Good First Time Buy

[willy]

hannover_dk Skrev:

willy Skrev:And the evil watch industry as you call it , is stealing money out of rich and poor alike . Have you with all of your years of watch intrest never learnt this simple fact ?
I mean do you really believe that without watch dog organizations buisnesses would regulate themselves . Come on John get real .

That is actually now necessarily the fact either. It is without doubt that there are consumer issues which needs ombudsmanden to look at things – but you – as the warrior against the evil watch industry, does not help the consumer one even the smallest way forward.
You see yourself as a warrior fighting the most honest of fights, but it has no effect and is often not even just slightly justified
MANY watch companies are fighting for their life financially, even today. Yes Rolex and Omega – Seiko alongside others, but many other are fighting for survival, and your effort does nothing to help people steering clear of bad buys, they just satisfy your own opinions.
I actually also believe in the automatics of the free market. If people are willing to pay a price and enough watches from a certain brand, then that is the price of that brand. It is not dictated by specialist like yourself of reviews on how good or bad the movement is – it is dictated by many other things. This is what sets the price of a Rolex – or a Seiko or an Oris.
IF some of these factories were cheating or manipulating the market, then the market would detect it, and it would disappear out of the market again, and that does not take you to point the finger at them, the market will regulate itself.
I am not saying that no regulations are needed for consumer goods, but when it comes to the price of watches, against our – your or mine – understanding of quality – then the market will care for that, without our help

Well John i have to disagree with just about everything you write there , but thats nothing new <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: --> <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: --> Without critics the watch industry or any other industry would run riot over consumers . To say that critics have no influence is rubbish in my opinion . Companys have been ruined by critics in the past and will be in the future . To say that the market can regulate its self is not true . Ask Mercedes when they introduced the first A models onto the world . Motor journalists forced Mercedes to change the car . They had to give it ESP at a cost of millions , to make it safe enough to drive . According to your way of thinking a few thousand users should have been killed first before the market regulated its self .

I can only give my opinion of a watch . You can agree or disagree about that opinion . Do people like me have influence about what people buy ? The answer is a big yes . Of course i do if someone asks on this site about buying a watch . And i tell them it is a crap watch ,where you tell them it is a good watch . They might believe you and buy the watch or believe me and not buy it . It is all about who they trust and believe . So to say that anyone who gives an opinion on a watch blogg has no influence is just not true .

Public opinion about any watch brand can make it or break it . That is why they spend so much money buying watch sites and trying to control critics . Ask Rolex about Walt Odets and his criticism of the Explorer caliber . Rolex had to pull out all the stops to try to discredit poor Walt

No it all comes down to who people choose to believe in the end . And you or me have no influence on that . Willy