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Originally Posted by MadSpaniard
Seems to me there is one, and exactly one, scenario in which a person pays msrp at AD for a nautilus: they walk in to an AD, they leave payment for the exact msrp as stated on the Patek website, and they walk out with a brand new nauti on their wrist. Nothing more, just exactly that.
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And that is what the majority of forum members are doing, they don't buy anything but what they want and it's from an AD at no more than MSRP.
Moreover, you will find that most members don't see a Nautilus as the pinnacle of Patek and the thought of being asked to buy other goods to get one is ludicrous and an affront to all Patek Philippe brand values.
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Originally Posted by V25V
Agree. But most of those who take the latter approach will never openly admit they see it this way. Again, which makes this behavior interesting to me. It's as if they would feel inferior to admit they bought a bunch of crap to get what they wanted at msrp. Which again, if I had that sort of money to be able to do and not care, I would have no problem saying.... I don't give a F and I can. Over in the Rolex section people have no beef being open about buying from grays and paying premiums, why do those here look at it differently?
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Have you never thought that perhaps the reason forum members don't admit to doing this is because it isn't very common - the PP section is full of many passionate watch collectors with the ability to forge strong relationships and the thought of buying something we don't want is simply not on the radar.
When it does happen and is brought to the forum's attention all hell breaks lose with strong passion being shown - unfortunately this then leads to members such as Karl getting banned.
