I wrote once about the $10 watch with the $11 band. That band is now done in but so far I have refused to buy another.
This situation however, was as funny, but as sad. I did have some choices of course, but chose not to use them and went ahead with the expensive option.
Here’s the watch. It’s great, and I wear it often. It’s huge and was $4.80 delivered.
It takes about two weeks plus to get here from somewhere deep in China, sent through a tractable courier service. All this for $4.80! It comes from Deal Extreme, and I have purchased more than 8 or so watches from them. They have a vast warehouse of styles.
I have had this one for more than a year and finally it needed a battery and there was the dilemma! A new battery installed was $10. It was cheaper to order two more for less money! I was not in a hurry, but it seemed stupid to toss away a nice watch that wasn’t broken and just needed a new battery.
I just replaced the battery and put $10 into the Canadian economy rather than $4.80 into the Chinese economy.
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