Oris Artix GT Date Automatic Watch

Professional photography work was only a sideline for a while that generated some extra money for discretionary spending. Never has been a primary occupation. I suggest you first read my response to the dude who mentioned he worked at a TV home shopping company. Won't repeat it here. Then I suggest you do a little research about Massdrop to understand their business model and how they facilitate the sale of various products. There's an entry in Wikipedia about the company, and then Google for "Massdrop company profile" which will find sources of information about their size (# employees and annual revenue). Hoovers.com (D&B Hoovers) is one of the better sources along with Buzzfile.com for that information. Most of the rest that Google finds are about the funding they've received from investors, and who they (the investors) are, along with the company's officers, not the number of employees or annual revenue. I knew about how Massdrop worked - their business model - and had a good idea of their size before I ever responded to anyone here. If I'm contemplating buying something from an online source, I do my homework about who they are first. Once you understand their business model - basically a sophisticated and organized "group buy" facilitator for products like this (a very over-simplified characterization) - you'll understand that expecting them to do product photography is out of the question under the business model used for selling products like this Oris. From the product for this specific watch: "After the drop ends, payment will be collected and the group’s order will be submitted to the vendor up front, making all sales final. Check the discussion page for updates on your order." I conclude from this that Massdrop puts in the order for these when the drop closes, if it meets the minimum buy quantity. Massdrop submits them to the "vendor" (presumably the Oris USA distributor) and takes care of herding them to the buyers. They don't have them sitting in a warehouse or a vault with samples available for photography, samples that cannot be sold as "brand new" once they've removed all the protective plastic, hang tags, and other protective wrappings. Anyone receiving that one would be screeching about fraud, claiming they were shipped a "used" watch. If you've bought a new watch on line before, you know what it should look like when you get it, if it is truly brand new. You also know it's impossible to photograph one with all the plastic stuff covering the crystal, back, bracelet and clasp, and sometimes blue stuff painted onto the end of the crown. What do they do with that one? Eat it as the cost of doing business? I think not. They use catalog photos provided by Oris. If you want to gripe and complain about the photos, it should be directed at Oris, not Massdrop.

Congratulations on your use of passive-aggressive behavior to call me a prick a second time, and you have the temerity, after making obscenity laden posts fully intended to incite anger, to demand civil discourse. I suggest you go to a mirror, look directly into it and lecture the person you see there about civil discourse.

Comparing Massdrop to a jewelry e-tailer/ tv-home-shopping company is like comparing Mars to Jupiter. There are three main tv-home-shopping companies, in order of size from largest to smallest: QVC, HSN and Evine. The smallest, Evine, has over 20 times the number of employees as Massdrop. HSN has roughly 100 times as many and QVC about 200 times as many. The size difference in employees is entire orders of magnitude. The difference in annual revenue is even more staggering by more orders of magnitude. Furthermore, Evine, HSN and QVC are operating 24/7 cable channel feeds on TV broadcast sets. I would expect the likes of Evine, HSN and QVC to have more than sufficient studio capability and the expertise. The nature of their business starting with their fundamental business model is entirely different. Having any expectation that Massdrop can or would do something because Evine, HSN and QVC do it is beyond anything reasonable.