How do you sell your watch?
How does one sell a watch? Not where.
I feel that I need to thin the herd a bit and have never sold a watch before.
There are plenty of WC advise for where to sell. But, how does one go about the process of selling from start to finish?
Let’s say I have a watch I want to sell and I know what medium/marketplace I am placing it on to be sold. How many photos do you take? Do you take the case back off?
Do you check the caliber, movement, and offer the details. How detailed. Do you measure the watch? Lug width? Do you include the strap?
Some of the questions stem from a vintage or used watch with no paper work or box. How thorough are you in your breadth and width with information.
Are you at a price to sella’s is now with no wiggle room or are you more of Let’s make a deal?
Are you passing the shipping and handling fees along to the buyer?
How do you account for the fees from the site ?
When you ship the watch how Fort Knox is the package ? Bubble wrap and all or just slap in an envelope and know that Fed/Ups is always very careful.
Thank you.
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The answer is probably going to depend on the price of what you’re selling. I buy and sell affordable pieces, generally don’t buy anything over €1000 and therefore don’t sell anything for more than €500, so people don’t generally need to know exactly how accurate the watch is, I just give them the movement name, all the case measurements, whether the manufacturer’s warantee is still active and in the case of quartz watches, when the battery was changed.
As far as shipping I keep all my watch boxes which makes it easier, I don’t wrap the watch in it’s box, but I pack the watch box into a shipping box (I reuse those as well) with either shipping papper or bubble wrap, even the most careful courier can drop something once in a while.
Like I said I’m in the affordable price range I can see how if I was buying a luxury watch I may want a bit more.
Sell on eBay or to a local watch dealer for higher end. I just take the pictures describe best I can and package it with bubble wrap and only ship priority (personal preference).
I’m pretty open to negotiation due to the fact I only sell to pacify larger purchases
Sell on eBay or to a local watch dealer for higher end. I just take the pictures describe best I can and package it with bubble wrap and only ship priority (personal preference).
I’m pretty open to negotiation due to the fact I only sell to pacify larger purchases
Appreciate it.
Thank you for the input.
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