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From: Erik Nielsen (judge4re gmail.com)
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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 15:08:51 -0800 (PST)
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I think I'll just get the Apple Watch instead, at these prices, they can be disposable like phones and I'll still come out ahead. And yes, I have a Rolex that I've been wearing for 20 years and the back has never been off.
Jesus this pisses me off.
Erik
Sent from my iPad
The jewelers have really gone beyond the pale over the last 10 or 20 years. I remember getting a repair on my first expensive wristwatch in the early 90's. I was being billed some expensive but reasonable amount and the jeweler had (I think quite fairly) charged for his time at a fairly high rate, plus some absurdly but expectedly expensive parts. I don't begrudge him a profit and I see his costs and overheads right there in brick and mortar. Recently, after leaving it broken because I never needed the thing and I had a phone anyway, then I'd started wearing a "smartwatch" (Samsung Gear 2 ... I highly recommend!) I had a Breitling serviced because it had lost its winder mechanism. It was about an $8K watch. The repair was $2K. As a percentage, it's almost the operating cost of servicing a Ferrari at the dealership I thought ... and clearly also a total racket. Parts couldn't have be $500. Labor at some sweatshop in Texas couldn't have been $200. Total ripoff. Soured me on the whole idea of the things and I'm someone who has spent $ for a set of carbon brake rotors, so I'm not afraid to spend the stuff and $2K is not a shocking dollar amount on an indulgence, but this is just daylight robbery, it's just beyond reason to conduct a business in this way.
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