Ours: The Watch Refresh Project – $40 | Theirs: A fake “J. Crew” – $82.00
I was looking around on ebay for watchbands for the timex I got (from your post a while back) and noticed someone selling what appears to be the EXACT same watch and an AE strap for over $80. – a few poor souls appear to have bid on it too. It seems as though he’s trying to sell several of these and calling them “jcrew watches”. I thought you’d be interested to see. I figure whoever it is must have taken your idea.
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Huh. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? Even when the person doing the imitating is ripping people off? Probably just a coincidence, but what’s certain is that there’s something more than fishy going on here.
That’s no J. Crew Timex no matter what the item description says. It’s a T2N228 with a substitute strap. The very same model that was used in our 10 minute watch refresh project from mid April:
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Might be an AE strap, might be a J. Crew strap, but no matter the strap, the watch itself retails for $31.11
The seller is basically marking it up by double. Buyer beware. Especially on Ebay… right?
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Wow… clearly he has pulled this a few times. One unsuspecting soul bought one for over a hundred bucks…
I would have guessed that he got the idea from here, but he listed one of these on March 21. The Watch Refresh Project post went up on April 15. It must be a coincidence.
I thought I have seen this style up on Ebay for a while as “vintage timex military style” (at least 4 months if not 6 months) – not sure if it is the same seller. 1st time I saw it knew it wasn’t “vintage or military”! Gotta love good old creativity.
Points for the detective work… well done.
If you read the item description carefully, the seller is not claiming it to be a J. Crew Watch but rather “Timex Silver-Tone Military Watch with J. Crew Solid Strap.” I don’t think that’s misrepresentation?! The J. Crew reference in the title is used to attract customers searching for J. Crew just like you’ll see reference to Gitman, BoO, Gant, etc. when selling maybe an APC shirt! Therefore, I don’t agree that it’s a fake J. Crew. Sorry.
I can’t say I feel too bad for the people who end up paying big bucks for these kinds of things. Counterfeits, fakes, and knock-offs are so prevalent on Ebay that people should be on their guard, especially about any name-brand merchandise from an unauthorized dealer, and even MORE especially when it is being sold as “new” like this watch. Or at least, they must be willing to accept that what they’re buying (from a faceless seller at an unusually steep discount) is most likely not the real deal.
With all due respect… c’mon man. It’s completely misleading. If there was no intent to be misleading, why is this guy selling a $45 watch setup for $80? And why the big J. Crew logo in the pic? And why the no returns?
There’s no rule as to how much your asking price should be, specially on eBay, so the seller can list it for $0.99 or $999. It’s up to the buyer to pay whatever they like to pay. There are some items on eBay that are much cheaper elsewhere online but some people don’t bother to research and would rather buy on eBay and that’s their choice.
I agree, Joe, that the seller is trying to mislead his (or her) buyers. But in all fairness, as I commented below, there’s an implicit risk in buying branded merchandise on eBay, and this particular posting ought to set off all sorts of alarms in the mind of most buyers. You have to put some effort into being misled by a deal like this.
Right. And he’s taking advantage of that by being misleading. Of course he (or she?) gets to do that. But that doesn’t mean he’s still not being misleading.
Agreed. Same goes for all those watch websites that seem a little too good to be true. I know there are some gems out there, but I have a hard time buying from even a seller on Amazon that’s not at the very least fulfilled by Amazon.
I am guessing that GQ1 is the ebay seller in question…
Caveat emptor.
Fortis est veritas!
legally, this guy’s covered his ass, just like the people that sold empty xbox 360 boxes (like, the cardboard) for hundreds of dollars despite clear indications as to the nature of what was being sold. It’s not hard to make money off stupid people, and a lot of people are making a lot more money by far shadier means than this joker and calling it a living. As to whether he got the idea from Dappered, I personally made myself a faux-Crew watch a few months ago, I just didn’t have the dynamite idea of ebaying it.
haha, good one Logan.
There is a guy on ebay trying to sell Timex Weekender’s for $49.95. He is calling them vintage! He got pissed when I called him out.