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Hands90
·Took a visit to the Rolex boutique today. I was excited to see the collection in person.
Rolex Boutique Meatpacking NYC - Visit
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YY77
·One watch isn't a collection.
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marcn
·One watch nervously aware it’s going to hell; all the rest were raptured!
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Eve
·Nice 👍 😁
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Dan S
·More employees than watches?
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The Father
·Maybe the boutique wasn’t open yet. They forgot to lock up night before and you slipped in?
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JwRosenthal
·That’s a comfy looking couch there. I would go in every day with my laptop and a coffee, plop down on the couch and say I’m waiting for some watches to show up.
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Duracuir1
·I live in the middle of nowhere. But I have a Rolex and a can of (mystery) meat. So tomorrow I am opening a Rolex Boutique and starting a meatpacking district.
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blufinz52
··Hears dead people, not watch rotors.
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JwRosenthal
·So far I am seeing one more Rolex in this thread than that boutique had. Coupled with the mystery meat- we may just have a soho business!
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abrod520
·Thought I'd heard that the Meatpacking boutique kept demo versions of all their watches on hand? I was actually curious enough to make the trip (esp since the brand new Tudor boutique is next door, too)
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFThe least they could do is fill the empty slots with some Tudor.
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BenBagbag
·I'm sure discussed elsewhere, but these boutiques are independents, no? If so, do they suffer tremendously from having no inventory? Do we ever hear of them complaining? What's on their side of this discussion? Unless they are getting in loads of shipments of watches that they get to sell before it hits the display, aren't they basically selling next to no inventory?
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cvalue13
·I'm sure discussed elsewhere, but these boutiques are independents, no? If so, do they suffer tremendously from having no inventory? Do we ever hear of them complaining? What's on their side of this discussion? Unless they are getting in loads of shipments of watches that they get to sell before it hits the display, aren't they basically selling next to no inventory?
In theory, this boutique could have dozens and dozens of watches “in the back,” but that happen to already be spoken for and simply are not yet picked up or mailed.
In my experience, each salesperson has their own list of buyers; once the AD has determined how to allocate watches to their salespersons, each salesperson goes about ringing up their buyers to offer the watches they’ve been allocated.
These days, it wouldn’t surprise me if both (1) the desirable watches never hit the floor, and (2) the less desirable watches simply aren’t out out in order to create substrate for watch forum discussions 😁
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connieseamaster
·I guess they haven't gotten their shipment of dummy watches from the mothership yet.
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JwRosenthal
·I guess they haven't gotten their shipment of dummy watches from the mothership yet.
The empty show-cases is not a good look. Some may see them as so limited, they have nothing to show. But I’m
sure others like me see it like a going out of business sale. When can I buy the display cases, cash registers and furniture?
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cvalue13
·once the AD has determined how to allocate watches to their salespersons,
this stuck today, and had me thinking: we conjecture a lot about who/how AD salespersons sell to buyers, but think less about the possible weirdness between salespersons within an AD and how management allocate watches among the salespersons
… i imagine it could become pretty palace-intrigue heavy
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JwRosenthal
·this stuck today, and had me thinking: we conjecture a lot about who/how AD salespersons sell to buyers, but think less about the possible weirdness between salespersons within an AD and how management allocate watches among the salespersons
… i imagine it could become pretty palace-intrigue heavy
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cvalue13
·We saw in that lawsuit (can’t remember the retailer) that they favored one sales person who sold the most volume, and she did it in fairly unscrupulous ways that violate Rolex’s policies. But management either were complicit or turned a blind eye. They were moving the volume.
i was thinking of this context exactly. (That said, all we ever saw of that particular dispute was a plaintiff’s lawyer’s filing on behalf of a terminated employee - as a lawyer, I read those with a mountain of salt: the only thing more possibly unhinged than a disgruntled ex-employee willing to sue is their plaintiff’s lawyer. Not to say I’m assuming the complaint was BS, but instead that I don’t take the complaint itself to prove anything related to reality.)
