Buying expensive watch on line?
19 November 2008, 11:35 PM
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Not a silly question - try Quidco - The web's cashback cooperative or Quidco - Goldsmiths
It's well worth having a quidco account. So far buying online through quidco has saved me ~£550 in 1.5 years.
It's well worth having a quidco account. So far buying online through quidco has saved me ~£550 in 1.5 years.
19 November 2008, 11:43 PM
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I've worn it every single day without issue, had a new battery, service and polish every 2 years, but it was starting to look particuarly battered and two of the buttons had dropped out.
I finally replaced it last year whilst at Bicester Village, found the exact same model there for half the price I paid for the original, brand new with a 2 year manufacturers warranty.
£800 for another 7 or 8 years will do me, my job is too manual to be wearing a nice Rolex, but I do get the point about Tag's being 'badge engineered'.
My brothers just brought a Grand Carrera, nice watch, but for that money I would have got a Rolex, what's your opinion on that one Nacro? (Alan, lol)
20 November 2008, 12:11 AM
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I nearly got a Carrera Chrono like this for £1200 there the other week...
RRP £2000, not a bad discount.
Still couldn't bring myself to do it with the Tag on the dial though.
Would have an original Heuer one in a flash though.
RRP £2000, not a bad discount.
Still couldn't bring myself to do it with the Tag on the dial though.
Would have an original Heuer one in a flash though.
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20 November 2008, 06:40 AM
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However the 'gauche ebauche' plebs on this thread seem to have missed it.
20 November 2008, 08:32 AM
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Do you not realise that some of us buy things because we like them, not to be elitist? Or to seek some approval?
Whether you or anyone else likes them or not has no relevance at all to if I buy something!
20 November 2008, 09:04 AM
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However we are entitled to an opinion and to share it.
If you really didn't care you wouldn't have whined like a petulant child and resorted to pathetic and juvenile name calling.
As for elitism I believe it's a good thing, rejecting the type of garbage that TAG represents is part of what elevates me from the mire that the dross likes to grut around in.
Best stick to your pints of stella, harvester meals and banality it suits you well.
20 November 2008, 10:13 AM
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Just thought I'd share the PM that NACRO has sent to me. 
Hi,
You're making yourself look like an idiot on the TAG thread.
You haven't the ability to match me in a debate. A handy metaphor in terms of our relative intellects-
You turned up to a gunfight packing a bent stick.
Thought I'd give you a friendly heads up and a chance to save yourself from further humiliation.
Cheers
NACRO
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What on earth is all that about?
Hi,
You're making yourself look like an idiot on the TAG thread.
You haven't the ability to match me in a debate. A handy metaphor in terms of our relative intellects-
You turned up to a gunfight packing a bent stick.
Thought I'd give you a friendly heads up and a chance to save yourself from further humiliation.
Cheers
NACRO
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What on earth is all that about?
20 November 2008, 10:46 AM
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Have you never heard of Jaeger LeCoultre, Patek, IWC, Blancpain, Breguet, Zenith, Vacheron Constantin or any other quality watch manufacturer?
Rolex might well have the most ubiquitous marketing, and I don't doubt that they make excellent watches too - but nothing says "I want other people to notice my watch" quite like a Rolex...
20 November 2008, 10:51 AM
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Ive heard of them al Andy. Im not sure what your point is but my opinion on Panerai watches has been stated and explained in previous posts (and validated by Alan too...).
20 November 2008, 11:21 AM
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Its not quality thats the issue. The Rolex built Panerais are superb and the other watches equal Omega/Breitling. Theyre over-priced, over-styled, marketing-led: theyre a resurrected brand name with no real heritage.
Im not sure what surprises me the most: that they dare charge what they do, or that people pay it...
Im not sure what surprises me the most: that they dare charge what they do, or that people pay it...
20 November 2008, 11:24 AM
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Correct, whether I or anyone else likes them is irrelevant.
However we are entitled to an opinion and to share it.
If you really didn't care you wouldn't have whined like a petulant child and resorted to pathetic and juvenile name calling.
As for elitism I believe it's a good thing, rejecting the type of garbage that TAG represents is part of what elevates me from the mire that the dross likes to grut around in.
Best stick to your pints of stella, harvester meals and banality it suits you well.
However we are entitled to an opinion and to share it.
If you really didn't care you wouldn't have whined like a petulant child and resorted to pathetic and juvenile name calling.
As for elitism I believe it's a good thing, rejecting the type of garbage that TAG represents is part of what elevates me from the mire that the dross likes to grut around in.
Best stick to your pints of stella, harvester meals and banality it suits you well.
Look back at your posts on this are any other topic for that matter!
Looks like you have summed yourself up!
20 November 2008, 11:27 AM
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Quidco - The web's cashback cooperative
It's a website you sign up to and they have deals with many many retailers.If you access the retailer websites through the Quidco site you get a percentage back a few months later credited to your bank account.
Have a look at the website,it explains everything you need to know.
20 November 2008, 01:06 PM
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20 November 2008, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by petedotuk
FAIL
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20 November 2008, 01:40 PM
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20 November 2008, 02:07 PM
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If your local Goldsmiths don't play ball.Tell them you'll go elsewhere and tell them you'll just buy it off their website (pretty sure the one you're looking at is there).
Also tell them you're a member of Quidco and you'll get 18% (i think) cashback by doing this.Also,if you take a new credit card out to fund the purchase (ie AMEX who were offering 6% cashback for the first month or so) and that's 24% cashback you will get.
That makes the watch around £1200ish.
Jewellers do have the power to drop prices if you ask the right person..
Also tell them you're a member of Quidco and you'll get 18% (i think) cashback by doing this.Also,if you take a new credit card out to fund the purchase (ie AMEX who were offering 6% cashback for the first month or so) and that's 24% cashback you will get.
That makes the watch around £1200ish.
Jewellers do have the power to drop prices if you ask the right person..
Your patter with quidco and CC wont make the blindest bit of difference. The sales manager will probably most likely laugh and show you the door. A bit like trying to match an inernet price of a car in the dealership showroom.
If you ask, many people are too embarrassed it is likely you can get 10% off a >£1000 item of jewellery. It depends on the shops sales targets at the time.
You are
if you think you can walk into a shop give the above patter and get a £1600 watch for £1200
Its not a car boot sale
20 November 2008, 02:18 PM
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It's perfectly possible to get a main dealer to match internet prices if he's selling something that's not very desirable. Think most Citroens then apply the same thing to the retailers of something in similarly plentiful supply/poor quality.....like a TAG watch for example.
Perhaps what you're saying rings true in the tat parlour your wife works in but there are plenty of established, respectable independent dealers who will cut you a deal without the pathetic attitude of a sales manager who would 'show you the door'. Most likely some snivelling little would be lower middle class wretch in any case- I love breaking those people.......
Perhaps what you're saying rings true in the tat parlour your wife works in but there are plenty of established, respectable independent dealers who will cut you a deal without the pathetic attitude of a sales manager who would 'show you the door'. Most likely some snivelling little would be lower middle class wretch in any case- I love breaking those people.......
20 November 2008, 03:33 PM
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It's perfectly possible to get a main dealer to match internet prices if he's selling something that's not very desirable. Think most Citroens then apply the same thing to the retailers of something in similarly plentiful supply/poor quality.....like a TAG watch for example.
Perhaps what you're saying rings true in the tat parlour your wife works in but there are plenty of established, respectable independent dealers who will cut you a deal without the pathetic attitude of a sales manager who would 'show you the door'. Most likely some snivelling little would be lower middle class wretch in any case- I love breaking those people.......
Perhaps what you're saying rings true in the tat parlour your wife works in but there are plenty of established, respectable independent dealers who will cut you a deal without the pathetic attitude of a sales manager who would 'show you the door'. Most likely some snivelling little would be lower middle class wretch in any case- I love breaking those people.......
Keyboard warrior, face to face you would quiver
20 November 2008, 03:37 PM
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As for your keyboard warrior comments the only chap I've ever met from scoobynet felt the need to disappear from the site straight after I turned up at his office. Some 'cage fighter' he turned out to be.......