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.
/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"
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Get the Drew Watching mug.Chinchilla watching is a very uncommon hobby. Most chinchilla watchers are found in Ohio. Chinchilla watching became popular because of the chinchilla's unique way of living and moving. The officail religion of chinchilla watching is Bataspidamanahbenda. This religion is also very uncommon but is growing rapidly throughout Ohio.
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Stone Watch features a unique blend of varied styles ranging from the swag of the Dirty South, the intensity of the Mid-West, to the soul of the West Coast where the group now resides in Hollywood, California.
Stone Watch features a unique blend of varied styles ranging from the swag of the Dirty South, the intensity of the Mid-West, to the soul of the West Coast where the group now resides in Hollywood, California.
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A friend: Yeah, and I saw their new video on Youtube.
A friend: Yeah, and I saw their new video on Youtube.
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Get the Zulu Watch mug.A phenomenon where you look at wrist in order to check the time on your watch which you swore you put on before you left the house this morning and realize its not there. Can lead to ridicule if done in response to someone asking for the time and he/she realizes what just took place.
Guy1: "Dude do you have the time"
Guy2: "Yeah sure let me just check" *looks at wrist, realizes there's nothing there*
Guy2: "So...maybe I should ask someone else?"
Guy1: "Goddamn ghost watch...."
Guy2: "Yeah sure let me just check" *looks at wrist, realizes there's nothing there*
Guy2: "So...maybe I should ask someone else?"
Guy1: "Goddamn ghost watch...."
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