Congratulations that’s a beauty !
Very nice, congratulations.
Since you're local to me, if your friendly AD happens to have a BLNR sitting around then feel free to point him my way ;)
I got Dom Jolly to call in on my behalf,I am now off the list and banned from the shop.
I used WoS on Oxford Street, we don't have a Rolex AD here now, it was Fraser Hart & they lost their Rolex and Omega AD status last Christmas.
Oxford Street is a great place though. Joe is very old school, the younger sales staff call him Mr Joe.
Definitely worth getting in touch.
I guess the question that remains is which approach DID you use - Or did it just turn up without animal sacrifice, sexual favours or cheap perfumery gifts?
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
The conversatiion went like this -
Me - I'm just ringing for an update on my Cameron?
Him-Uh?
Me - I'm down for a Cameron.
Him- Hold on, I'm going to do some magic.
SILENCE
Him - How quickly can you get here?
Apparently he'd been down & rummaged the delivery paperwork, seen there was a JC & locked the paperwork (it's all digital apparently) so no allocations could be made until I got there & he released it to me!
In return I crossed his palm with a box of Krispy Kreme. He was very chuffed and said not many people take anything for the staff.
Strikes me as mean, he's done me a favour, a box of donuts creates more goodwill than the cost by far!
A salesman sold you an expensive watch - no doubt earning a decent commission for himself - and he's done you a favour????? We clearly have gone beyond the looking glass into a very strange world indeed. No wonder ADs treat customers as victims, if they insist on behaving like victims! I'm sure psychologists have a name for this phenomenon - is it Stockholm Syndrome??
Geneva Syndrome?
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Yes, he held onto it for me until I could get there, because he knew that I wanted the piece & wouldn't flip it. He could have just called the next guy on the list.
Anyway I have dipped my toe through the looking glass into the Carrollesque world of Rolex & returned with a plum. That's a DJ 41 and a Cameron in a year. Two very nice pieces & that's me done with Rolex's marketing eccentricities.
Whenever a friend buys a new watch above 10grand, have him lend it to you for a quick visit at the ad, flash the new watch round and before leaving wink at the manager sayng: call me.
Exit saying ciaooo!
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You'd think someone on a watch forum would be clued up. The salesperson sold something to someone for 10k which is worth more than 10k therefore he did the guy a favour. Rolex SS sports is a machine where if someone lets you put 10k into the machine 11k magically comes back out. Sometimes the machine takes 8k and gives 14 back. If you're done a huge favour it takes 9k and gives back 20-23k. If someone lets you use that machine it's a favour and that's how it now works until further notice. Now you are up to speed.
In the Covid world, what dealers surely want is cash flow. They’ve had months with little income.. So they are selling as quickly as they can , to get the money in. It’s not about doing customers ‘favours’,it’s about staying solvent. Grim as it sounds, specialist shops could get shut-down again. Who knows.
In that sense, it’s quite a good time for buyers, as long as they seem ready to commit.
Sorry, just realised that I hadn't answered this point.
As I I understand it (so not 100%),at the point of sale the salesperson takes the warranty card from the box - I think it's pre-populated with the relevant watch description & serial number - and puts it into a card reader gizmo connected to the till. They then copy the sales info from the till to the chip in the card - date of purchase, store it was sold in & buyer details.
The warranty card is now updated & goes back in the box.
I think that's the gist of it.
Imagine if there were some way to disrupt and capitalise on the used market... Maybe something involving chipping and control of a database. Possibly even offering to update owner details so those selling watches could be monitored and have their fun-time privaledges revoked?
the salesman you have mentioned is probably going to have his shops rolex dealership revoked as he seems to have bypassed the standard grovelling time.