Incoming 116610LN & AD shenanigans

[jtw34240]

Yesterday I received a call from a Florida AD. I had been searching for Professional series watches and was on their call list. Well I got the call that they had a new sub with date in and they wanted to know if I wanted it. Well I told them I would take it. Well on the way I get another call from them wanting to know how soon I would be there and that there were other clients interested in the watch and that the first one who got to the store would get the watch. Well the dealer is an hour and fifteen minutes drive so of course I questioned her and asked what if someone got there before me she said they would sell it to the first person who walked in the door. I said okay let me put down a deposit until I get there, she said they would not do that. I said okay I'm trying to get there asap. Well I made it to the dealer and I was the first one there so I got the watch. The next surprise was that she told me all the stickers had to be removed from the watch. Of course I argued about that to no avail. She said it was per Rolex. I was not happy but I did manage to get them to let me keep the shipping coffin and the bezel protector but they removed all the stickers. I'm going to keep this one so the stickers didn't matter to me. I managed to talk them out of a Rolex gift a nice Rolex hat. I guess what irks me about this is that the sales process they should get the first person on the list the option to approve or decline the watch and give them an opportunity to pickup the watch. The way they went about it was wrong in my opinion. They were greedy to get rid of the watch asap. Why??? even if they put it in the case to sell that watch is going to sell right away regardless. Removing the stickers doesn't stop someone from flipping the watch.