zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

Derek,

Thanks for enlightening me. The original question remains however. Two titanium SMP chronos for a bit over $3000? Even if they were referring to two steel ones, it seems remarkably inexpensive. What am I missing here?

Regards

: "Sell Omega over the Internet" is a
: vague concept, as there are multiple parts
: of selling: advertising, product display,
: display of retail prices, display of
: discounted prices and consummating a sale.

: What Omega prohibits their auth dealers from
: doing over the Internet the last two:
: display of discounted prices and
: consummating a sale. Auth dealers cannot
: displaying anything less than retail price
: in any public display or advertisement.
: That's why auth dealers always show retail
: prices, then whip out the calculator to
: verbally describe the discounted price they
: are allowed/willing to give you.

: Neither are they allowed to consummate a sale
: entirely through an automated web site.
: Which is also hard to do when you cannot
: publicly display discounted prices.

: But an authorized dealer is allowed to have an
: Internet site promoting their store,
: mentioning that they carry Omega watches,
: and even displaying retail price
: information.

: And any authorized dealer is allowed to arrange
: a sale by taking a purchase request by
: email, telephone or fax, then ship the
: product to the customer.

: And there are a few UNauthorized dealer web
: sites that are actually fronts for
: authorized dealers selling merchandise out
: their back door. The watch you receive comes
: with papers stamped as if you bought it from
: the authorized dealer, which has a different
: name from the website that you buy the watch
: through.