26 May 2012, 04:04
Hello Old led pulsar enthusiasts.
My name is Phil and I am new on the forum. I had the permission from a moderator of this forum to put forward a problem of mine. This is to be a warning to all that do business with others to get your old pulsar fixed.
I started appreciating vintage led watches having fun looking at them on Ebay and reading about them on Google. One day I decided to make the jump and got a very well preserved P2 Date II. What a wonderful piece of technology mixed with artistic design, simple and perfect!
This is the real watch:
After a couple of days, the batteries needed changing. When I had to reset the date on it, my left button was not working. I went to a watch forum (http://www.dwf.cc/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=615) and asked about the proper method to repair the damn thing. A very knowledgeable person told me he could repair it and did this all the time. I was thanking the Gods!
The person told me to send him the watch, and to send him the $40 us fee with Paypal return shipping included and that he would return the watch in about a week or so with a tracking number. I sent him the watch and paid right away. He confirmed that he received the watch and started his procedure. This was late December 2011. After a couple of weeks I started asking questions about the item on the forum and the "Old Pulsar specialist" started talking about switches and magnetism and super technological items he needed to build to get the job done since this was a very complicated operation. I needed to arm myself with patience.
I was getting a weird feeling about it at that point but the gentleman was well behaved and seemed to be well known and priced by the old pulsar community of the forum, so I stayed calm and left the destiny of the patient in the hands of the "doctor"!
After another couple of weeks I started to ask questions again and the repair man called me at home and told me that he had sent the watch back a long time ago and that I should have received it by now! I asked for the tracking number and he told me that he had none and that he had lost the post office slip. My watch was lost in space!
He then told me that if I had not receive it by April 30th that he would replace it with one from his collection. I was suspiciously relieved but still getting this feeling of being taken for the idiot that sent a expensive watch out to a complete stranger.
After that, nothing!
, the old man never answered his phone nor did he answer his personal messages on the forum. I asked the users for help to locate this person and that brought me to this wonderful place where this individual is still active or was.
I know that I will never see my watch again and that the chances that I get it replaced by him are close to none but needed to get this out in the open to expose this person and make him know that he is not a old-fashioned, honest guy he was stating he was. He is a thief, a liar and a hypocrite and I will never forget his name.
Thank you for your time, peace!
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Here is his last message to me:
Sent: Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:06 am
From: brucewegmann
Because I haven't found the shipping slip, they are going to have to do a physical record search. That is, go through all their shipping records by hand. I'm told that will take "some time". I'm hoping a few days, at most (in the meantime, I am continuing the hunt for the paperwork that must be here, somewhere). I'll call you the minute I hear anything from the post office. If this package was damaged or misdirected, I'm told it should eventually find its' way back here. So, hold a positive thought, and wish me luck...
Bruce Wegmann (858) 565-7038
P.S. Just to dispel any worry you might have about this, I put this in writing:
If your watch is not found by the end of the month (April 30th), I will pull an identical one out of my collection, and FedEx it to you at my expense. I do this for two reasons. First, I'm a old-fashioned, honest guy, and second, I'm confident this watch WILL be found (just probably not as soon as either of us would like). BTW, one thing I did NOT do (which I will always do from now on) is record the serial number. If you have a picture of the back that shows it, or you just have a record of it, please send it to me; it might prove useful.
My name is Phil and I am new on the forum. I had the permission from a moderator of this forum to put forward a problem of mine. This is to be a warning to all that do business with others to get your old pulsar fixed.
I started appreciating vintage led watches having fun looking at them on Ebay and reading about them on Google. One day I decided to make the jump and got a very well preserved P2 Date II. What a wonderful piece of technology mixed with artistic design, simple and perfect!
This is the real watch:
After a couple of days, the batteries needed changing. When I had to reset the date on it, my left button was not working. I went to a watch forum (http://www.dwf.cc/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=615) and asked about the proper method to repair the damn thing. A very knowledgeable person told me he could repair it and did this all the time. I was thanking the Gods!
The person told me to send him the watch, and to send him the $40 us fee with Paypal return shipping included and that he would return the watch in about a week or so with a tracking number. I sent him the watch and paid right away. He confirmed that he received the watch and started his procedure. This was late December 2011. After a couple of weeks I started asking questions about the item on the forum and the "Old Pulsar specialist" started talking about switches and magnetism and super technological items he needed to build to get the job done since this was a very complicated operation. I needed to arm myself with patience.
I was getting a weird feeling about it at that point but the gentleman was well behaved and seemed to be well known and priced by the old pulsar community of the forum, so I stayed calm and left the destiny of the patient in the hands of the "doctor"! After another couple of weeks I started to ask questions again and the repair man called me at home and told me that he had sent the watch back a long time ago and that I should have received it by now! I asked for the tracking number and he told me that he had none and that he had lost the post office slip. My watch was lost in space!
He then told me that if I had not receive it by April 30th that he would replace it with one from his collection. I was suspiciously relieved but still getting this feeling of being taken for the idiot that sent a expensive watch out to a complete stranger.After that, nothing!
, the old man never answered his phone nor did he answer his personal messages on the forum. I asked the users for help to locate this person and that brought me to this wonderful place where this individual is still active or was. I know that I will never see my watch again and that the chances that I get it replaced by him are close to none but needed to get this out in the open to expose this person and make him know that he is not a old-fashioned, honest guy he was stating he was. He is a thief, a liar and a hypocrite and I will never forget his name.
Thank you for your time, peace!
-------------------------------------------------------
Here is his last message to me:
Sent: Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:06 am
From: brucewegmann
Because I haven't found the shipping slip, they are going to have to do a physical record search. That is, go through all their shipping records by hand. I'm told that will take "some time". I'm hoping a few days, at most (in the meantime, I am continuing the hunt for the paperwork that must be here, somewhere). I'll call you the minute I hear anything from the post office. If this package was damaged or misdirected, I'm told it should eventually find its' way back here. So, hold a positive thought, and wish me luck...
Bruce Wegmann (858) 565-7038
P.S. Just to dispel any worry you might have about this, I put this in writing:
If your watch is not found by the end of the month (April 30th), I will pull an identical one out of my collection, and FedEx it to you at my expense. I do this for two reasons. First, I'm a old-fashioned, honest guy, and second, I'm confident this watch WILL be found (just probably not as soon as either of us would like). BTW, one thing I did NOT do (which I will always do from now on) is record the serial number. If you have a picture of the back that shows it, or you just have a record of it, please send it to me; it might prove useful.
... I feel that the PULSAR spirits are testing me! 
