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24 February 2019, 07:53 PM | #91 |
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I went to my local AD last week and had to open the door for myself. Despite having purchased an OP39 last year ...
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24 February 2019, 08:09 PM | #93 |
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I’m still trying to figure out the relevance of the ethnicity of the SA.
You lose credibility with me when you start a sentence with “the Mexican lady” or “the Jewish guy”. |
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What an astonishing post!!
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Agreed. And I thought this was an international forum. Moderators?
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Whilst you are of course generally correct, to be fair to the OP, his story did later quote the sales assistant as saying “i don't know why English people do that, in China we buy everything new, we don't believe in 2nd hand”. Given the encounter apparently took place in middle England that particular portion of the story makes more sense with the prior reference to her ethnicity.
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Is anyone else picturing the AD manager hiding in the back office during all this?
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24 February 2019, 09:39 PM | #101 |
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I thought that from the very start of this thread ....
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try wearing them all at once and stop by
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Another short and boring story...I went in there actually to enquire about a big bang a while again (perhaps 9 months) and she basically said dont bother buying one, buy a professional Rolex to which she added O...You need to go onto a 3 year waiting list... I mean she is pretty much asking me to leave the shop right, I wonder if the owners of M and W know this sort of stuff?? |
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The stupid thing is, the M and W (my local AD) 12 miles away are absolute brilliant and helped me on 3 pieces.....LN and BLNR (waiting on Hulk) Bluewater is like a magnet for rich chavs though.....I recon they sell tons and tons of DJs.... |
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However, call me skeptical. And on balance, my opinion is that unverified anecdotes which focus on immigration status, country of origin or ethnicity are ripe for stereotype perpetuation and fake news. Substitute another country of origin or ethnicity for Chinese. Put a different alleged ethnic self characterization in the saleslady's repertoire, and imagine the possibilities. Just my opinion.
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Your skepticism is probably justified. I’m just throwing the OP, who increasingly looks like an expert troll given his continued absence, a small bone.
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Fully agree. I think your analogy is perfect. I just don’t get why someone would walk into any shop and tell them that they’re gonna buy something from somewhere else and then throw out a flipper’s Christmas list and think that they’ll be treated as anything other than a “t@#t” My feelings maybe a bit bias though, since this sounds like my AD. The AD where even the security card shakes my hand, when he sees me. The same AD where I have been offered all the hard to get watches that I want and without a single PM or expensive jewellery purchase, and no ties with relations, etc. Just a great relationship that started just before all the crazy hype (2016). Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
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This is true! That is why if you ask someone of Chinese descent what time it is, they will generally respond with, "Uh, it is somewhere between two and three pm."
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It's a rough week when you get owned by a Chinese sales lady and your a$$ handed to you by the forum in a span of three days. I'd suggest staying home in bed with the lights out, computer off and blankets pulled up over your head the rest of the weekend.
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25 February 2019, 02:56 AM | #117 |
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AD Peed me off!
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The phrase peed off is pissing me off cause it should be pissed off.
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Sorry OP, self imposed hardship is no hardship. You kinda made your own bed here.
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OP long gone. Let's move on. "Let it go. . . "
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