Link

TAG Heuer Men's Link Series Watch #WJ1111.BA0570
$1,900.00
PEOPLE WILL PAY ANYTHING FOR A STATUS SYMBOL.
IT IS BIG, HEAVY, CLUNKY and UNCOMFORTABLE.

DON'T KILL THE MESSANGER. I AM JUST TELLING YOU WHAT IT IS LIKE SO YOU CAN MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION. PEOPLE WHO ALREADY BOUGHT THIS WATCH ARE MAD AT ME FOR TELLING IT LIKE IT IS.

I got this watch as an anniversary gift from my company. I don't like it all.

You might argue about the appearance. I don't like it, but others do. I was never into the skin diver's watch with the rotating ring. They were all the rage when I was a kid and were on every $10 watch.

How many people who by this watch are really going skin diving? Who is actually going to use that ring around the watch? It is like all the people who bought SUV's and never took them off the road. It has gotten to the point where they don't even build the SUV's rugged enough to go off road. I have a Lexus 330 4 wheel drive and I hit some concrete and bent the rim so bad the tire went flat. How can you take a car like that off road?

It is big, heavy and clunky. It is the first watch that I bought that is uncomfortable to wear. I have worn it for a day, and my wrist is sore. The clasp cuts into my skin. The watch links hurt my wrist bone. The gaps between the links pull my arm hair. I may get used to wearing it eventually, especially after it pulls out all the hair around my wrist.

I have a Garmin GPS watch that is bigger, but is a lot more comfortable to wear. The Garmin watch is cool and useful. I can track where I am and how far I run. I use it to measure how far I run while refereeing soccer games. You can also download the data and see how well you covered the field.

The watch comes in a very nice box and is wrapped around a velvet bad. It has this nice owners manual that comes in a leather pouch. It looks like something that would come with a luxury car. The book is about 90 pages, but there are only 5 in English. The rest of the book are the instruction printed in about 20 other languages.

The watch lists for $2000 dollars, but can be purchased much less (such as here on Amazon). But, if you go to a store like Macy's, it will be $2000.

Since I didn't get the watch at jewelry store, I had to pay someone ($37) to fit the band to my wrist. You probably have to do the same if you get if from Amazon. I am pretty mechanically inclined, but I couldn't figure out how to remove the links. I took it to Macy's watch repair, and it took them a while to figure out how to do it.

When the battery dies (in 1 to 5 years, depending on who you believe), it will cost you about $200 to get TAG to replace. But, you can probably go somewhere else for much cheaper.

I have the watch and I will probably keep wearing it. I don't like it, but I am just as vain as the next guy, and I want to show off my $2000 watch. But, looking back, I probably should have tried to sell it on eBay and used the money for something worth while (like 100 GPS watches).

Link
$7.99
Link is a novel that reads very much like a movie, which is no surprise because Becker is a screenwriter. It is not the best adventure novel I have ever read, but it was thought provoking and a little different. If you are a fan of James Rollins type adventure and science fiction I highly recommend it for an escape book that is fun.

The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
$25.99
I bought this on my kindle so I wasn't able to glance through the actual book, only the 'preview' kindle offers...which made it sound like it was a novel-style story about an 'ape/man' missing link being, which would presumably be based on scientific evidence with some creative storytelling to move it along...the actual book itself though was instead a scientific documentation about a skeleton that was found. A heavy read, but interesting.

Legend of Zelda: Link 9 Inch Plush
$18.99
There's not much to say about this Plush doll except, I couldn't believe how small it was for the price I had to pay for it! It's barely worth maybe $4.99 at the most. Yet I payed over $20.00 for it. Why is everything I buy on the internet seem to be a ripoff? For example, being forced to pay $3.99 shipping for every game or game-related thing I order from Amazon. It totally sucks!

As far as this doll goes, it's cool but just not worth the high price.
A word of advice: Don't buy this for a kid to play with because it's too expensive and a kid would probably rip the sword & shield off of it in one day! Buy this only for a collector's piece and keep it stored or out of reach of kids who might be tempted to play with it. Unless you don't mind spending tons of money on something just to see your kids tear it up.