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Outdoors_guy
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Jun 2, 2020
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Great watch - big question is what the price will be.
Jun 2, 2020
lukinid
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Jun 2, 2020
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Outdoors_guyAm I missing something? It's 199.
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Jun 2, 2020
RayF
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lukinid $210 on Amazon, but only in the blue dial version. Have you found better prices?
Jun 2, 2020
tbjs
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Jun 2, 2020
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lukinidYes, you are. Two days ago all these Victorinox popped up, but showed as "Sold Through". A preview, so to speak. These went live this morning with prices...
Jun 2, 2020
Outdoors_guy
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Jun 2, 2020
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RayFFound the black face on amazon at 209 as well: Victorinox Swiss Army Men's I.N.O.X. Watch https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0147DQ1D0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_-gO1EbFCR2K1C It’s a little more, 10$ / 5%, but with free shipping, and the inpatient child within me does not need to wait. Here’s my theory on brand spotlights - Drop is negotiating with brands or maybe even with AD’s of brands just like grey market dealers do. However, the grey market has evolved from mostly being operations that took small orders of any specific model to a market filled with dealers that take huge orders. These grey dealers risk a large amount of their own money by directly buying a large volume of watches, taking ownership with a plan to be able to sell the watches and stuck cash poor until they do. Drop is trying to make deals to purchase a large volume, but they are taking orders first thereby avoiding the financial risk of ownership of product that they have to move. This enabled Drop to get better deals than your average grey market dealers in the past. However, grey dealers are now taking risks, getting deals at least as good as Drop can get. Since the greys already have ownership of the merchandise, they are happy to move it out of the door immediately. Drop has to pass the order to a seller who then has to get the merchandise, hence a delay. In other words, the watch market has evolved and Drop hasn’t.
Jun 2, 2020
RayF
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Outdoors_guy Agree with you on the inventory-less inventory model. MD gets similar deals with the other sources they use (the Heritor supplier comes to mind). As for the grey market thing, I see something else developing--manufacturers producing merchandise specifically for the discount market, in the form of so-called "exclusives." While technically not true grey market merchandise, manufacturers certainly have enough parts laying around (and the production capabilities) to create any number of variant configurations capable of shaving "X" percentage points off "normal" MSRPs and then offering them exclusively to a select group of higher-volume merchants. The net effect is a confusing lineup of bastardized watches that are difficult to cross compare and value. I don't think the boys at Rolex or Omega will be showing up here anytime too soon, but they tend to do the same thing by offering new Limed Editions and/or new color ways, nearly every week--although at that level, it's usually to sell the watch at a higher price, rather than lower ;- )
Jun 2, 2020
lukinid
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Jun 3, 2020
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tbjsOo ok, it make sense now.
Jun 3, 2020
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