Best & Worst AD Experience

[exxondus]

Best:
THG @ Lucky Plaza and Millenia.
GFE (Good Friend fEel): 8/10
RTF (Return To Find): Of cos if got vit-M

What were you thinking!!


Worse:
Cortina @ Raffles as well as WoS @ Vivocit
Cortina -> Ah beng continue to tease the girls and chit chat when I standing right in front of them and wanted to ask about the bvlgari for my wife.
WoS -> Woman look up, see me went back to cutting nails

[fallraen]

Best Experience:
THG (Tangs Plaza), was served by a lady who showed me all the watches I was interested in. Then another guy came along and also made some recommendations. Was a very good experience even though they knew that I would not buy anything. Perhaps, they too free (not many customers then).

Worst Experience:
Cortina (Paragon), Entered the place, no service at all. The staff noticed me and went back to 'work'. Then saw one of their staff sms-ing away, wanted to ask him for help but when I made eye contact he immediately turned away and continued using his phone behind the counter. Foreigners come in, immediately stand up and serve. So I waited for a couple of minutes and walked out. Terrible service and since I was too free, I wrote in to the management to complain and got one of those template apologies hahaha.

[seiko.citizen]

NAC THG - Attentive guy, allow me to molest whatever pieces i wanted. Quoted me decent price (not the best in town); but i feel there is room to nego if i was serious.

[Darkangel]

Worst experience:

NAC THG (before first purchase)

Wore tshirt...shorts and sneakers..

Asked for the Rolex DJ with diamond dial...the guy just gave me the price and went back attending his customer.

[triton]

Contrary, my experience @ cortina (City hall) @ various times are treated differently. when i enquire about 2 pams, they told me list price. but willing to give me 5% discount each. maybe that day i was carry 2 coach paper bags. looks like i'm a potential carrot. @ other times, i was approach if i wanted any assistance. never pushy. Cortina @ millenia pretty alright, was served.

Sincere @ Vivocity is pretty alright. Sincere @ paragon is mixed as well. only once was i served when i enquire about 1 JLC. other times i was not asked if i need assistance. Sincere @ suntec also ok.

THG @ raffles hotel is ok. i was asked if i needed help. THG @ millenia, THG @ scotts similar to raffles hotel. @ NAC im always being served.

Dickson @ suntec is mixed.

Lee Chay, KHH, THH, WP, all similar.

Attire worn is bermudas, polo shirt and slippers most of the time. other times are doc mart shoes with jeans and polo shirt.

[Watcha]

Cortina City Hall

Cortina Raffles city:

Tell me PAM no discount. Want to sell sub date at list to me.

Straight face non nego. Maybe they want to keep for bigger carrot.

Not even interested to find out more from me or show me the items.

To think I have bought at their centre point outlet before

[1248614]

Just reading the other thread about Sincere being Rolex AD made me curious bout our own experience dealing with the major AD in SG.

Have we done such a thread / poll before? I don't mean just price (cos members of this forum is quite smart about prices! ), but overall experience, politeness (or lack off), product knowledge (or lack off), product range, etc.

A lot of time it is down to the individual S.A. serving you, or specific outlet you visited. So I expect views to differ... Please share your experience as this is useful to ppl who planned to visit the AD to buy a watch.

Major Players Include:
The Hour Glass
Sincere
Cortina
Dickson Watch
Watches of Switzerland
Others?

My vote goes to Sincere and THG in that order. My personal experience with Cortina (Cityhall) is the worst! Got served by an Ah Beng who curtly told me that Pam is price-non negotiable (read between the lines: take it or leave it), then literally snatch the watch from my hands and put back into the display case!