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Re: Buying a an expensive watch for boyfriend?

This is spam isn’t it?

You have a yahoo email address that you shouldn’t have published. You say that you heard that the company is a good place to buy watches – but you don’t say how you know that this is so.

You then say, “I have no idea if their prices are true.” Do you see a discrepancy here?

On another matter, you are about to spend a considerable sum on a watch as a present for someone else. Do you think it might be an idea to ask your boyfriend before handing over this sort of money for a watch and from a company you know little about?

If you have that much money, why are you bothered the possibility of saving a few dollars from a firm you know little about?

Finally, this is a forum for fake watches – are you suggesting the watches at the site may be fake?

I am always a little wary about buying from “found it cheaper – we will do our best to beat the price” places. Ask yourself:

1. Why do they want me to do the work of looking for better bargains?
2. Why do they want me to call them and speak to their sales personnel?
3. Why am I doing all the work here?
4. Why don’t they say, “We will beat it by $1000?” The mark-up on these watches are huge. In theory, all they have to do is offer you it for 1 cent less and their words are true, yet they only offer to “try” to beat it – what does that mean?

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