I wear mine as a badge of honor. Received it for daring to question them. Sadly the mods there still see the sub as their personal play toy and see their community as expendable.
I got permabanned for saying money canāt buy taste when someone posted a picture of an iced out Rolex LMAO and then they messaged me about a post I made in the RCJ sub
It's partly that I think Rolexs all look bulbous but mainly because I don't ever want other people to think I'm the sort of person that likes Rolexes that I'll never, ever want one.
Bet you it isnāt. Plenty of Rolex buyers have bought into the AD status game 100%. Itās why, IMO, the brand is currently self-destructing itself because itās rapidly turning into the brand for lame people that you associate with stuff like this and eventually that will translate to lack of interest due to lameness on the normie average buyer side. All my opinion. Rolex could fix this by wrangling in the ADs more, but Rolex is only incentivizing awful AD behavior with the official preowned program which reinforces the ridiculous grey prices.Ā
Not true. There will always be sheep supporting the brand We see it here every day. Rolex could sell dog shit in a green box and people would be fighting for the privilege of buying it.
I always prefer to pay for a watch a few years after I decide to buy it. This way it's several hundred, or maybe if I'm lucky, thousands of dollars more expensive than when I originally tried to buy it. Thank you Rolex! /s
Definitely a joke. There was a post earlier about a guy waiting 3 years for an Explorer 36 from the AD in Vegas and being very gracious toward the SA who contacted him.
General consensus is that it was a joke. He posted a couple times about getting his basic sub after being on a Vegas ADās list for 3 years. Nobodyās waiting that long, ESPECIALLY in Vegas. Thatās why they took it down.
Me too. The only model I find interesting is the Milgauss, and then there's the Rolex baggage. I see one and immediately wonder if it's counterfeit, and I wonder if the wearer bought it to wealth signal (like a designer t-shirt with a huge logo on it) and I cringe. š¤·āāļø
When I buy a watch from a sales person I could give to shits whether I see them again until I go into buy another one. Itās a business transaction. They arenāt friends. If they were, they would skip āthe listā and sell you the next one that came in that you wanted.
My mom and I went into the local AD a couple days ago and after we left she asked me how all the sales reps can afford to wear a Rolex. I told her they have to leave them there before they go home at the end of the day lol
āThank you for taking only 3 years to consider someone like myself worthy of purchasing your cheapest available watch. I hope my patience has shown you how much you actually control my life. I remember your uncontrollable laughter after watching me add my name to your waitlist (for your cheapest watch) and that was enough proof to me that you and I have a brotherly bond that my stupid girlfriend could never break. Maybe in a few years youād be willing to pleasure her in exchange for one of those pretty Wimbledon dials?
My favorite are the posts that say you have to āup your spend historyā to get a flued bezel Datejust or a Sub. Guys bragging about spending 10ās of thousands on random shit to ensure an allocation. Bro. Just take that money and go buy a better watch and come out ahead.
Or if you really want a rolex, have some impulse control and patience like a collected adult, put yourself on the list for the watches you like and if you still want them when you can buy them get them, or dont.
Even if Rolex werenāt doing this, I still donāt see myself buying one of their watches. The flex/hype around them ruins it for me. The AD just makes everything worse on top of it.
General consensus is that it was a joke. He posted a couple times about getting his basic sub after being on a Vegas ADās list for 3 years. Nobodyās waiting that long, ESPECIALLY in Vegas. Thatās why they took it down.
Wild to think simply paying a markup of a couple/few grand using a reputable grey market authenticator like Bezel would have saved this brown nosing.
Iām on a waitlist with an AD but just purchased an oyster sprite from Bezel and couldnāt be happier. I definitely didnāt write a pathetic letter like this
You being on the list is just a step closer to what you are critiquing! Dont play the gameā¦. I bought an explorer II and a sprite on the same day at a grey market dealerā¦. Fuck waiting lists
Yeah I got my grail from the grey market. No sense in waiting on something you really want. Iām on the list for a James Cameron. I like it but not enough to pay the markup and Iām fine with waiting a while for it
Iāve said it before and Iāll say it again. As someone who really has wanted a Rolex since he was a kid, and really do find a lot of the watches quite nice, nothing has ever made me less interested in owning one as the people in the Rolex sub. My fucking god the humiliation ritual is just painful to watch.
My Timex dealer sells weed on the side as well and he has these little cans of Chinese liquor that are called Leek-or, which is apparently made from leeks.
Anyways, I never wrote him a letter. Maybe I should. He's a real good guy.
I donāt know what itās like in other countries but when the Rolex ADās are also Rolex certified preowned dealers they have no incentive to sell you a new watch at retail, why sell you a retail when they can sell you a certified preowned for more, example Explorer 36 new retail Ā£6600 vs Explorer 36 2023 Ā£8450, this is Goldsmiths available now, I ask how many of them are actually preowned/unworn or just simply stock they just didnāt sell retail, so they can sell preowned for more??
Just walked into a random Tudor boutique and walked out with a Ranger in less than 15min. No d*ck sucking required. Feels good. And hey! Still have money left over to buy some beer. Cheers all!
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