zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

There are several people on this site who can steer you to an AD in the United States that sell Omegas between 30% to 33% off MSRP. In addition, if you buy from another state and have the watch mailed to you, you save the sales tax, which is what I did.

As far as Singapore or E-Bay, assume you buy the watch and something goes wrong with it. You send the watch back, and then nothing happens. What can you personally do about it? The answer is VERY LITTLE, if anything.

Watches sold on E-Bay could be any of the following, and NONE of them include the Omega factory warranty:
1. New, bought by a gray market dealer and sold to you with their own warranty.
2. Used, bought by a gray market dealer, and sold to you new.
3. A Frankenwatch, which is an Omega made up out of spare parts bought by a dealer, and sold to you as new, except that Omega never sold a watch EXACTLY like that to begin with.
4. A fake Omega, with blurry pictures that don't fully disguise the various flaws that we all like to make fun of.
5. A fake Omega, with pictures of a REAL Omega posed on E-Bay, and these pictures are sometimes stolen from the private boards of members of this site.
6. A Jackalope watch, which is one that is SO fake that it could have never really existed to begin with. God only knows what you get when the watch actually shows up. If you're lucky, it will be a Timex that actually runs.

Even if you ACTUALLY get a new watch, you don't get the Omega warranty, and if the watch breaks it will be worked on by whoever happens to be the watchmaker du jour attached to this cyberspace company.

The road to hell is paved with the souls of people who tried to save a LITTLE TOO MUCH money when they bought an Omega.....