The best solution (apart from ebay)

[Umar B]

Hello all

Just wanted to get a few options as to what I can do, I’ve got a collection of watches of varying makes, style and condition (mostly good, but all working) in total there are 30 watches which I’ve either bought to fix or bought to wear. I estimate that there is about £200 worth of watches

Now I’ve decided I want to get rid of them and have just a couple of nice watches. I’ve always fancied a nice Seiko or Citizen bullhead or a retro Seiko Chronograph. Something along those lines

But other than ebay what other options are there? Are there places I could go to trade all these in against one watch? Or just go to a pawn shop :shudder: and get some cash for them, then go buy the watch I want?

Have I missed anything? I could go the ebay route but I try not to use ebay if I can help it.

I’m going to take pictures of them all anyway and create a list so I’ll post pictures of them if anyone is interested.

Thanks for your help

[Civpilot]

Would like to see what you've got, email me a list if you like via my profile.

[tertius]

I would post them for sale individually on a forum like tz-uk.com or thewatchforum.co.uk (you need 50 posts before you can post ads here though).

[Rav]

Let us know what you have got?

PM me?

[Umar B]

Point Taken

Edited by Umar B on Monday 10th September 20:16

[Rav]

You have to careful selling replicas on Ebay, in fact i dont think they allow sales of replicas on there. But you can get round it, howver it is frowned apon.

[Dominic H]

It's illegal to buy or sell replica items anywhere, not just eBay. I don't wish to be rude, but your collection appears to be made up of budget watches or replicas. Neither of which have much of a legal re-sale value. If you want a decent Seiko or Citizen, why not go the Ernest Jones or H.Samuel pick out the watch you want and use their 0% finance? You'll get a perfectly decent watch, at a low monthly cost.
Hope this helps...

[tertius]

Having seen the list, is it OK if I withdraw my suggestion ... ?

Sorry.

[Umar B]

Rav said:

You have to careful selling replicas on Ebay, in fact i dont think they allow sales of replicas on there. But you can get round it, howver it is frowned apon.

thants what i thought, hence the reason for not using ebay, thanks all the same though

Dominic H said:

It's illegal to buy or sell replica items anywhere, not just eBay. I don't wish to be rude, but your collection appears to be made up of budget watches or replicas. Neither of which have much of a legal re-sale value.

you're not being rude at all buddy as i said in my fisrt post, most of them are watches i bought to learn how to fix, the reps were pretty much given to me. i might keep hold of the gold plated citizen as it was the fisrt watch i bought with my paperound money, a wopping £30 it cost!

Dominic H said:

If you want a decent Seiko or Citizen, why not go the Ernest Jones or H.Samuel pick out the watch you want and use their 0% finance? You'll get a perfectly decent watch, at a low monthly cost.
Hope this helps...

don't get me wrong, im not selling these in order to buy a watch, i don't need to go on any interest free offered to get a £1000 watch. i just wanted to sell these on to make a spare change, if you see what i mean.


thanks for the replys though!

[Umar B]

tertius said:

Having seen the list, is it OK if I withdraw my suggestion ... ?

Sorry.

no worries

[tertius]

I just don't think you'll have a lot of luck with that list.

As for it being "illegal" to sell replicas - surely its only an offence if you are trying to pass them off as gernuine?

[Dominic H]

tertius said:

I just don't think you'll have a lot of luck with that list.

As for it being "illegal" to sell replicas - surely its only an offence if you are trying to pass them off as gernuine?

No, it's a straightforward breach of trademark/copyright.