A major advantage of this group is involvement of professional dealer in helping members.

I wonder if there could ever be a paid service for a professional dealer such as Fed to review members' watches to help facilitate trade so as to avoid the risk of doing so on our own and also to avoid the detrimental 30-50% haircut we have to endure to trade our watch safely to a dealer. It would probably involve sending the watches in the proposed trade to the dealer for evaluation of the pieces. The dealer could recommend a cash difference for the trade after verifying their providence. If it turns out the trade is no good for one of the members after hearing the recommended trade value, then at least both would end up with an appraisal.

Maybe stupid or far fetched or too much work but I thought it could be an interesting and unique option for the community.