Q : Does anyone know what happens if you try to make an online registration in the official web page of a TAG HEUER watch purchased by Amazon?
Have anyone had a problem with it or with the authenticity of the watch??
Answer :
E. Sandalls says:
There are conflicting reports about this. What could you lose by going ahead and registering. If the watch is from the grey market, TAG-Heuer's decision to not offer warranty is probably already made, so I don't imagine they will change their mind either way just because you try.
Important question: did you buy the watch from Amazon, or from an independent trader using Amazon just as a market-place for sales over which Amazon seem to have little control? Too many ignoramii are getting their hands on grey-market watches and selling them roughly the way people sell pop-corn at ball games. Any serious watch seller must have a coonsumer satisfaction rating well over 99%, because if you think about the difference between the cost of raw materials and the price of a watch, you'll see you are paying mostly for quality and service. So you should get quality and service!
Grey market watches are nearly always, (just covering my butt in case writing simply "always" proves to be a hostage to fortune), authentic watches, sold outside the manufacturer's Approved Dealer net-work. It seems as if every thread on this forum ends up becoming a discussion about the grey market. Give some of the recent ones a read.
Make you own opinion after that bit of reading. I do not trust grey market sellers I have not met in the "real" world, BUT at the moment, if you are a half-clued-up haggler, you will be amazed by the discounts available in the Approved Dealer networks. You should get enough discount to reduce the price advantage of the grey market watches to the point where the premium paid to an AD is worth it just to have the peace of mind of full manufacturer and AD network support.
Whatever happens, TAG-Heuer make fine watches, albeit frequently over-priced, (see preceding paragraph).
C. Johnson says:
I just registered my watch on the Tag site with no problems. I purchased mine directly from Amazon two weeks ago. It is running fast. I spent about 45 minutes online with Amazon and it was decided that I would send it back for a refund. I have to go back to the local jewelers to have links put back in the band. They don't have anymore of the same watch in stock, so they'll refund my purchase price. I love the watch, but after reading some posts, it seems that this is a common problem. On one hand, like some other posters, one would expect a $2,000 watch to keep time as good as my $250 Lumi-nox. On the other hand, I wonder if its worth the hassle to send it in, wait 2-3 weeks for the refund to hit and then order another one, when available.
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