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 Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 06:49 pm
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 You may be familiar with the somewhat unique watch brand, Bathys Hawaii.  It is a startup watch company run out of Kauai, Hawaii and was strategically linked with the Dive Forum on WUS.  Since it's startup,  Bathys had sold their watches through an online store accessible from their website, with discounts to the forum members. 

Bathys just announced on that same dive forum that pushed it to its qualified success, that it will no longer sell its watches online.  If you want a new Bathys, you will have to find a retail store that carries it; which is currently only two (one in Hawaii and one in the UK). 

The reason for the change?  Bathys indicated that if they kept selling their watches online, they would run out of the currently planned productions before the 'holiday season'; in other words, the online business would starve the shot at retail sales. This announcement has garnered overwhelmingly negative responses in the thread; what's your opinion?

You can read more here:
http://forums.watchuseek.com/showthread.php?p=427224#post427224