@Niner wrote:
On a related note, I have a watch shop at a place that sells things like Rolex, and on the survey, it asks for the make, year, and model of my car?!? I'm going to walk there. It's like 0.25 miles from my house. Then it asked what watch I wear, expecting it to be a 10k watch. I wear a Fitbit. It also asks about education level and household income.
I can understand why a client would want someone to look the part, but in some ways that's a really stupid requirement. Years ago, I did a shop for Piaget watches at their boutique on Fifth Avenue in NYC. I used to love doing high-end jewelry shops, but the Piaget store sticks out in my memory because I felt like such an imposter. Even in my nicest clothes, I knew I would never pass as someone who could afford one. But I always remember what a very wealthy friend of mine told me once, and that was that she expected the same kind of service whether she went into a store wearing her best, or wearing jeans and boots with horseshit on them, lol (she had horses). So, I'd think of the "millionaire next door" that no one knows has money and I'd go do these shops. And of course, even if they knew I was never going to buy or suspected I was a shopper, I was never made to feel out of place and always got paid for the shops.
Years later, I managed a fairly high-end housewares store, and we had all kinds of customers at every income level. But you simply could not predict who could afford what, at least not based on their clothing, jewelry, grooming, or the car they drove up in. Sometimes the most polished, or famous, customers were the most frugal; then in walks someone who looks like they can barely make ends meet and they would order 20 place settings of expensive gold-rimmed dinnerware with all the serving pieces, or several Baccarat crystal decanters, and have it all sent to their house in the Hamptons. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/23/2023 07:31AM by shopnyc.