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Originally Posted by Oxfordian
I think it depends on how you are asked for personal information, my SA knows quite a lot about me, my wife and my family but that is because I have dropped in so many times and just talked to them, I equally know a bit about their personal situations and families simply because it came out in conversations.
Now if my SA had sat me down at the first ever meeting and asked this information I doubt if I would now own a Rolex as I would not have replied to the questions but left the store.
My belief is that the stores are desperate to know about you because they are keen to try and establish if you are a flipper, I am reasonably sure that my SA doesn’t want to sell a watch to someone who then immediately sells it on, so getting to know a bit about each client is one way of trying to ascertain whether you want the watch to own and wear or whether you just want to make a fast buck.
We all bitch and moan about our AD’s and the lack of watches available but we also bitch and moan when the AD tries to establish if we are genuine buyers to own or just out to make a bit of money.
I know one thing, I certainly wouldn’t want to be an AD, they can’t do right for doing wrong.
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I didn’t have a problem with a bio update,,,
Can see why others may feel it’s invasive but that’s how it is for the moment,,,,
SA knew a lot anyway and I after I banged on about our love of history and especially the Tudors I gave too much info ,,
we both saw the funny side of that,,,
After my initial request,we spend most of the time talking about things that were totally unrelated to watches,,,
How the SAs car is running ,,,future cars etc but not very much about watches apart from 25 (at that time ) requests he’s had for an OP 41mm Turquoise but that was about it,,
Got the feeling the SAs are tired of repeating “ sorry,no Daytona’s,GMTs or Subs currently available “ ex amount of times ,every day of the week,,,,
My empathy is with the SAs and Managers who have to enforce these policies,,,,,,