Horological Meandering

I lost some watches due to house burglary late last year and I managed to located some of my stolen watches in eBay. However, I am located outside of US and I want to find out if any purists can advice what is the procedure to recover the stolen watches f... 

I would do some detective work before seeking help from any legal agencies. Better still if they surface in your home country. But I will pretend to wanna buy, make some enquiries and get emails and bank account numbers. If Ebay, their pay pal could be li... 

Hi Horo thanks for the reply. However, I am located out of USA. How can I proceed with recovery then? Might need a\kind assistance of purists to help out. Thank you.

At least you can help the authorities with some identification. To be frank, I don't know how tom proceed from there. Think better await other purists with experience. By the way, do not discount the possibilities that those that are up for sale are alrea... 

As Horo suggested, pretend to be a potential buyer, and ask them lots of questions. Try to compile as much information about them as possible. Information that may be helpful should a certain authority decide to investigate your case may include: - where ... 

what i would do is buy them on ebay, pay for them using paypal and credit card, get the watches and then make a paypal complaint that you purchased watches that turned out to be stolen giving them all the details of the stolen watches. as long as it was r... 

its been known to happen before and thats the worst thing that could happen. G

Only worry I have about paying first is that what if the seller is a stolen account and the thief could have the time to transfer sleng's money to his own bank account while sleng wait for his parcel to arrive. Timing is very important. I guess at least P... 

yep, a difficult situation, but paypal and credit card should give all the protection required. G

Personally I wouldnt rely on Paypal to give you your money back, they will find any way possible not to give you your money back! (from a costly experience!) As everyone has said... I wouldnt report it to Ebay until you get as much information as you can ... 

It guarantees that you get the watches back in your hands. Pay by credit card through Paypal, and you will be protected.