Security Notes

Please keep in mind that a sellers identity (especially that of private sellers) is not checked by chrono24.com.

Due to the increase in fraud-attempts during the last months please note the following security advice:

For Buyers

  • Never ever pay for a watch via Western Union.
     
  • Do not pay for a watch via bank-wire to a service pretending to be 'Google Checkout'. Google Checkout does not offer payment via bank-wire (only via credit-cards).
     
  • Do not buy via an escrow service that claims to be affiliated with chrono24.com - chrono24.com is currently not offering any escrow-services
     
  • Never pay money in advance to a seller offering transaction handling through an escrow-service by Royal Mail.
     
  • Watch out for spoofed escrow-sites (sites or emails that look like DHL or TNT but are not the real deal)
     
  • Do not buy from a seller acting under one of the following names: 'Yenal Bambetov', 'Dmitry Gordienko' or 'Tamerlan Akhmadov'
     
  • Always check the phone-number given in the ad. Is it working? Is it forwarded to mobile phone? Is the person on the other end 'trustworthy'?
     
  • Be careful with sellers using 'free' E-Mail accounts such as yahoo.com, live.com, aol.com
     
  • If an offer sounds too good to be true: It might just not be true...

For Sellers

  • Be careful with potential buyers that offer a personal handover of cash in Northern Italy (Milan) or Brussels (Belgium).
     
  • Be careful if someone offers you more than the price you asked for.
     
  • Be careful if the buyer asks you to manage the transaction through an obscure escrow-service. While there are reputable escrow companies, unfortunately most of the escrow-sites are faked.
     
  • Be careful if the buyer wants to pay via cheque from a foreign bank. While your own bank might add the funds in your account at first, they will charge the funds back from you in case the cheque bounces at a later time.
     
  • When accepting pre-payments via bank-account please make sure that the funds have been credited to your account irrevocably before shipping. Only rely on statements of your own bank about arrival of funds.