No waiting list at my local AD

[Mephist]

So I dropped by my local AD yesterday looking for a new Datejust, but she did not have the one I wanted in stock at the moment. Anyway we started talking about how crazy the demand has become with the Rolex sports models. She told me she have waiting lists that equals years for most of the sports models she manages to get. It is a tiny AD so she gets a very limited supply of sports models. Anyway then she tells me she took the whole list and through it out the window!
And the reason because she get calls from all over the country that call every AD and put themselves on the list and then just flips the watches in the grey market and she does not like it. So now she said she only have a tiny list of good local customers she knows that will get the first arrivals, after that you have to visit her store and check regularly what she got in stock. If she got what you want you get it, that way she knows the watches goes to customers in her district. So she told me to come back in September and just visit regularly once a month or call down but she would not hold a watch for you, first in gets it.

First I was a little shocked but after that I think it may actually make sense. If you visit an AD once every month or so, sooner or later you will end up buying something, so she will probably increase the sales of other Rolex's and other brands like Tudor and Omega. I also bet she will still keep a short secret list for her best local customers too so that she maintain her best customers, while still giving average Joe's the chance to win the lottery by walking in the same moment she unpacks a newly arrived BLRO.