Watch (Price) Question.... - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

dbth · 09-17-2006, 02:21 PM

Suggestion:

In the future this type of thread belongs in the classified section.

UFmatt86 · 09-17-2006, 02:54 PM

I agree, but as I stated before, I just made this post in order to see what this kind of watch went for. I didn't really expect to sell it on here to tell you the truth...it just accidentally got turned into a FS post; my apologies.

z12358 · 09-17-2006, 07:04 PM

"I didn't really expect to sell it on here to tell you the truth"

I know, weird. Who'da thunk. Should have tried a Ferrari forum. I hear they kill for Boxster watches overthere.

Brucelee · 09-18-2006, 05:44 AM

Assuming this was a one time thing, this post to sell the watch would have been fine.

Yes, it would have been better in the classified threads.

And there was no reason for calling Jim names.

Lets all be civil out there!

Thanks

Perfectlap · 09-18-2006, 06:55 AM

I have to agree there have been quiet a few people coming into this forum to 'test the waters'.

First of all nearly everything made by Porsche has a suggested retail price. (Which can easily be found on the internet) or calling your local dealer who has a big book full of Porsche parafanalia. If you are selling nearly new or second hand then obviously the selling price would be lower than the suggested retail.
How much less to charge can be figured out by going to Ebay and doing a search to see what people are bidding. Or visiting a wrist watch forum.

And I don't think the seller of this watch is fooling anyone. C'mon. Most of us that bought our cars with moolah from earning a living and weren't born yesterday.
If the seller was truly just gauging the 2nd hand price there wouldn't have been a need to post the pictures of the actual watch in question. A model number or serial number, with brief description would have sufficed if getting replies on 2nd hand value was the only objective.

UFmatt86 · 09-18-2006, 07:37 AM

Whatever, believe me or not I'll still sleep at night...I will say some people on here are pricks though. Honestly, did I hurt any of you by selling this watch on here? I posted the pictures because there's a limited edition model and this one. Pictures ALWAYS help when assessing a value. I searched google AND ebay, nothing on EBAY and only rennlist came up on google with THE watch that I had. So maybe you guys shouldn't assume so much before you start typing on that keyboard. If I was meaning to sell it I would've put it in the classifieds, but I was planning on putting it on ebay after finding a general price.

IF YOU ALL CLEARLY SAW, I DID NOT INITIATE THE SALE, A MEMBER POSTED HE WANTED TO PURCHASE THE WATCH. Is this MY fault? Jesus some people are so naive.

UFmatt86 · 09-18-2006, 07:42 AM

Perfect lap, all the booklet that came with the watch has in it is 'Boxster Chronograph' Damn that gives a GREAT DESCRIPTION of the item I was trying to guage a price for. There are subsequent Boxster watches made, and I wouldn't expect a dealer to keep everyone accessories booklet from the past 5 years on hand...so I shouldn't have posted pics to show the watch, just to not offend people? Sorry I thought maybe a crowd who owned 'nice' automobiles would be a little more mature than most message boards...guess I thought wrong. The whole reason of pictures was so people could say "Hey, that's the watch I have! Here's what I paid." If I came on here with intent to sell I think I would've admitted it by now, hell the watch is sold and being shipping the Mike today.