Buying advice needed pls re using cash or card..

[Goldmember1]

PH Watch Collective,

I am after some advice please.
My wife's gran recently passed away and as a memory of her I am going to buy myself a watch with some of the money she left me.
I am pretty much set on this Omega Planet Ocean Big Size :



Anyway, I plan to buy from a shop rather than online as I prefer to buy something like this face-to-face .. never spent this much on a watch before!
Off Collective experience:
What is the best and "most appealing" form of payment as I plan to do a bit of degotiating on the price..cash, credit card, or debit card?
What are the best shops to go to? ( local to me is the Argyll Arcade in Glasgow City Centre with the usual Watches of Switzerland, Ernest Jones , etc. )
Anything else I should look out for?
Thanks in advance,

Steve

Edited by Goldmember1 on Saturday 25th February 12:57

[Stuart]

Here's what I would do:

- Go to the shop, see that you like it, try it on, and haggle as much as you can to get the best price. Just like a car there's margin all of these things and even high street stores like Goldsmiths WILL discount. I think you should start at 25% and consider somewhere between 10 and 20% discount a good result.

Then, DO NOT BUY THE WATCH.

Talk to Dominic_H on here, and see what he can do for you on the price. What you'll get will be a UK watch, supplied by a UK jeweller and with a correctly stamped UK warranty card. The difference will be that he may (depending on how good a haggler you are) get a better deal for you. He'll take a small amount out of that discount for himself, but ultimately you'll probably get what you want for less than you thought.

Dominic has premises in Hatton Garden and will I'm sure be very happy to let you do a face to face pick up. When I collected my watch he also sized the bracelet for me there and then, which is obviously really important.

However if you're planning to do it yourself anyway, in my experience cash or card makes little difference to their willingness to haggle.

HTH

[Goldmember1]

jj12345 said:

What!? Well it'd be rude not to Even better that it was the wife's idea!

Stuart .. Thank you for all that info . I've already been into 1 jewellers and tried 1 on but didn't start any negotiations until I consulted on here !
Interesting that it doesn't seem to matter what method of payment .. I'm in business myself and between the banks charging 60p per £100 cash banked and average 3% charges for Credit Card payments we much prefer Debit Cards , although we don't handle sales in the £2000 - £3000 bracket!

Thanks again,
Steve

[Goldmember1]

jj12345 said:

Sorry - didn't mean for that to come across in a rude way - just made me smile that an orange Planet Ocean is going to remind you of Granny...was she in to scuba diving? :P

You didn't no worries .. No , just thought that it's a nice watch that's a bit more bold and different to my sedate Tissot PRC200 ( black faced Chronograph ) and Hugo Boss ( white faced Chronograph ) .

[graeme4130]

When mine passes away, I might buy a Ferrari 458 in memory of her mobility scooter !

Sorry, back on topic.
That's a great choice of Watch, and as said above, I'd recommend speaking to Dominic as he's come in significantly cheaper on a Tag for me recently than I could get negotiating in the high street. He'll be where my cash goes on my next Purchase

[Ikemi]

I think Dom is on holiday at the moment, so if you do send him an e-mail, he might not reply straight away ...

[Pesty]

dont get the funny

seems perfectly sensible. what am i missing

[Tiggsy]

your wife's gran? I'm not sure I'd even know what my wife's gran is even called...come to think of it...I'm not even sure if she's alive??