Slickdeals !!! for those who miss 11 April half price sales!

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nbg wrote:When I saw the OPs initial post on this thread with links to "sale" items I went to the CW site and clicked on "half price spring event" - the watches shown by the OP were not showing. I clicked on the "clearance" - the items were not showing.

As far as I was concerned, the answer was quite simple - if they were not visible by the above means they were not in the sale.

Just sayin.

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That does clear things up for me, thanks.

So:
1. the links OP supplied show watches that are not in fact displayed in the official Half Price page.
2. they would have needed to be unearthed by a user's own active manual intervention, by doing some form of 'hopeful" additional text search to trawl CW's site.

That shows weakness in the website, but not that CW actually offered these items for sale nor issued an invitation to treat in respect of them.

There are always people who like to try to find hidden webpages. I remember when someone unearthed a CW page for a bespoke watch order. It was interesting to view a new design for an existing model, but I can't imagine that if someone outside of the group who commissioned those watches actually tried to place an order for them and CW said no, that anyone would complain.

I also remember someone unearthing pages showing some new model that had not been officially announced yet. Again, it gave us members an early peek at a new model, which was fun, but those pages had not been made public yet. If some test price was listed but the final price was higher, you can't hold CW to the earlier price.
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asqwerth wrote:
nbg wrote:When I saw the OPs initial post on this thread with links to "sale" items I went to the CW site and clicked on "half price spring event" - the watches shown by the OP were not showing. I clicked on the "clearance" - the items were not showing.

As far as I was concerned, the answer was quite simple - if they were not visible by the above means they were not in the sale.

Just sayin.

Neil
That does clear things up for me, thanks.

So:
1. the links OP supplied show watches that are not in fact displayed in the official Half Price page.
2. they would have needed to be unearthed by a user's own active manual intervention, by doing some form of 'hopeful" additional text search to trawl CW's site.

That shows weakness in the website, but not that CW actually offered these items for sale nor issued an invitation to treat in respect of them.

There are always people who like to try to find hidden webpages. I remember when someone unearthed a CW page for a bespoke watch order. It was interesting to view a new design for an existing model, but I can't imagine that if someone outside of the group who commissioned those watches actually tried to place an order for them and CW said no, that anyone would complain.

I also remember someone unearthing pages showing some new model that had not been officially announced yet. Again, it gave us members an early peek at a new model, which was fun, but those pages had not been made public yet. If some test price was listed but the final price was higher, you can't hold CW to the earlier price.
Agree with your comments to an extent, however if we forget the links that have since been deleted for a moment, no major investigation was required to find said watches. It was simply a case of clicking on the magnifying glass icon (search) and searching trident with a low > high price and they appeared with the reduced prices. Same also for the C1000.
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felt sorry for those gent or ladies who brought from the link, the fund should be refunded.

thought those watches still have stock and listed on CW website, and quickly post here to share the news.

lesson learned, i think CW watch is really well made, quality and look smart, it is too good that we can get recent bargain deal especially very fair price for a nice watch, and appreciated for that.

quite worry on their website / inventory error, as to my understanding an online business should really take care the web portal / system.
Hopefully from the error we see today not repeat in future, eventually we found the loop hole / error.

read thru each post and solute everyone put effort to share comments and felt warm because all of us are watch enthusiast, all of sudden i think out of the wall, man, CW watch lead us spend our precious time on this forum...cheers!
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I am finding all of this very confusing. I placed an order, for which I promptly received an acknowledgement. Then I saw Kip's posting about the links being obsolete. Today, I received a dispatch email to say my order was on it's way. What is going on?
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Old Bald One wrote:I am finding all of this very confusing. I placed an order, for which I promptly received an acknowledgement. Then I saw Kip's posting about the links being obsolete. Today, I received a dispatch email to say my order was on it's way. What is going on?
I think it depends which link you used. Links via the Half Price Spring Event should be ok.
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Kip was referring to non-public links (apparently pointing to discounted watches) that the original poster posted in this thread. People clicked on them and tried to purchase said watches, rather than visiting the actual Half Price webpage on CW's official website to view the watches available there.
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asqwerth wrote:Kip was referring to non-public links (apparently pointing to discounted watches) that the original poster posted in this thread. People clicked on them and tried to purchase said watches, rather than visiting the actual Half Price webpage on CW's official website to view the watches available there.
As opposed to at least one watch, listed in the bonafide half-price sale, which sold 31 times despite there being only 6 on hand.
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I'm sorry to disagree with Kip, but they were links to the CW main site and not a staging site - the destination urls were identical whether you searched via the website or clicked the links!
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I actually used one of the OP's links and ordered a Typhoon, which didn't appear in the half price sale. It will be interesting to see if/when it arrives.
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I am supprised when see your post, does it mean that they haven't email you to say "sorry...blar blar...not stock" and refund?

Old Bald One wrote:I actually used one of the OP's links and ordered a Typhoon, which didn't appear in the half price sale. It will be interesting to see if/when it arrives.
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No I haven't received any such email.
According to the courier's website, the delivery is on it's way and should be delivered some time today!
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thanks for prompt reply, double supprised! good look! hope you get the watch asap! :)
Old Bald One wrote:No I haven't received any such email.
According to the courier's website, the delivery is on it's way and should be delivered some time today!
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Old Bald One wrote:No I haven't received any such email.
According to the courier's website, the delivery is on it's way and should be delivered some time today!
I think everyone will be watching for an update on this delivery.
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Old Bald One wrote:No I haven't received any such email.
According to the courier's website, the delivery is on it's way and should be delivered some time today!
So Kip, what are the correct informations about those dead links?
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I have no further information and only know what I was told.

At the time, when I looked at the website for the models that were in the OP's links, they did not appear in the clearance section. I did not do a search.

CW admits that they were a bit slow in deleting the items from the staging site, but they were in process. My own check confirmed the items were not in the clearance section. I am not technical enough to explain/determine more than that.
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