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Looks like someone was able to snatch it for cheap too. Hopefully someone from here!
I’ve been hunting for a large. I started them all in Large and my OCD won’t allow a mix of medium and large.
Yeah I grabbed it. I regretted missing out on a cape cod on Mercari a few weeks back but lighter is better plus the 99 msrp setting the bar lower than 149...now I have all four cornflower bands, sigh.
 
That 20% off Best Buy sale is back on again. Still doesn’t include the spring bands. Also, some of the fall bands have sold out. Some are sold out on Apple’s website too so I think this may be the last chance to grab the fall colors before they are gone.
 
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Oooohh I’ve been really wanting this. I’ve got the sport band on today but the loop is what I’ve reeeallyyy wanted! And a cornflower loop.
Well my waffling could be your come-up! If I didn’t have marine green I would have just grabbed this, as I just got and fell in love with the spearmint sport band, but thought I might as well give someone on here a shot before I impulse buy it three days from now at 2am.
 
Well my waffling could be your come-up! If I didn’t have marine green I would have just grabbed this, as I just got and fell in love with the spearmint sport band, but thought I might as well give someone on here a shot before I impulse buy it three days from now at 2am.

Is it me or does it look stained up top?
 
Is it me or does it look stained up top?
It does appear to be. It’s possible that the lighting is on the right side and is overly harsh... but my Spearmint loop does not reflect the way it’s showing here. I would guess staining. Could maybe be cleaned though?

YMMV but I’ve had nothing but issues in the past on OfferUp With anything I ever had shipped. Customer Service does not work with you on items not as described. Had a few games that were counterfeits and I had to result to CC chargebacks.
 
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It does appear to be. It’s possible that the lighting is on the right side and is overly harsh... but my Spearmint loop does not reflect the way it’s showing here. I would guess staining. Could maybe be cleaned though?

YMMV but I’ve had nothing but issues in the past on OfferUp With anything I ever had shipped. Customer Service does not work with you on items not as described. Had a few games that were counterfeits and I had to result to CC chargebacks.
You know, the early loops photograph so weirdly with all their layers. My marine green and pink sand and flash looked pretty filthy in the massive photo I took of all my bands the other day For the show off thread but just in the area that‘s slightly bent so catching the light differently.

I think it’s an effect of the light bouncing off the dark base threads coming through the lighter top layer fuzzies of the first few iterations of the sport loop look. To my eye this band looks too flat to actually have been used beyond the promised “few times” and the coloration too widespread to be anything but a funky refraction. That said I don’t have first hand knowledge with the spearmint loop, though it does seem to have a very dark base layer. That orange-y stain that shows up on the right in the first photo kinda appears all throughout in the second pic, right? So that would be a gnarly defect to pass off...

For this price, I would just kinda risk it, personally...I will say I’ve only been on OfferUp for a few days and it does seem like a Wild West. This random pic off the web seems to kinda have the same glint?
 

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You know, the early loops photograph so weirdly with all their layers. My marine green and pink sand and flash looked pretty filthy in the massive photo I took of all my bands the other day For the show off thread but just in the area that‘s slightly bent so catching the light differently.

I think it’s an effect of the light bouncing off the dark base threads coming through the lighter top layer fuzzies of the first few iterations of the sport loop look. To my eye this band looks too flat to actually have been used beyond the promised “few times” and the coloration too widespread to be anything but a funky refraction. That said I don’t have first hand knowledge with the spearmint loop, though it does seem to have a very dark base layer. That orange-y stain that shows up on the right in the first photo kinda appears all throughout in the second pic, right? So that would be a gnarly defect to pass off...

For this price, I would just kinda risk it, personally...I will say I’ve only been on OfferUp for a few days and it does seem like a Wild West. This random pic off the web seems to kinda have the same glint?

That is true I do see the same tint in that photo compared to the one posted offerup. Well best of luck to anyone on here who decides to pick it up.
 
I’d say it’s the lighting. The lug portion looks like my khaki one
So I finally pulled the trigger ($12+$5 shipping) and it is indeed Alaskan Blue...can’t complain, for under $20 brand new I kinda want all the tri-tones. Def got my heart set on khaki now if it pops up with my eBay search for cargo khaki.
 
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Can we cobble together a list of all the marketplace sites? I was sure I had found them all and someone just mentioned Depop on the big thread and now I have a $30 obsidian coming.

eBay, Mercari, OfferUp (ghost town ish), Depop, Poshmark

luxury ones I found for Hermes that seem very thin but at some point had bands:

therealreal, tradesy, fashionphile
 
Can we cobble together a list of all the marketplace sites? I was sure I had found them all and someone just mentioned Depop on the big thread and now I have a $30 obsidian coming.

eBay, Mercari, OfferUp (ghost town ish), Depop, Poshmark

luxury ones I found for Hermes that seem very thin but at some point had bands:

therealreal, tradesy, fashionphile
I can’t figure out how to find anything on Depop. Just junk third party stuff. Enlighten me?
 
I can’t figure out how to find anything on Depop. Just junk third party stuff. Enlighten me?
Yeah it was a long scroll with not a lot to choose from...try “Apple band”

Separately:

storm gray loop 40mm $26 VERY underrated band, looks amazing on gold stainless
https://merc.li/S2x4Rf2Nb

green sport band 38mm $32 ... if anyone is fed up waiting for primary green, I have this one and it’s very love/hate day-to-day haha

this guy (forum member?) is selling off all his bands, cobalt 42mm ($40) is most interesting one
 
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Yeah it was a long scroll with not a lot to choose from...try “Apple band”

Separately:

storm gray loop 40mm $26 VERY underrated band, looks amazing on gold stainless
https://merc.li/S2x4Rf2Nb

green sport band 38mm $32 ... if anyone is fed up waiting for primary green, I have this one and it’s very love/hate day-to-day haha

this guy (forum member?) is selling off all his bands, cobalt 42mm ($40) is most interesting one
I saw that cobalt earlier. I wanted to jump on it but I’m not sure if I want a dark blue. I have a midnight blue and that’s dark.. there’s so many blues I don’t even know what to do!
 
That link comes up broken for me, even though it looks right. This one works:
 
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