this is a rolex one of the most
difficult items to buy at retail to buy
one new you have to go to one of these
places but cabinets are empty not a
rolex in sight and the staff just cannot
sell you anything
or can they
well see i know they can because i get
dms from people every day selling their
watches that they just got from an
authorized dealer what does this mean
well it means that they're holding
watches in the back of the store where
you can't see them my aim this week is
to try and get some of those watches out
from the back of the store and then
convince the staff to sell me one
it's currently monday and i have to
think of a plan to get my hands on one
of the most difficult things to buy
within just five days what makes it even
harder for me is that i am a watch
dealer and i create watch content on my
youtube channel please like and
subscribe and there's a chance that some
of the staff might even know me from a
video they've seen in the past this is
going to be incredibly difficult
step one i need to find a location where
i should buy this watch i live in london
the capital city so you don't have to be
a rocket scientist to presume that 80s
in london probably have the highest
amount of traffic going in and out of
the stores every day i think i need to
choose a town or a city that is big
enough to have a few ids but also small
enough where there isn't a celebrity or
a billionaire walking in every 10
minutes rolex must have heard about my
quest because they very kindly put
together a map of every single
authorized dealer that sells rolex
watches in the country before i had a
look though i decided to google the top
10 worst cities in the country
i didn't want to lose my life while
doing this with these places out of the
picture i looked at my options and came
up with a final three okay so i'm
thinking leeds brighton or preston hear
me out here's why leads they're in by
default i love leeds right brighton not
too far from london i might see paul
thorpe and i know there's a few ads
there or
preston it's a familiar place to me i
know it's quiet in the city and there
are ids there okay i'll tell you what
i'm gonna do i'm gonna leave it to fate
so i'm gonna flip a coin and basically
if it lands on heads i'll go to preston
if it lands on tails i'll go to leeds
okay and to prove that this is legit i
will flip a coin
what is it it is okay tails so
looks like i'm going to leads
so off i went like a brave little hobbit
on the adventure of a lifetime
if this was going to work i thought i
might as well stay the night just so i
could find as many ads as possible in
the area bags packed train ticket booked
let's go buy this watch hang on hang on
hang on i have no idea what i'm gonna
say when i actually get into the
authorized dealer like i can't just be
myself i have to like i have to make up
a story about my life so should i just
be like a crypto millionaire or like a
property investor from what i do know
about ads i need to prove two things i
have a stable job and also i have a high
disposable income so
back to google respected high earning
jobs
data scientist airline pilot
lawyer
doctor yeah whatever i'll be a doctor i
now have a newfound profession as a
doctor but if i know anything about ads
they will check this so i need to create
a fake linkedin profile i know nothing
about studying medicine at university
but i do know youtube quite well ali
abdul is a doctor and he studied
medicine so i'm literally gonna copy his
profile on my linkedin profile so yeah
i'm sorry i'd mean no offense to anybody
by doing this but
it's for a good cause so
cambridge university yeah uh i did a
bachelor of surgery yeah three years
okay if they ask why i'm trying to buy a
watch so far away from london i'm just
going to say my family home is near
i want to use that as my address because
i'm back all the time and there you have
it what my life could have looked like
if i actually listened in school is this
even legal anyway time to go get this
watch while trying to sleep last night i
did have a very important realization
i don't even know which watch i'm gonna
ask for i need to be
i need to be strategic i can't ask for
an obvious watch that i'll just get an
instant rejection from so like you know
like a gmt daytona submariner sky
dweller basically every single rolex
right but um yeah i need to be careful
um my mind goes to datejust my mind
automatically goes there because there
are so many different variations i feel
like they might have one in i want to go
full steel i want a watch that i would
actually want to buy right um so i think
full steel but i think i should go for
smooth
bezel because not a lot of people would
ask for the smooth bezel on any watch
really let's be honest everyone wants
the fluted bezel so i might just go
datejust 41 oyster bracelet smooth bezel
any dial like literally don't care so
all right that's my game plan let's go
do it there was no going back this was
my moment to finesse the ad into
thinking phil reid was a junior doctor
that was just desperate to impress all
the nurses with his brand new rolex
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i cannot believe how well that just went
i honestly i can't i can't believe it
like first of all i didn't get kicked
out which is like the best news ever sat
down with the guy he showed me three
watches and one of the watches was the
it was the day just 41 oyster bracelet
and smooth bezel and the dial was a blue
dial like that is one of the best
datejust options that that i can get in
terms of dial so
i am i'm shocked he basically said
someone's going to buy the watch later
today but if if they don't come in he
would
consider selling it to me i know that's
i know that they want to do
background checks on me i know they want
to check me out online so i'm praying my
linkedin pulls through come on dr phil
dr reed and i'm hoping they don't check
my instagram because
that would be a big giveaway but i did
give my full name not phil i gave philip
not phil so i can't believe this might
work i cannot believe it with only a few
hours until the ad closed i thought i
might as well hang around the city the
nerves were getting to me it was getting
later and later
until
ladies and gentlemen i got the call
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yeah i can come in i can come in now
okay right okay so i just had a chat
with the sales person they didn't say
anything um all they said was can you
come in tomorrow and i'm kind of like no
but i can come in now
um so they were like okay if you're
quick i don't know what they're gonna
say it's either yes you've got the watch
or
maybe something else that i don't want
which i hope not or they're gonna be
like dude we know who you are like why
are you doing this uh this could be very
very awkward everything i've worked for
this week has come down to this am i
about to expose the ridiculous system
that ads have with their customers or am
i about to beat them at their own game
well this is where i find out wish me
luck
i did it i managed to get a rolex watch
from an ad i did it in four days because
today's thursday i got the watch
yesterday mad that is absolutely crazy i
cannot believe it and guess what
i actually managed to get
the watch that i wanted here it is the
blue dial datejust 41 oyster bracelet
smooth bezel
this is it's ridiculous so basically
when i went back into the ad the guy was
like oh so the guy didn't show up which
you know you know it happens sometimes
so i think you're very lucky um yeah so
we'd like to sell this to you and i was
just like oh no what a shame the guys
missed out
obviously knew that i was from
from the start right but he sold me the
watch like
like i
i can't i i literally cannot believe it
bezel protect it like i can't believe it
guess what i just
got that tell me
i do always buy watches i got this from
an a.d believe it or not
i promise you got it in leeds this week
i know you did it
i promise
what this is what i thought you might be
thinking phil great whatever you bought
a watch from an ad like what are you
trying to prove well i'm trying to prove
that you can do it you just need to be
smart about it and also another reason
why i've done this is like i'm gonna
sell it to you guys like i said at the
start of the video i am a watch dealer
this is my business so i've got this
watch if you want to avoid doing what
i've done over the last week you can
just buy this and i am going to be
selling it cheap because i got it from
retail i got it from the ad so it means
i can sell it to you so if you're
interested in this unworn datejust 41
blue dial let me know email me dm me
it's all down there in the description
let me know but on that note guys i'm
very happy i hope you've enjoyed this
video it's been really really fun to
make this um yeah much love like
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bye