''INCOMING from a new swedish member - newbie question as well'

[Bezel941]

Hi everyone,
I’m pretty new to the scene and have a question, for the past few years I’ve been waiting for a 126710BLRO and a couple of days ago I received the call that my watch was waiting for me and I was very excited! This is a gift from my wife so I was extremely excited and could not contain my happiness. I was bouncing around in the car on the way over to the AD and as this was my first Rolex (my only other watch is a Seiko SKX007 that I received from my brother a few years ago) this was supposed to be a truly special moment. Once we’re in the store the manager greets us and we’re told to sit down for a while and try on some watches while they prepare the watch, after a brief moment we’re told that there’s been a mix up and due to demand for this particular reference being so strong that unless we purchase two additional watches they wouldn’t be able to sell us the 126710 that I’ve been waiting two years for (!). I reluctantly agreed and asked whether if any two watches would do or if they had any specific models in mind. I was told any would do but what I found was the cheapest watches they had available were some Tag Heuer models and all in all it would be a couple of ten thousand added on top of the price of the 126710. Fortunately we’re not in the US so this wasn’t a couple of ten thousand USD but SEK which was manageable. Is this standard industry practice? I can’t help but to feel a little strange about this whole ordeal and would appreciate some insight.