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How many Apple Watch bands do you own? OEM only.

  • One band only.

    Votes: 436 16.5%
  • 2/4

    Votes: 965 36.5%
  • 5/8

    Votes: 525 19.8%
  • 9/12

    Votes: 178 6.7%
  • 12/15

    Votes: 105 4.0%
  • 16/20

    Votes: 77 2.9%
  • more than 20

    Votes: 221 8.4%
  • more than 50

    Votes: 67 2.5%
  • more than 100

    Votes: 31 1.2%
  • more than 200

    Votes: 24 0.9%
  • more than 250

    Votes: 4 0.2%
  • more than 300

    Votes: 4 0.2%
  • more than 400

    Votes: 1 0.0%
  • more than 500

    Votes: 1 0.0%
  • more than 600

    Votes: 8 0.3%

  • Total voters
    2,646
Just before we put them away again, here’s my wife’s collection minus her Hermes. She has all the red to orange to pink range here other than PRED generations 2-4 and Hibiscus
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I think you’re a one watch guy but just curious is a 40mm at all feasible on your wrist? I’m a size 7 and straddle pretty perfectly.

Actually three Watch; SS, SBSS and a grey ceramic clearing customs on its way to me now, but all 42/44mm.

The concept of getting a Watch of the other size each has been suggested. It’s cheaper than duplicating all the bands for sure. I think I’d be a 9 in 44mm based on an article I saw on 9to5Mac comparing it with Sport Band holes. I think my wife is a 4 IIRC. The smaller Watch probably looks OK on me but I’d feel like it was tiny. 44mm on her might be slightly too big. We should swap and compare really.

I’m toying with picking up a 38mm white ceramic - I’ve never seen a ceramic Edition IRL at this point and I want to be sure I like it before I decide once and for all on chasing down a ceramic S5.
 
Just yoinked Sunshine SL 44mm NIB for $15...
Hey, stop trolling us - tell the real prices, not “after eBay Bucks, cash back and breaking my piggy bank which I didn’t even count”. We understand that you’re taking only the best deals on the market and would never go “down” to pay retail price, but not everyone here can do that.
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Umm I just found someone posted this on Twitter wyt? Supposedly they are genuine. They have all the sizes which I haven’t seen on any other clones 🤷‍♂️. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/133536568423
Really skeptical of this for several reasons. There are no actual band pictures, just Apple product shots. The seller has almost no feedback, and all the positive feedback is from a single eBay user. Lastly, these bands are sold out everywhere and product red isn’t even officially out yet. How is it that this seller happens to have genuine bands in every size at 1/5 retail price when real ones are selling for 50% above retail?

This doesn’t pass the smell test to me. You will likely receive a fake or maaaaaybe a factory reject.
 
Really skeptical of this for several reasons. There are no actual band pictures, just Apple product shots. The seller has almost no feedback, and all the positive feedback is from a single eBay user. Lastly, these bands are sold out everywhere and product red isn’t even officially out yet. How is it that this seller happens to have genuine bands in every size at 1/5 retail price when real ones are selling for 50% above retail?

This doesn’t pass the smell test to me. You will likely receive a fake or maaaaaybe a factory reject.
Yep I’m very skeptical too. Would eBay or PayPal refund if it arrives and is fake? I might order one to try out because it’s only $20 which is even good for a fake.
 
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Yep I’m very skeptical too. Would eBay or PayPal refund if it arrives and is fake? I might order one to try out because it’s only $20 which is even good for a fake.
eBay almost always sides with the buyer in a dispute so you’d probably be able to get a refund since the seller is advertising the bands as genuine. Just a question of whether you want to deal with the hassle.
 
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This doesn’t pass the smell test to me. You will likely receive a fake or maaaaaybe a factory reject.
eBay almost always sides with the buyer in a dispute so you’d probably be able to get a refund since the seller is advertising the bands as genuine. Just a question of whether you want to deal with the hassle.

Good reasons to be skeptical, but if the seller says they are new in box and provides an MPN that should be easy to dispute if they're not new in box?

Aaaand they're $14.32 USD WITH FREE SHIPPING???
 
Good reasons to be skeptical, but if the seller says they are new in box and provides an MPN that should be easy to dispute if they're not new in box?

Aaaand they're $14.32 USD WITH FREE SHIPPING???
I went on live chat with eBay and made them reassure me that if it wasn’t genuine I would definitely be able to get a refund and they said that you definitely will as it states genuine in the listing. I ordered 2, so wish me luck and hopefully I didn’t get scammed 😂.
 
I went on live chat with eBay and made them reassure me that if it wasn’t genuine I would definitely be able to get a refund and they said that you definitely will as it states genuine in the listing. I ordered 2, so wish me luck and hopefully I didn’t get scammed 😂.

Good luck, I also messaged the seller asking if they were genuine and if they'd provide an actual pic not a stock photo.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if those were scraps of the finished product. Rejected after visual inspection due to minor defects or so.
 
Hey, stop trolling us - tell the real prices, not “after eBay Bucks, cash back and breaking my piggy bank which I didn’t even count”. We understand that you’re taking only the best deals on the market and would never go “down” to pay retail price, but not everyone here can do that.
It’s free money, don’t see why it doesn’t count... but before eBay Bucks, that’s $25.

Umm I just found someone posted this on Twitter wyt? Supposedly they are genuine. They have all the sizes which I haven’t seen on any other clones 🤷‍♂️. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/133536568423
So sketchy. Would be interested to see everyone’s results though. Would buy one myself but I’ve agreed to stop buying bands until November... wish me luck.

Yep I’m very skeptical too. Would eBay or PayPal refund if it arrives and is fake? I might order one to try out because it’s only $20 which is even good for a fake.
100%. New seller, listed as Apple branded, even providing MPNs. They’ll definitely side with you. They’ll be just as suspicious as we all are.
 
Well at the risk of sounding like a flake I returned the gold stainless steel today and got the silver instead. The gold looked so great with some of my bands but it didn’t bring out the best in some and I spent too much on my bands to want to bench any of them - I’m not good at yoinking. I was also able to get a pride band that clicked in after I got paired with a patient Apple staff member who let me try the band bundled with the watch which didn’t click in. So he got another and that one worked. So finally I have a pride band!
 
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