.
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