Have thought long and hard about this for a couple of days and have decided I should post my recent experience just in case.

I have just posted my Hamilton Chrono-matic on Chronotrader forum, and I received a trade off of an Omega Speedmaster from a guy called Jose R Bueiz.

He only sent me a wrist shot of his watch so I replied saying I was interested but could he send me more details, such as model ref, age etc.

He subsequently sent all the relevant info including a partial serial number and all looked good, until I went on line to check prices. The first thing I looked at was an identical age and ref Speedy sold on watchuseek last month. When I read the ad it was the actual same watch, serial number, everything. In fact, the wording of his email was a cut and paste of the watchuseek ad. The ad was not posted under the name Jose R Bueiz, was from October 2014, and the watch was marked as sold.

I then emailed him back and asked him how long he had owned it and he said a year (his reply was also accompanied by a lot of exclamation marks).

I responded that it was strange as the watch was marked as having been sold last month on watchuseek, and he just replied saying "no problem!!!!!!".

I feel that I should post this as a warning of a possible scammer, as it seems very suspicious, as does his reaction. also, at no time was i asked anything about the watch i am selling, which again is odd.

Before posting this I also searched for Jose R Bueiz's name on the forum and the search came up blank. Obviously I don't want to cast aspersions or tarnish the reputation of a stand up member of a forum that I am fairly new to, and will delete this and apologise if this turns out to be the case. But i thought I should post it.