eBay authentication service

[wesdaniel]

Originally Posted by TimeToGo

The Authenticator gives the buyer the option to buy the item with "whatever" discrepancies are noted with the watch, whether listed or not. They give you a couple of days to decide or engage with the seller for a discount, if that is what the buyer wants to do.

I bought a Rolex on ebay this past weekend. It was shipped to the authenticator on Monday and arrive Tuesday.

Before noon on Tuesday, the authenticator had rejected it and sent it back to the seller. They didn't make any contact with me about the rejection other than to let me know it had been rejected.

According to the seller, it was rejected because the crown was not original to the watch.

I have no way to totally verify this, but, the seller did send me a screen shot of a redacted email from ebay that seemed to support that. Although, images like that can easily be faked, so I don't really know.

This is the first time I've had a watch rejected by Stoll and I've bought probably more than a dozen that were authenticated by them. It looks like this watch has gone around the horn a few times - it has been advertised and sold (not here) at least three times in the last 8 months in different places.