OK this is a story....a true story I feared I would never be able to tell...When I tell people what I do they are almost always confused...
after 20 minutes of explanation I get "you sell watches"?
"No.
I sell watch winders and watch boxes"....starting over...
"But watches have batteries"...never mind.....
Not everyone owns an Automatic Watch, or even a watch for that matter now a days, but I have a friend (acquaintance might be a better term, but...anyway), he is an older guy, long retired. He owns a Rolex and a nice house and likes otherwise to buy cheap things! He loves to save money on the front end...
He always brags about the money he saves on this or that...he is a college professor, or rather was, but still at heart can't shake the air of superiority syndrome some professors seem to elude, please don't take offense. I elude that same smug obnoxious confidence, sometimes myself, ha ha...anyway.
When my friend learned what I do, he said he had researched watch winders and found in the Sky Mall magazine a watch winder that was much cheaper than the stuff I sold....he asked my opinion on them I told him, he was right they are much "cheaper" than the stuff I sell, I also explained it would die and early death, that you get what you pay for.... he bought it anyway....months went buy, maybe it was close to a year, he kept telling me how great it was working winding his and his wife's matching Rolex watches. I noticed she would just look on and shake her head ever so slightly...then finally when I had almost given up hope...his wife, egging him on at a dinner party got him to admit to me 2 things.
1.) His Rolex (and hers too) was in the shop for repair and
2.) the watch winder had stopped working, but only after it started making so much noise they could not stand it...so its untimely death was a relief...
He has not placed an order for a watch winder from us yet, and I plan to sell it at full price for the tormenting I took while we waited for his cheap watch winder to break his watches and then to die....(OK, I do not know for certain that his cheap winder broke his watches, all I know is they needed servicing because they stopped working for some reason!) But his wife is pretty sure the winder did the deed. Ha Ha...Watching them fight without fighting is amusing.
I suppose I should give him a
trouble free Orbita Watch Winder for proving me correct! Nah!....he was so cock assured about it for months. I simply smugly replied "whad I tell ya?"...ugh....ha ha...anyway, remember friends you get what you pay for and what comes around goes around!
Donald
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