Would you inform your Rolex AD you're no longer interested?

[writemem]

Hi everyone,

Long time lurker but thought I'd join and start a thread on a particular situation I find myself in.

Having wanted to purchase a luxury watch for many years and finally having got the money together, I found myself in the predicament we've currently been in for the last few years. Long story short I always wanted a Milgauss black dial GV and then getting more into the watch hobby I picked up an Omega Railmaster and Speedmaster 3861 Sapphire Sandwich. The Railmaster was purchased online and after an awful "interview" for a register of interest at an independent dealer near me (I was blatently invited in as training excercise for a receptionist looking to become an SA) for a Milgauss I decided to give it up and perhaps look at a grey. I then got the itch for the Speedy and went to my local WoS, love the watch and it's currently my daily and a month after purchasing I emailed expressing an interest in the Rolex Milgauss to the store. I go a polite email back stating as I'm an existing customer there is no need for me to come in to the store and then in January this year I panicked and bought grey believing the hype to he Milgauss would be discontinued (thanks YouTube!!) - £2.6k over current MSRP

Now the Milgauss I still love, but it's not a daily it's more a special occasion watch for me, but I want a Rolex daily and decided on the not so popular (joke) 12670BLRO on jubilee! I seem to have a science / engineering theme with my watches as thats my background and as the NASA guys in the 60s had the watch as their daily when not in space I feel it fits the collection, my day to day attire, and has the date function, so would very much be my daily.

Now the question....would you tell the AD you're no longer interested in the Milgauss, that you bought it prior to watches and wonders and are now interested in something totally different as you'd like 2 Rolex to compliment the two Omega and you've chosen probably the most desirable behind the Daytona! They probably will get flipper red flags or maybe they don't remember at all, certainly only with a 6k spend I doubt I'm remembered.

As it stands I could by the watch at MSRP now, but grey I'd be looking at maybe next year and I'd really only want to pay double for it, its current price I feel is too high.

For context the dates of purchases are

Railmaster : July 2021
Speedy November 2021
Milgauss : January 2022

[joli160]

Of course you have to inform the AD.

Ordering something and than not buying it when it arrives is very poor ethics which happens a lot.

I come from a retail background and we always blocked customers who did this for future purchases.

[Ichiran]

Although my AD no longer has waiting lists, I still inform them if I want to back out from a watch I expressed an interest in.

[kwingy]

Yes tell the AD you don't want the Milgauss - all it takes is an email or phone call.

[travisb]

I'd tell the AD you're no longer interested in the Milgauss. Express your interest in the BLRO and see what they say.

[David001]

I've done both, although I guess it depends on your AD.

I happened by the AD soon after the 41mm releases and for some inexplicable reason I'd been put on 'the list' for the 126610LV, I promptly told them to take me off it, I don't like coloured bezels, they all thought I was nuts for asking to have my name taken off a waiting list.

Another example is getting a phone call for the 126618LN telling to come and pick it up, I'd previously expressed an interest, but I'd decided to pass on it and informed them so. It had no effect and I've still been allocated watches since then.

As I said though, it's not a Rolex thing, it's an AD thing.

As an aside, I did the same with Patek, put my name down for a watch, then after waiting what I felt was too long I bought it somewhere else. Sometime later I was in my usual Patek AD and they noticed it and asked about it, so I told them politely but honestly that if they can't give me what I want then I'll go somewhere else. I wondered if I'd burned a bridge but it had the opposite effect and I started to get what I was asking for more often.

Again, I think it's all about the guys in the AD and how you come across to them.

[mountainjogger]

Originally Posted by travisb

I'd tell the AD you're no longer interested in the Milgauss. Express your interest in the BLRO and see what they say.

This.

[EEpro]

Just call and move your interest to BLRO.

Worst case if they call tell them you had a chance to try one on and it wasn't what you expected. You'd prefer the Pepsi.

[thenewrick]

There are going to be a lot of people who are currently on lists who will reject the offer when called. This will only help build relationships with good consistent buyers. After checking on 5 people for a reference they will remember who said they’d buy and actually bought.

Imagine someone coming to you and asking to be put on a waitlist for a watch. They might check in from time to time. Buy donuts for the store. Then either don’t pick up or reject watch offers. All that effort and tolerance just to be wishy washed. SA’s don’t wanna deal with that nonsense. They appreciate reliable good customers who do what they say and don’t muck about or waste their time.

So no I don’t think people will remove themselves from waitlists. But I think a lot of people will be ghosting ADs and rejecting watches.

I’ve taken my name off waiting lists before and rejected several Rolex that I wasn’t interested in including Cermit, Daytona, Pepsi, Rootbeer. So when I say I want a reference, it means if you call me it’ll be purchased in 5 minutes or less.

For your situation, I’d tell the truth. ADs are smarter than you. This is all they do. You’re not going to secretly trick them into getting you a watch. They can read you like a book. Go in person, explain what you explained here more or less. Tell them which reference you really want. Be willing to wait a long time for a BLRO.

[Harry-57]

I would tell my AD. I did on one occasion when I changed my mind about a TT Sky Dweller and bought an SS from a grey seller. For me it's nothing more than common curtesy. They offered me a hot watch five months later. So no harm dome.

[77T]

Originally Posted by writemem

Now the question....would you tell the AD you're no longer interested in the Milgauss, that you bought it prior to watches and wonders and are now interested in something totally different as you'd like 2 Rolex to compliment the two Omega and you've chosen probably the most desirable behind the Daytona! They probably will get flipper red flags or maybe they don't remember at all, certainly only with a 6k spend I doubt I'm remembered.

Railmaster : July 2021
Speedy November 2021
Milgauss : January 2022

If you plan on working with the WoS AD, I’d just drop in wearing the Milgauss.

To avoid them thinking you’re a flipper, take your Omegas to the store and submit all 3 for insurance appraisals. If they state that they don’t do appraisals, that’s OK. If they do the appraisals, all the better.

Such a flanking move tacitly demonstrates that you collect, rather than flip.

While there, outline the model(s) on your radar for the next purchase.


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[Wee-Willie]

Yes, I did.

In early January I was looking at DJ & DD & they took my info.
I ended up getting my DD elsewhere. I was in a few weeks later to get my wife a Valentines gift & showed her my new DD & asked that she remove my requests.
She was very nice, congratulated me on my DD.

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by travisb

I'd tell the AD you're no longer interested in the Milgauss. Express your interest in the BLRO and see what they say.

Exactly this

[Wahlberg]

Originally Posted by joli160

Ordering something and than not buying it when it arrives is very poor ethics which happens a lot.

Nothing is ordered/assigned/... for or to him. There is no order whatsoever.

[Carguy87]

I’m sure the “right” answer varies AD to AD but I had been waiting for a James Cameron for several months and I managed to buy one in Vegas on vacation. I had even visited my local AD the day before I flew out to check in and they had nothing they wanted to offer me, so when I got back I went and told my SA what happened and that I couldn’t pass it up, but that it’s my first Rolex not my last and I just politely asked to move my interest to the next two pieces on my list. He was super understanding and thanked me for letting him know because otherwise he would have been jockeying to get my piece in the allocation split up (at this store the manager splits up watches between SA’s to sell to whoever the SA wants to call, but if the SA’s person of choice backs out it goes in a round Robin) and he’d have lost the sale to another SA with a different client.

[AJMarcus]

Originally Posted by Wahlberg

Nothing is ordered/assigned/... for or to him. There is no order whatsoever.

I agree. Being put on a ‘list’ is not an order. I think folks are overthinking this somewhat.

[RUSH2689]

Yea they are so good at keeping me informed of their supply and availability I'll be sure to keep them apprised of my interests as they change

[amphr1]

I wouldn't go out of my way to tell your AD, but on your next visit, while you chat, talk to your SA about why you have since changed your mind. I still have the WG blue bezel sub on my waitlist, but my SA knows I probably won't buy it, because well 1/ we talked about the stock market and how we invest before the crash happened, and 2/ we talked about how self conscious I am about wearing my TT Explorer and how that would just be magnified with a $40k piece on my wrist. Nothing is final, and who knows when he calls me maybe I'll change my mind after I see it in person, but my SA and I are on the same page.

[GONZO2LR]

Originally Posted by AJMarcus

I agree. Being put on a ‘list’ is not an order. I think folks are overthinking this somewhat.

ohhh..yeah...over thinking it big time....they dont even have the watch and they getting all worked up on a would of, could of...

[Chewbacca]

Never. It’s the only way I got to 82 Rolexeses.

[prnceofpersia23]

Originally Posted by writemem

or maybe they don't remember at all

This is the most likely scenario. I wouldn't bother telling them about the Milly. Ask for the BLRO and leave it at that.

[OrangeSport]

Nice to tell them, but

i Do you really think they are trying to get you one?
ii If they get one they’ll soon sell it to someone else

So, no biggy

[amh]

No - because I'll never get the call/text anyway. I'm nothing to them (5 years of waiting == proof)