Curious for the MSRP only crowd

[Sisyphus]

Originally Posted by RolexSimon

I think this myth of ADs selling to Grey's direct is not backed up by any hard evidence. Rolex are actively blocking individuals who flip to Greys as they can find out the serial numbers without too much hassle. imagine if they caught an AD doing this? It's just too serious an issue for an AD to risk loosing their AD Rolex status for. I'm happy to eat my words if anyone has any REAL evidence this is what's happening. Unscrupulous individuals who go to several ADs and wait until they get a watch then flip them immediately, knowing they will never go back to the same AD again - that's far more likely to be the real scenario.

Well, the way I imagine this working is that an AD could have customers,ie. a rep of a grey dealer, spending millions per year on product. The AD would be in a difficult financial situation to send this client away as not only does he buy the precious ss models, but also a lot of « non-desired stock ».

Under the assumption that grey dealers would actually source product from several ADs, it would be difficult for Rolex to impose any penalties on the AD itself.

It goes along the lines of your thinking, just at another scale (find it difficult to believe that the current grey offer has been sourced by individuals queuing up for years to get a Daytona).

Cheers,


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