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Claybertrand

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SinSir said:
I couldn't agree more with everything said. I talk offers all the time in messages on non offer items. When an item is high, I don't mind shooting a low ball. Most of my offers besides item condition are my budget, reflection of asking price, comparable sale prices, and the seller or terms.

I've learned my lesson the hard way as a seller and watchers. I'm into watches too. I had one for sale that had tons of watchers pretty quick. I had an offer made, rejected it, and got into negotions. I didn't sell it for his reasonable offer becuase of all the watchers and honestly didn't really want to sell it but should. Many auctions, offers, and watchers later I sold it for not much more than the first offer. In the end the buyer was more than happy, but I would have preferred not to deal with all the watchers in between.

I watch a lot of auctions for various reasons and only a few of them I actually buy. The ones I want to buy rotate order of importance of what I'm willing to buy today or hold off until another day.

Hell there's a jacket still listed 6 months later from a seller that we were at a deal but he wouldn't budge on his 3x the shipping cost. Guess what, I'm still a watcher. Lol
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^^^^^^THIS!!!!^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Preach Brother!!!! ;)
 
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50's Californian CHP in near mint condition!!! size 40 unfortunately :-(

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Carlos840

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Monitor said:
That's Chinese to me. I don't understand numbers. Only how many of something there is but that's as far as my understating of numbers goes.
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Let's say you have a 40" chest exactly.
You can't wear a jacket that is 40" circumference as that would literally be skin tight.
Chest ease is added to account for that, usually between 4 and 6" on top of the true chest measurement.
So a size 40 jacket should be between 44" circumference (4" of added ease) and 46" circumference (6" of added ease). To go from circumference to "pit to pit" you just divide by two. (which is the equivalent of flattening a cylinder before measuring it side to side, not to be confused with the diameter)
So a size 40 should be between 22" and 23" pit to pit.

What i did in the previous post was basically the opposite, you know it's a size 34, you know it has 20" pit to pit.
20 pit to pit is 40" circumference, jacket circumference - chest size=chest ease (40-34=6), so that means it gives you 6" of chest ease if you are a real 34, that's on the larger size but still within acceptable range for a size 34.

Compare that to an Aero HWM for example where you usually see 24-25" pit to pit for a size 40.
That means compared to tag size a HWM usually has 8 to 10" of chest ease, which is the reason people say "40 fits like a 44" (which i don't think is true since they are always too short to be a real 44, they are just a very boxy 40).

Does that make sens?

( if you check out the Vanson website, they mention the chest ease in the sizing guide, they call 5" to 7" ease "normal fit" and 4" ease "continental fit")
 
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Carlos840 said:
Let's say you have a 40" chest exactly.
You can't wear a jacket that is 40" circumference as that would literally be skin tight.
Chest ease is added to account for that, usually between 4 and 6" on top of the true chest measurement.
So a size 40 jacket should be between 44" circumference (4" of added ease) and 46" circumference (6" of added ease). To go from circumference to "pit to pit" you just divide by two. (which is the equivalent of flattening a cylinder before measuring it side to side, not to be confused with the diameter)
So a size 40 should be between 22" and 23" pit to pit.

What i did in the previous post was basically the opposite, you know it's a size 34, you know it has 20" pit to pit.
20 pit to pit is 40" circumference, jacket circumference - chest size=chest ease (40-34=6), so that means it gives you 6" of chest ease if you are a real 34, that's on the larger size but still within acceptable range for a size 34.

Compare that to an Aero HWM for example where you usually see 24-25" pit to pit for a size 40.
That means compared to tag size a HWM usually has 8 to 10" of chest ease, which is the reason people say "40 fits like a 44" (which i don't think is true since they are always too short to be a real 44, they are just a very boxy 40).

Does that make sens?

( if you check out the Vanson website, they mention the chest ease in the sizing guide, they call 5" to 7" ease "normal fit" and 4" ease "continental fit")
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