The (Less intimidating) Watch Thread

[Matt]

There was a riot at a mall in LA and now all the Swatch store carrying these closed before they went on sale.

[Matt]

One of the bystander quotes was like This is the scariest thing thats ever happened to me at a mall.

[FlavourFade]

Same thing in Amsterdam, police had to evacuate a shopping mall. Now they are on eBay for 1500-2000€

[Go For Chill]

The Dallas store opened at 6:45am when they normally open at 11:00. They sold the 45 units they had, then shut down for the day.

It was the same story when they released the Moon Swatch, albeit with less violence. I guess Omega people are just a classier bunch than the AP crowd. They aren't limited, so I'll wait until the hype dies and go pick one up for retail. You're insane to pay thousands of dollars just to be the first to get a plastic, non-limited novelty watch.

[Giles]

[Sage954]

Case study for the Broken Window Theory.

[Matt]

@Giles were you in line?

[Jord]

@Matt I've just got a picture in my head of Giles camping out since Wednesday...

I don't see why people do this, I've seen videos of fights breaking out and people getting pepper sprayed... All to make $400 on "reselling" it, for the few days you spent sitting outside on a camping chair?

[Matt]

Of all the pics I saw it looked like it was almost all resellers. I’m not even sure how you fix that problem but it’s definitely sucks.

[Giles]

@Matt said in The (Less intimidating) Watch Thread:

@Giles were you in line?

Nope. I was exclaiming because I do not understand.......

[Brian]

glad im away at the beach and also glad we don’t have a shop here in Adelaide
The queue for when an iPhone gets released are bad enough