Post by seikoholic on Aug 3, 2013 9:56:16 GMT -8
My wife went out yesterday and did some erranding. While out she stopped in at Arc Thrift and found a watch for me as a joke, for $5.99. A Casio Data Bank 300 / dbc-310 from '97.
It was in sharp condition, nice looking and clean. Opening it up, it looked new inside. I swapped out the battery, and the whole thing came back to life instantly. Because these models had data protection, the watch's memo function was stuffed with someone's phone contacts and reminders. The person appears to have been Korean based on the names. That was interesting. I've left them for now simply because I haven't researched how to reset the entire watch, and deleting each contact character by character would take forever.
I did a quick bit of searching online about the model. While there's a lot online, it's mostly out of date retail information. There are two eBay listings however. One is for a NIB example for almost $500 which seems ridiculous. There's another one that's used with one bid at $120. Why would anyone pay $120 for one of these? I'm thinking the seller is using a second account to put in a starting bid to get more action, but then I'm a suspicious bastard. However, I also found a current place to buy a replica version... for $80.
Any input people?
It was in sharp condition, nice looking and clean. Opening it up, it looked new inside. I swapped out the battery, and the whole thing came back to life instantly. Because these models had data protection, the watch's memo function was stuffed with someone's phone contacts and reminders. The person appears to have been Korean based on the names. That was interesting. I've left them for now simply because I haven't researched how to reset the entire watch, and deleting each contact character by character would take forever.
I did a quick bit of searching online about the model. While there's a lot online, it's mostly out of date retail information. There are two eBay listings however. One is for a NIB example for almost $500 which seems ridiculous. There's another one that's used with one bid at $120. Why would anyone pay $120 for one of these? I'm thinking the seller is using a second account to put in a starting bid to get more action, but then I'm a suspicious bastard. However, I also found a current place to buy a replica version... for $80.
Any input people?
