Watch•tor•tion
/watchˈstôrSH(ə)n,ekˈstôrSH(ə)n/
noun
1. the practice many high
end watch brands use on order for their clients to obtain a highly desirable watch, especially from select
mainstream luxury Brands, through subtle or blatant requests to first buy other items such as undesirable watches or jewelry the client neither wants nor needs.
2. The various types of “watchtortion” include schemes to overbuy unwanted watches or jewelry as a prerequisite to qualify to buy what the client really came in for, discriminatory “watchtortion”: taking advantage of ultra
high net worth ethnic individuals to buy multiple other highly suggested items and prequalified “watchtortion”, telling clients they must first reach a client minimum spend in their purchase
history in order to prequalify to be kept on or moved up on a multi-year waitlist to buy a very desirable grail watch and finally
pre-owned “watchtortion”, making a watch suddenly preowned just because the seller can now make higher profits by charging the clients extreme premiums for these hot grail watches. All
four are intimidation tactics used by certain brands of certain
mono-brand boutiques or multi-brand boutiques to scare a person into caving in and agreeing to these ridiculous terms, giving up their integrity and principles in exchange for highly desirable
rare grail watches from
multiple
mainstream brands.
“they used “watchtortion” tactics to encourage me to
feel obliged to spend higher amounts to buy other
less popular watches or jewelry I have no interest in only for a mutually understood promise to eventually allow me to purchase the watch I truly desire"
