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A marketplace for chronographs, dive watches and other tool-type wristwatches and timepieces |
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Rules: Postings must be an ad announcing an intent to sell, buy or trade. Full item description and photo(s) must be posted within the message here, not as links to other websites. Links to online auctions and other sites: Links to online auctions, dealer sites or other listings of items are permitted, but you should be careful to ensure that such listings will comply with our other ChronoTrader Policies. In addition, we request that sellers linking to online auctions or listings offer some benefit or accomodation to ChronoTrader readers (for example, some discount or an undertaking to end an auction early, to keep a watch "in the family"). Photos must be of the actual item for sale in its present condition. No counterfeit or replica products. No post for the same item may be repeated within 7 days, except to lower the asking price. Commercial dealers are limited to three unique posts per day. [More...]
For what its' worth, a Dutch Auction is one in which seller starts at a high price, and lowers it from time to time, until someone agrees to buy the item.
What people are doing here are really Informal Auctions . . . or at least that's what we started calling them. Some people don't like this approach; they can feel free to abstain from the bidding. I believe that seller's have achieved some excellent prices in our Informal Auctions, and I have not heard a single complaint from a bidder or buyer. Any auction system has flaws . . . I am happy with people using Chronotrader for Informal Auctions, or Dutch Auctions, or whatever approach they may choose.
Jeff
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: Love the watch - hate Dutch auctions!
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