Good First Time Buy

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willy Skrev:Without critics the watch industry or any other industry would run riot over consumers .

<!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: --> The evil watchindustry against the people. I believe the market is much more self-regulating - if a brand does everything wrong it will disappear, People will learn from neighbor, farther - colleagues and friends much more than from us – If all in general are happy with Rolex and Omega, then they will continue to sell. If they make a new lousy watch which breaks down, then that will spread as the news – and that is the self-regulation..
What you write here at this blog is not changing the turnover for Rolex, Omega or Oris in any way that matters.
Sorry to say, you are not Walt Odet – but I agree he may have made a difference, though it is hard to measure those things – maybe he increased the sales of Rolex.

You can no way compare yourself as a watch critic and the influence you (or I) have, with the influence of professional people in automotive business – FDM or whoever, making car tests. People in general read a lot of those and are influenced somehow, but very few watch buyers read vintageure or even the big international sites. The turnover in new watches, coming out of such members is a drop in the sea to the watch industry
Of course you can influence an individual person in a local forum, and that is good and natural, but if you do it, by telling a happy new buyer that he just bought an overpriced watch and will lose on it, then it is just about as intelligent as it would be if your son showed you his new baby, and your only comment was, that the baby looked stupid. Not very helpful to anyone is my point. Case closed -
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