GLau[Patek Moderator]
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First, good choice in going after the 5226 and 5119 ! My friends and I have also faced similar questions but the one about
Apr 19, 2024,17:54 PM
cash only is a strange request. Who wants to walk around with tens of thousands of dollars ? On payments, I experienced being requested to use a different credit card in order to lower the transaction fee for my next purchase. I got the hint and was happy to obliged for the next watch.
In Hong Kong for the past 5+ years, every time I visited a new AD, salesperson asked for my business card when I requested a watch because they wanted to ensure that I was local. Even the AD that knew me from my prior purchases before the Patek craze asked me to supply a business card for their records.
I always wear a Patek when I go to an existing or new AD. Once I visited a Patek store for the first time while donning a shirt with very long sleeves, I noticed the salesperson was following me around trying overtly to see what watch I had on.
As soon as I realized, I showed him my Patek and the conversation became more personal. During the conversation (and similar others with different ADs), the topic of my watch collection always came up. Reflecting on this experience afterwards, I was still annoyed but also understood that the salesperson only wanted to spend time on what he perceived to be a genuine lead because of his commission system.
I was happy to read that the ADs did not ask you to bundle.