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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
Not that I like the idea of bundling, but I wasn't aware that Patek frowns upon it.
What are other methods for an AD to ensure that you aren't simply a flipper looking to get a 5711 to make a quick $35k?
I'm curious, myself, as I don't really know many other ways.
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Bundling feels like extortion to me and I'd not forget an AD trying to force sth down my throat I didn't come in to buy.
The most efficient way to prevent flipping for the AD is withholding the papers but a would-be flipper might still sell w/o papers for less gain.
This all feels like kindergarden and will hopefully go away again. I'd much rather have the old system where you got on the list and waited, at times for years, until you got the call. It mattered little how much you had spent in the mean time and it was nobody's business what happened to the watch after you got it.
Not that I encourage flipping but from my small-fish perspective a flipped watch provides at least liquidity to the (grey) market which gives people the opportunity to get what they want right now, albeit at a different price. I'd rather have another 5711 show up at a grey than an AD give a 5711 as a thank you / part of a bundle to a whale for buying a high-end piece that may be that guy's 5th Nautilus and disappear in the safe for good.