pride gets expensive...this is a perfect case for the ODF (own damn fault) defense.
This is like buying a Ferrari.
Before they let you buy a new one, you have to buy used ones from that dealer.
“Would-be buyers of certain Patek Philippe watches must jump through hoops to acquire one, according to auction house Christie’s. “Some Patek Philippe watches are so sought-after that buyers must submit to an application process to demonstrate that they are sufficiently high-calibre collectors,” Christie’s said in an explainer about the brand. Watch-strap maker Horus, in a 2022 guide to buying luxury watches such as Patek Philippe’s, said building a spending history with a watch shop can be crucial to obtaining certain scarce timepieces. “The more you have spent, the better and more desirable the watches offered to you will be,” according to the company.”
Never heard that before.
Second job I ever got in the world was a Messenger position for a Boston law firm. I was 17. It was the 70s and I delivered things and I picked up things. I got to know the streets of downtown Boston quite well. But then one day this female lawyer told be to “Go to Shreve” and pickup a package with her name on it.
I said, “Shreve? Where is that? What is that?”
The contempt oozed out of her.
I found a TAG Hauer Carerra women’s watch at a thrift store in Tahoe. I paid $3 for it and gave it to my Polish girlfriend.
Aside from my old calculator watch that was the only other watch I ever bought. Seems silly to me to spend $200,000 on a watch that one could easily lose.
I hope he had that in writing....
Boy, that’s tough.
There are just certain things you can’t have without a history.
If Schreve didn’t tell it’s employees they were losing their status a PP seller, I don’t know if there is a case but, there should be.
Reminds me of Sondra Locke alleging that Clint Eastwood "made" her get an abortion, as if he tied her up and dragged her into the clinic. Or that the British royal family and/or the clergy "made" Margaret cut if off with Townsend.
Choices were made. Own it.
Shreve did not tell its sales associates, or Rezaei, that it would stop being a dealer for the Swiss brand, the lawsuit alleged. Instead, Shreve strung him along “to continue to reap additional sales revenue” and Rezaei was “deprived of the watch that he was promised,” the lawsuit claimed.This is really surprising..."Shreve in 1887 became the second U.S. jeweler in the U.S. to represent Patek Philippe
Think about how raw and untamed SF was in those years. That was the tail end of the citizen-led Vigilance Committees that fought the Sydney Ducks, the Regulators, and other criminal enterprises. SF saw a murder a day in that era when its population was a lot smaller. The vigilante drove the criminals from the city and, or a time, the Barbary Coast ceased to be the hub of illegal activity and danger in San Francisco.
There was huge money in SF at the time from the building of the transcontinental railroad and banking. Still, it's surprising that Patek Philippe chose SF as its second city to carry their watches.
Here's an 1887 Patek Philippe watch...
should have googled it and bought it elsewhere.
Idiot.
Pffft, sounds like you don’t need my business. Buh bye now.
Doesn't pass the smell test at all, for me.
Yup - for high end watches, the racket jewelry stores run is to make you buy other stuff. Lots of other stuff. Then you have a hope in hell of being offered the watch you want at the retail price...someday. The cheaper alternative, if you just have to have that AP or PP or even a lowly steel Rolex, is to just go gray-market and pay the markup.
Eh. Jewelry is largely a scam. Aside from a few high end names most jewelry depreciates ruinously after purchase. Stupid investment in my experience. Your $1000 Zales bracelet won’t sell for anything near that.
Haven’t worn a watch in 40+ years. No jewelry at all actually.
He should have gone to NYC to the diamond district at 47th St. and he would have found one. Lot cheaper than what he did.
I would have told that jewelry store and the Ferrari dealership to eff off.
I had read that this is the game (show us that you are a real enthusiast of our product; we have people standing in line to buy oru elite offerings) that is played at Ferrari dealerships. Sounded koo-koo.
But then an acquaintance who had the money to buy Ferraris (and McLarens) told me a story about his purchase of his first ... Ferrari!! Seems that the fact that he owned a McLaren P1 (which he had purchased new from authorized McLaren dealership) allowed him to go to head of the line.
I imagine a similar form of scam is also involved in the sale of “art”.