Plus, are you being purposely obtuse and combative?
You denied knowing about any grey market dealers, even though you have posted about them before, and
I'm being obtuse? Okay...
Don't know about any of them. Give me some names.
Now to this:
Had you read more carefully, you would have not needed to ask this question.
But, at least from my perspective, selling at Costco reduces brand esteem perception
Okay, but then you turn right around and say it's not just you...
Do you honestly think that because I have this perception, there is no one else that shares this perspective, outside of this forum demographic?
I'm not trying to be combative...what I'm trying to do here is gain an understanding of the logic behind your position, and I think that's the mistake I'm making. There is no logic behind it that I can see.
So I'll repeat what I said before:
"So to recap your position on this, you are going to (in your mind) think lesser of the Omega brand because a grey dealer is selling them, even though Omega is not involved in getting that dealer the watches, and actively fought a court case and lost trying to prevent it from happening, And
ONLY because they sell non-watch related products along with those watches?"
If I am misrepresenting your position, then please tell me how I'm doing that. Just saying "Huh?" as you did before tells me I'm not.
From my perspective this is sort of an unjustly "harsh" or "unfair" way of looking at Omega. Why do you look on them differently when they had nothing to do with this, and even tried to stop it is the part that to me makes zero sense. If you want to think less of Costco, the people who shop there, that makes more sense to me than thinking less of a brand that isn't involved other than it's their products. If they condoned it (by making Costco and AD), or if they stood idly by while Costco sold their watches, it might make some sense, but considering they didn't, I can't see the logic in this at all.
I don't think the average Costco shopper thinks less of brands that are offered for sale there, and it seems most in the watch community don't either. So if they are not seeing a reduction in brand perception, that leaves who exactly?
Why don't you get back to oiling watches, and I'll go back to fixing broken people, because this has certainly exhausted its interest for me.
It was not my intent to upset you. If you choose not to participate in this thread any longer, that's you prerogative.
