NationStates Jolt Archive

So, yesterday I'm cruising around Atlantic City, doing my whacky and wild thing (By which I mean playing penny slots and cheering when I leave after having won three cents) when I signed up for a rewards program at Caesars Palace (Look, it's free and I get free stuff, I don't see a downside). I got my card and a little booklet of coupons and proceeded to flip through the booklet and gasped when I saw a $100 gift card (Applicable to purchases of $500 or more) for Movado. Movado.

Movado, for those who don't know, is a Swiss luxury watch company whose name is Esperanto for "movement," over a hundred years old, and a maker of damn fine watches (I am normally an extreme hater of almost all things luxury, since most "luxury" products are actually of the exact same quality as the $10.99 product I can find on sale in my corner store, but watches are a product whose quality I can appreciate; precision is worth it). My father received a movado several deades ago when he graduated from college, and he would've gotten me one if my grandparents hadn't already given me a watch, and when I see that I'm getting $100 off one of these beauties I'm considering a little splurge spending. Unfortunately, the coupon for the legendary watch company, which has a picture of a watch on the coupon, "excludes watches, services, gift cards and clearance merchandise."

Read that again: Excludes watches, services, gift cards and clearance merchandise.

What the hell else do they have? When I saw this I actually walked across the boardwalk to the local movado branch, walked up to the staff, and asked what they had that was actually covered by the coupon. Their response? Nothing. Or rather, nothing worth $500.

Honestly, I like the brand, but what else am I gonna buy there for $500? Two dozen wall clocks? Ten pairs of earrings? I suppose I could stock up on anniversary and Valentines Day gifts for the next decade or so, but that's about it.

I get that Caesars is just giving out these coupon booklets as an enticement to sign up for the program, which then brings you back to the casino for more gambling, but still, this is just ridiculous. It's a watch gift card that excludes watches. Epic fail.

That's almost as good as the "Buy four shock absorbers, get one free!" ad I saw that one time.

expensive watches are often less accurate then the $10.99 quartz ones. quartz watches are cheaper then mechanical ones

Epic fail.

Agreed....

...considering that nobody I know wears a watch anymore (they all use their cell-phones to check the time), you'd think watch companies would try to promote their products.

expensive watches are often less accurate then the $10.99 quartz ones.

Cite?

Cite?

http://www.timecafe.com/Mechanical_Quartz.htm

I found a Macy's coupon like that once, it was like $10 off your purchase of $10 or more, but didn't include, cookware, electronics, clothes, jewelry, make-up, sale items, clearance items, furniture, appliances, gifts, special values,tools, computer or video games.

I asked "what else do you sell?" and the associate said "um....mints? and catalogs?"

expensive watches are often less accurate then the $10.99 quartz ones. quartz watches are cheaper then mechanical ones

True, unless you go for REALLY GOOD mechanical watches (which usually are extremely expensive) - some of them operate perfectly even in horrible environments, like magnetic fields in the order of 1 T.