Horology house3/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In these stories there are always three sides to the story: Your side, his side, and the truth. The story allegedly includes everything needed to make the cut for the next Michael Bay movie: Bushfires, Volcano explosions, Rescue Missions, International transactions gone wrong, Potential (tax) fraud, Large amounts of money, Expensive goods, Fake goods… and the list seems to keep on growing. As a result of the aforementioned palmares, he would be considered a Trusted seller by most. Horology House also ran a website (currently ‘taking a break’) by the same name where watch related items were sold. In addition, the man behind Horology House is the founder of Australia’s largest Facebook classifieds group for watch sales, Australian Watch Buy, Swap and Sell (AWBSS), and on top of that also a prominent moderator at the Australian Watch Forum (AWF) . Horology House, managed by Christopher Essery, is was a prominent presence on YouTube, responsible for a number of beautiful videos covering equally beautiful watches. The last couple of days news has been circulating that Horology House is at the very center of (more than a few) of such handshake deals having gone wrong. In this case, the seller was Horlogy house, a prominent member and indeed trusted seller within the (Australian) watch community. That rule is that above anything, always buy the seller first. What aggravates this specific case is that the most holy of rules in buying a watch got trampled on. In the unfolding case, since nicknamed by the community as ‘the Horology House scam’, a few transactions allegedly didn’t quite work out. Once in a while it doesn’t work out, and blow-back can be quite fierce indeed. Yes, watches worth (tens of) thousands of dollars are bought and sold in this way on a daily basis around the globe. For example trust that the established members of the community – the ‘trusted sellers’ – are bonafide and transactions will go through based on nothing more than a handshake. The online watch community is almost entirely built on trust. ![]()
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