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#31 |
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Life’s too short. You have money, go enjoy it on something else and don’t play this made up game
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The ROO was bought grey becuase I couldn’t get an allocation. Taupe dial. |
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![]() Anyway, while you might be thinking that you are playing chess and making great moves by talking to SA’s from across the road, the real game is to make one relationship with your home boutique. Anyone collecting APs has the money to travel and buy watches for significantly less money due to the strong USD and VAT refund. So your local SA won’t care too much about you spending your money at Geneva, where you likely saved some money and didn’t help out your local boutique’s P&L anyway. So they have very little reason to prioritize your business over others with longer purchase history. UK obviously doesn’t haven VAT refund anymore, but they still primarily focus on local clients like most boutiques do In conclusion, there are valid reasons to get pissed at AP, but most here would argue that you haven’t actually been playing the right “game” yet to warrant getting pissed. Now that’s not to say you aren’t entitled to feel however you want to feel, but there are many collectors here who have bought way more at their local boutiques (with no VAT refunds) who still haven’t gotten the pieces they wanted yet due to the demand in their local markets |
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Visiting multiple boutiques isn't going to get you anywhere. Stick with one boutique and SA. Work that relationship. You've already been tied to an SA and boutique as far as AP is concerned. If the location is too far, you need to request a transfer of boutiques with them. Buying under retail pieces via grey dealers in the meantime isn't going to help your cause either. Sure, a hot or discontinued piece you bought at a premium can show commitment and passion for the brand. Under retail pieces bought grey and asking for premium pieces at retail does not fit the type of clients they want to build relationships with. Just my 2 cents.
Wish you the best of luck in your quest for your RO. I just think you might need to change up your strategy a bit to get you where you want to go. ![]()
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Just buy grey I’m even tempted to get the code at this price - not even worth the strategic effort you putting into this!!!
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I don’t think that contacting various locations will be of benefit to you, try again with Miami. Book in to see them, be totally honest about your situation and how you feel in limbo and build a relationship with them. It might be slow to start, but it will develop. Be polite and friendly and take it from there. |
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Wondering why in these tales of woe it always takes a page or two for the salient details to emerge
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Probably 20% premium or so https://www.europeanwatch.com/watch/...l-4-53370.html Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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So while this may not exactly apply to AP and the OP's situation, having a connection at more than one boutique maybe helpful in some situations. It really seems like a lot of this is SA-dependent. |
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Plenty of 15500 in the mid 30s as well but yes I was comparing it to the 15510 retail not really fair to compare it to the 15400 retail pricing but maybe I’m wrong Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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So it seems that consensus is to not switch SAs. I’ve grown frustrated with mine and a few weeks back, called an SA from another boutique that a friend had some luck with. I never received a return call. Could this get back to my original SA or am I just being paranoid? Sad that I am thinking this way, when all I want to do is spend my hard earned money on a watch.
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So AP won’t sell watches to some here and rather than be a men/ women with developed sense of self worth, who just moves on and buys something more horologically or otherwise interesting, we get 2 pages of self pity and endless rationalizations….such is the state of of horological world these days!
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Sorry to hear. Hopefully you wanted the code and didn't buy it for the chance to buy a RO.
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Premium for RO is getting smaller and smaller and Code 11.59 are trading 40-50% off. Buy a code just to have the chance of buying a RO makes very little sense these days.
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Actually great point. You can get the new Code 11.59 qt at ~27k, which is a discount of around $13k from retail. And even on TRF a mint 15510 runs you in the high 30s. So you'd literally be better off buying both grey, having them the next day at the same final price and moving on vs begging / "showing your interest" and buying a full price code for the faint hope of getting your RO |
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Had the same experience. Bahhh
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It is like Rolex…if all you want is a sub or Daytona and then you are done, don’t go to the AD get and forced to purchase multiple pieces of jewelry before you can get a watch. |
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Internally, apparently they would just request a transfer from the original boutique you were dealing with. |
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#57 | |
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Man, why can't I just like my Code and why must everything be about resale value. At least with AP, they have never hinted me to buy anything I didn't like and every watch I have ever bought is a nice watch that I truly enjoy. |
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Thank you! That’s really helpful!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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That is not true at all. Many true collectors do not buy into buying something else to get what they want, myself included. I am not saying I am going away but I am certainly not going to buy a Code I do not want in order to get another reference I do. It is in fact turning a lot of people off and I do believe eventually they will have to make an adjustment here.
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