Just have to laugh.

[Rod]

I passed up on two watches yesterday both in nice condition, as they were both well advertised and my thinking was they would ballon way over what i thought they were worth.

Well what happened 

The first was a Dec 1966 4006-7000, this is the second of the bellmatic's and only available in December 1966 in this configuration (if someone has a Feb 67 version i would love to see it). Notice the "Diaskock" dial, scolloped case and horse shoe case back. 

Well $130 is a great buy in anyones book










The second was a 7018-7000 is nice condition, great price at $155

[seikoholic]

I never find anything cool.

[ninja01]

Yeah, I've had similar things happen here. I'll pass up an auction thinking it'll never EVER come in at a "fair market price". I then go to bed (most of the auctions are timed to be during the day in the West, so late night here). I can't really use the sniping services due to payment methods available to me. Note that in all cases, when I pay for a watch from a Philippine seller, I walk the cash from my bank to their bank (and I have to 1st check that there is a branch of their bank in my city!)... no electronic payment, no credit card, no debit card use on these things!!

Anyway:
I check results the next day, and @#$^$+*%*&*^!!!!  The watch came in much LESS than I'd ever figured & I wish I went after it!! This happened a few times on a certain type of gold-capped 6218 that I'd really like to have, and on some other '60s & '50s dress watches of rather good quality that I was looking @.

Oh well!!

I commiserate with you on that!!

[Groundhog66]

Hard telling what the high bid actually was, sometimes we get our hopes up.

[ninja01]

Aug 19, 2014 16:06:34 GMT -8 Groundhog66 said:

Hard telling what the high bid actually was, sometimes we get our hopes up.

True!!

But ... if you do "go for it", you can at least make darn sure the other guy doesn't get "a steal"

I have done that too!! I bid up to what I consider "fair" (and sometimes more), but don't get it in the end. But, at least I don't end up swearing at myself that the "other guy" got it at a real bargain price!! ... and I didn't! :grrr: LOL!!

[Deleted]

Cool watches. The 7018-7000 you don't often see.

[yorkiesknob]

Sweet as.

[cobrajet25]

I bought this a few years ago on Ebay for the then-enormous sum of $150.  Everyone on the forum at the time thought I was batshit crazy.

"It'll never be worth what you paid for it."

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Aug 20, 2014 2:40:07 GMT -8 cobrajet25 said:

I bought this a few years ago on Ebay for the then-enormous sum of $150.  Everyone on the forum at the time thought I was batshit crazy.

"It'll never be worth what you paid for it."

Nice