By the end of this reading, we hope that you fully understand Grey Market brand name products and watches, fake and replicas products and watches, and will become a better educate consumer. If you are an Ebayer or just a buyer of brand or designer products sold in
Ebay or the internet in general. The information below may be extremely helpful.

Frequent Asked Questions

• What is a Grey Market?

 An informal market anywhere where brand name products, and in our case watches,are sold at a substantial discounted price(over 20%) from its retail value. The discounter is not an authorized retailer of the particular brand sold

• Who creates a Grey Market?

Factories with excess production send the merchandise to their authorized retailer. The authorized retailer unable to sell such high volume and to keep their business with the brand, sell the merchandise to another party.

The party or reseller then sell the merchandise at retail outlets physical stores or online.

• Are Grey Market merchandise and or watches fake or replicas?

No. Products are from the same factory that you can buy at an authorized retailer. However, we see many products that are sold new in the internet and in stores that are actual copies, replicas, and or fake immitations of the factory products.

The consumer must be extremely careful buying new products that say authentic. On line, be aware of private sellers and sellers with ties to China and Estearn Europe. China manufacturing capability is tremendous and very capable or producing unexpensive replicas. Also, countries like Poland, Portugal, Russia, and others have incredible high quality manufacturing capability. Hence, the fake watch cases, dials, expensive pens, and anything metal, shoes, and briefcases, accessories been made by them with absolute quality. Very difficult to the untrainned eyes to know the difference between the real product and the real thing!!

• Does Grey Market products and or watches have factory warranty?

No. Warranties are valid only on product bought at authorized retail channels. However, good retailers or sellers should give you an inhouse warranty similar to the original factory warranty. That's why is so important to buy discounted products at good retailers.

• Does Grey Market products and or watches break more than the ones bought at an authorized retailer?

No. Of course, from time to time, anyone can buy a lemon at an authorized retailer or at a grey market seller.

• Does the factories or procucers of designer merchandise and or watches know their prodcut are sold in the Grey Market?

Yes they do. Factories over produce and demand their retailers to acquire their product anyways. Of course, no factory will admit to the problem....

• About Rolex watches, why I don't see them sold in Grey Market?

Simply because Rolex owns their wholesale and retail channels, hence; controlling the amount of watches sold. BUYERS BE AWARE OF BRAND NEW ROLEX WATCHES SOLD ANYWHERE THAT IS NOT AN ROLEX AUTHORIZED RETAILER.

• Are all brand new watches sold in the internet Grey Market?

Yes. We do not know of any top Swiss brand authorizing internet retailing.

Exception has to be made to one of the greatest master watchmakers of the later part of the 20th century (together with Gerald Genta, Franck Muller, others), Antoine Preziuso, who internet business has been soaring lately.

Honestly, you can't expect a brand that has been existence for 100/200, or 300 years to change...

• Last but not least, should I buy a Grey Market product or watch?

This a decision that one should make!!! We hope that we have shed some light to a lot of EBayers and buyers in general about Grey Market, replicas, and fake products and watches.

Always a pleasure to be able to help someone in the internet world...Marco/Andrea's Fine Watches