Quote Originally Posted by Haywood_Milton View Post
Private sellers may also have failings.

When describing a watch they wish to part-exchange, they might say "...almost perfect, worn only three times."

On receipt, it is clear that those three times were 1998-2007 while working as a dry-stone waller, 2008-2014 while clearing barbed wire in a desert environment and 2015-2021 while wrestling a gorilla with a live soldering iron in a touring circus.
"Minty"