Rant
Anyone else bothered by the terrible pictures taken by people trying to sell watches?
When I am looking for watches to buy, if you don’t have a good picture, how do you expect to sell your watch or attract people to looking at your listing?! I honestly don’t understand the low quality photos, especially on a platform like Chrono24, since it’s made for selling and buying watches.
I’ll give a pass to Facebook marketplace, although I’d say it should be a common sense rule for anything you try to sell…take good pictures!🤦🏻♂️
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The Watch Concierge
Watch collector and addict. I have a YouTube channel where I review affordable watches!
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6.40” / 16.26 cm
I agree, but also think that if this puts other buyers off it can also be an advantage to buy a potentially good watch a little cheaper (not for the seller obvs)
I just assume they’re trying to hide something.
My guess is that there is someone else at home asking whoever to 'cut down your collection, we need X, Y or Z so you can sell a watch or two to pay for it' They take a shitty picture of it, no-one buys it and then everyone moves on! 😜
I can't tell if you are complaining about a few bad pics or if you are saying that all the pics on Chrono24 are bad. If it is the former, I agree that there are a few people who should try harder to get good pics. If it is the latter, then I would say you seem to be expecting catalog photography level skills from everyone, which is an unreasonable position. 🤣
Same issue for selling cars. I got my mum $1,500 more when she sold her car by detailing it and taking proper, detailed photos. Her original photos were pretty bad.
I can't tell if you are complaining about a few bad pics or if you are saying that all the pics on Chrono24 are bad. If it is the former, I agree that there are a few people who should try harder to get good pics. If it is the latter, then I would say you seem to be expecting catalog photography level skills from everyone, which is an unreasonable position. 🤣
Mostly just talking about bad pictures in general and saying that it doesn’t help if you are trying to sell something and the pictures in the listing are shit (blurry, dark, bad angles, barely shows the item, far away and not visible). I guess I feel Chrono24 is more “serious” than Facebook Marketplace and so I expect a listing to have good photos. Doesn’t have to be professional photography on a high quality camera, just as long as it shows the item properly and good enough.