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Crappy bags on sale. Pedro thought when he first saw it that it was "that bag". You'll know the one because it has been heavily advertised and costs over £1000. These bags (in 4 colours) are £24.99 and are leatherette😵‍💫. They should have charged over £100 for it.

Interesting way of selling crap because if Muriel doesn't know what bag he's talking about she will assume she should know.

People in shopping malls will look at you and wonder if its "that bag". But he's not comparing it to "that bag".

He said don't tell anyone what you paid for it! And Muriel's in, and Betty👍
 
Muttley said:
Crappy bags on sale. Pedro thought when he first saw it that it was "that bag". You'll know the one because it has been heavily advertised and costs over £1000. These bags (in 4 colours) are £24.99 and are leatherette😵‍💫. They should have charged over £100 for it.

Interesting way of selling crap because if Muriel doesn't know what bag he's talking about she will assume she should know.

People in shopping malls will look at you and wonder if its "that bag". But he's not comparing it to "that bag".

He said don't tell anyone what you paid for it! And Muriel's in, and Betty👍
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Just more of their devious underhand sales techniques, mention something without mentioning it, by which point you've planted the seed in the minds of gullible viewers, equating the tat you're flogging to more expensive alternatives.
 
Muttley said:
Crappy bags on sale. Pedro thought when he first saw it that it was "that bag". You'll know the one because it has been heavily advertised and costs over £1000. These bags (in 4 colours) are £24.99 and are leatherette😵‍💫. They should have charged over £100 for it.

Interesting way of selling crap because if Muriel doesn't know what bag he's talking about she will assume she should know.

People in shopping malls will look at you and wonder if its "that bag". But he's not comparing it to "that bag".

He said don't tell anyone what you paid for it! And Muriel's in, and Betty👍
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He said yesterday that it would be the only time we would see these bags, yet here they are again.
 
Muttley said:
No comparison bag exists. Sally did something similar the other day. Must be their latest technique to con gullible people into buying crap.
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Like Sall-i a few months back flogging unbranded boots and literally saying ...

'I think these might be the well known ones you've all heard of but without the tag. Those sell for many times more.'

Followed by a wink.

Blatant outright LYING.
 
galesgal57 said:
He said yesterday that it would be the only time we would see these bags, yet here they are again.
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Let's say he was doing the presentation at 2pm on Monday 20th May 2024. What he meant was viewers wouldn't see the product again at 2pm on Monday 20th May 2024.

That's not to say it might not reappear at 3pm on Monday 20th May 2024, or any other time/date thereafter ;)
 
cheeky chappie said:
Like Sall-i a few months back flogging unbranded boots and literally saying ...

'I think these might be the well known ones you've all heard of but without the tag. Those sell for many times more.'

Followed by a wink.

Blatant outright LYING.
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The one I heard her say was when she was selling bengalines. She spoke about that shop that has the entire wall filled with them "you know the shop I'm talking about" and "we're a lot cheaper than they are".

I do frequent shops on a regular basis and have no idea what shop she claimed to be talking about. But there doesn't have to be one because she thinks Ethel and Gladys won't have a clue.
 
Muttley said:
The one I heard her say was when she was selling bengalines. She spoke about that shop that has the entire wall filled with them "you know the shop I'm talking about" and "we're a lot cheaper than they are".

I do frequent shops on a regular basis and have no idea what shop she claimed to be talking about. But there doesn't have to be one because she thinks Ethel and Gladys won't have a clue.
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The only shop I have seen them in is Roman Originals.
 
galesgal57 said:
More exorbitant prices for Duchamp. Put it on your household insurance. What a load of old cobblers. Last of the stock, yeah right.
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Dr. Edwards needs to pop next door and have a serious word in the Boss’s ear. I think he said Chrissie Boy Duchump had moved very close to him and they both drunk in the same boozer.
 
The man is deluded and talks pure hokum.

He claims the surgeon who did his (lobotomy) procedure praised his skin for its elasticity which is all down to collegen and that he thought he would lose his hair ten years ago. I've got unwelcome news for him - he did all but for a few tufts at the front and sides.

I dont like to rain on anyone's parade but when they are blatantly conning others I'll make an exception.

Total fraudster.
 
Professor Branestawm said:
I know what you mean, but in fairness there are lots of brands who went under in the quartz crisis and have been resurrected since.
Matthey -Tissot are a tiny, resurrected, brand for sure, and I would expect that in part they are relying on brand confusion to boost sales, but in their automatic watches, they use stock Selitta SW200-1 mechanisms, in the main, so they can be repaired, and serviced, just like most Oris, or Raymond Weil, or CW etc…
Some watch forums are a bit extreme - I think people sometimes post on them to vent, when they’ve bought a Friday-afternoon watch, or they just had wrong expectations of what they would get. A good example, and very similar in many respects, would be Dreyfuss & Co. Now they are part of Rotary who were bought out by the Chinese a few years back. I think now that they own Eterna as well, Dreyfuss is taking a back seat. Anyway, they used ETA 2824-2 calibres in the main, often with Dubois-Dupraz 2021 modules attached to provide Chrono, or other add-on complications (probably not the best practice, really - I’d expect an ETA 2892A2 if a module were being added- it’s just a stronger base calibre, but it’s far from terrible). When ETA stopped providing to independents, they started to use Selitta SW200-1 just like Christopher Ward, or Oris, or Raymond Weil, etc…
But Dreyfuss - like Matthey Tissot - get really bad reviews, and I never understood why. I can repair them easily, and cheaply, and the cases are well made, the crystals sapphire etc.
So I guess what I’m saying is that they aren’t Tissot, and some of their designs are, well, to me an acquired taste (the tiger watch, in particular, I find really ugly) but I don’t see them as quite so bad as the usual IW watches.

And if there’s a Matthey-Tissot automatic that you liked, and it was say £300-£500, I’d see it as a reasonable purchase.
But I’d rather have a Tissot Visodate - especially with the blue dial! I think Hammy also has a Visodate?
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Would agree with the first bolded part, a lot of snobbery, bias and ignorance. back a few years ago (when a lot of the info in these posts originated), any mention China with a watch (ownership, watch parts, made in China etc) and the usual response on forums was crap, ****, don't touch with a barge pole, but now it's the reverse and Swiss Made is a rip off, crap, **** etc and San Martin, Addiesdive et al with their NH35s are the bees knees, greatest things since sliced bread, most of this has been led by the hundreds of reviewers on youtube etc, with their free samples from the brands to give unbiased reviews. On Dreyfuss have a few, all have SW200-1 in them, also have a few Rotary watches with a variety of movements, ETA2824, ETA2836-2, SW200-1 all made when they were part of the Chinese Haidian group which name change to the City Champ group.

Yeah i have the Blue Visodate, i got mine 5 years ago, when it was half the price it is now. :eek:

I've read about Mathey-Tissot, going under in the quartz crisis and Chinese investors to the rescue before, strangely, when questioned for a source to this info the folks posting it said they had read from a poster on another forum. The only info i ever found was the American Mathey Tissot distributor took over the company as it struggled during the crisis, before Alberto Frigerio (along with SWP) bought it in 2014 (he had been CEO since 94). During the quartz crisis, like Roamer, they stopped making mechanical movements and concentrated on quartz and their main market was the Far East (probably reason for some of the Chinese design watches, it's still one of their bigger markets and why they and Roamer were only remembered for their vintage watches as they were less well know here once things took off again). Of course they don't have their own watch production anymore and as best i can find out, they are either made by a 3rd party watchmaker in Chassio (Tan SA) or in the same facilities as Roamer & Swiss Military by Hanowa in Medrissio (Watchmakers, which is a brand owned by FM Swiss Logistics SA, they also seem to control Roamers & Swiss Military as well now).
I've a few Mathey-Tissot from ebay, Jomashop etc, automatic movements used in them are ETA 2824, Valjoux 7750 and Sellita SW200-1, quartz movements used are Ronda 1009 and ETA G10. 212 AN PWD not quite the movements you expect from a "dogshit brand". Okay some of their designs are not everybody's taste, but they are far from producing crap watches.

PS

Also have the Junghans 'Meister Telemeter' with their J880.3 caliber which is in reality isthe ETA 2892/ Dubois Depraz 2030 module.
 

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