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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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Syt

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Ed Anger

Quote from: CountDeMoney on April 11, 2014, 10:03:59 PM
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http://plato.stanford.edu/index.html

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Josephus

So Groupon is offering a $1500 Studer Schild watch for $100.

Surely that can't be. Didn't think Groupon sold knock-offs.

Thoughts?

https://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-ca-studer-schild-mens-wright-watches-1
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mongers

#38344
Quote from: Josephus on April 12, 2014, 02:29:55 PM
So Groupon is offering a $1500 Studer Schild watch for $100.

Surely that can't be. Didn't think Groupon sold knock-offs.

Thoughts?

https://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-ca-studer-schild-mens-wright-watches-1

It's a con.

edit:


Oops, I thought you were asking about groupon, rather than the watch.

edit2:

125USD on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Studer-Schild-Wright-Mens-Watch-STUNNINGLY-SOPHISTICATED-M-S-R-P-1879-/251493800056?pt=Wristwatches&hash=item3a8e32d878
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Syt

#38345
There seems to be an abundance of "luxury" watches that try to look fancy and give themselves an expensive sounding name:

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f2/mushroom-brands-german-french-sounding-names-988507.html

Their trick seems to be to set a high base price and then sell them at "80% off" on places like Amazon which is probably still overpriced.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

mongers

Quote from: Syt on April 12, 2014, 02:43:49 PM
There seems to be an abundance of "luxury" watches that try to look fancy and give themselves an expensive sounding name:

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f2/mushroom-brands-german-french-sounding-names-988507.html

Yeah, couldn't you get a better time piece by just buying a basic $150-200 model from the likes of Seiko etc.
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Maladict

Big earthquake near the Solomons :unsure:

Ideologue

I have a better timepiece called a fucking cellphone.
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CountDeMoney

Quote from: Ideologue on April 12, 2014, 03:55:20 PM
I have a better timepiece called a fucking cellphone.

Generation Assburger.  Get a watch.

Ideologue

Generation X = Boomers who just don't have as much cancer and heart disease yet.  They've called them a silent generation.  If only.
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CountDeMoney

Quote from: Ideologue on April 12, 2014, 03:58:45 PM
Generation X = Boomers who just don't have as much cancer and heart disease yet. 

Hey, I'm working on it.  :mad: 

Assburgers and their impatience.   :rolleyes:


mongers

Quote from: CountDeMoney on April 12, 2014, 03:56:29 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on April 12, 2014, 03:55:20 PM
I have a better timepiece called a fucking cellphone.

Generation Assburger.  Get a watch.

This.
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Razgovory

Never took to wearing watches, but then, I was never in a hurry to go anywhere.  Also don't have a cell phone.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

The Brain

I like wearing a watch. Men don't really get to wear other jewelry (unless they're Persian kings).
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