IN SEARCH FOR THE RELIABLE DEALER

Update - October 15, 2004: Since writing this article I have decided to discontinue my search and open the forum on June 28, 2004. Right now there are many reliable dealers that are members of the forum, so I felt no need to look for the reliable dealer any further.

Even though I have clearly stated on every single contact form on my website, that I do not make any recommendations on replica dealers, I keep getting e-mails from people saying that they are totally lost and do not know where to buy replica watch. After reading my "sites to avoid" list they are left with very little choice. Well, I simply cannot ignore these requests any more, so I have decided to start a search for the best possible replica dealer on the Internet.

Well, after a week or so of researching I came to a conclusion that this is not going to be a very easy task.

My first step was to disregard the websites, without doing any detailed research on them, that had or did not have one or more of the following:

1. No authentic pictures.

I don’t think that any serious dealer should have a hard time taking authentic pictures of their watches. The only reason I see for not taking pictures, is that their watches do not look like the ones on the pictures, therefore look worse, or they do not have any replicas in their inventory, but are only trying to get your money and send you nothing in exchange.

2. All the website that have Google PageRank = 0.

The reason for this is that since these websites have PR 0, they are probably new and unestablished. Even though some of these websites might be reliable, they have simply not been around long enough.

The other possible reason is that no one wants to link to them as they are scam website. Or they do not want to bother to build link popularity (important for good search engine rankings), because they know that their website will not be around for too long. So they pay for advertising, scam certain number of people, and then disappear.

3. Websites that are hosted on free servers.

If the dealer cannot afford to buy a regular domain name and get their website hosted professionally, how did they manage to buy replicas for their inventory.

After dropping all the websites that fall into one or more of these categories, I did more extensive research on the remaining websites. List up to this point dropped from almost hindered of websites to around 10.

So second step was to e-mail all of the dealers and see how fast and how professionally they will answer to e-mails. Here I ran into major disappointment when one of my favorite websites, the site I was probably going to recommend, had their e-mail box full! Yes, that’s right, my e-mail did not even reach them, but came back to me.

As of right now I’m down to only three websites. On these three I will do a more extensive research, such as (next to all other things) checking who is linking to them, who are they linking to, check WHOIS database, who is hosting their website, how many complaints I received about them so far (if any) etc.

I am expecting to make my final decision not earlier than mid of July.

Thank You

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