----- Original Message -----
From:  Stephen Rudnick  [email protected]
To:  Carl Marcus  [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:47 PM
Subject: repair of my Rolex
 
Dear Carl,

I want to thank you so very much for the super fast, efficient and courteous service your wonderful business has given me!

While I am not as big a customer as some of your successful doctors, and other professional clients can afford to be (and I do wish I was able to give you a lot more business), I have never had service from any place like I get from your business...Capetown Diamond!

When I was more fortunate and able to work on the NYSE back in the 1980's, I could easily afford Rolex watches and have owned several of them. When I needed service on them, I sent them to the Rolex HQ in NYC. It took months at times to get my watch back and sometimes it was not done correctly the first time. But OH BOY, did they remember to charge you big-time for the work, regardless!

I have used jewelers who were Rolex authorized, where I bought one of my Rolex watches and it would be 3-4 weeks and a considerable bill just to change a battery! They always told me that they needed to do this and that to the watch, blah, blah, blah. And while it is probably true, they made sure that I was billed quite heavily for this service.

When I discovered your amazing business, and saw the way people were treated by you and your superb staff of knowledgeable, friendly and mannerly people, and I read about your warranty for watches your business sold, I wondered why it took me so long to find such a place as Capetown Diamond! I felt like a real putz for not finding your business sooner!

I have never experienced faster service, friendlier people, better packing of returned items, or watch repair people anywhere that were better qualified and provided exactly what you state will be offered, then your business offers, and that is no B.S.!

My Rolex kept perfect time, but for some reason, perhaps my sweat from my wrist, the crown would not open. Your staff not only fixed it at NO CHARGE, but put a new battery in it and did it all under your Capetown Lifetime Warranty, which makes the Rolex warranty look like a joke by comparison. It didn't even cost me return postage!

You would think that a company like Rolex which charges so much for their watches would offer YOUR type of warranty with the purchase of their watches from their "Authorized Rolex Dealers". Pigs would fly first!, but I digress.

While I only make $18,300 per year as a State of Florida employee, every saved dollar adds up. Having the ability to find a person in the watch business as honest, and sincere as you are is a God-send for someone like me that had the finer things prior to the stock market crash of 1987, and had to liquidate all of my jewelry and other possessions after that event.

I never thought that I would ever be able to buy another Rolex, used or new, with the way they have escalated in price over the years, but your business not only provides the very best and most fair prices on new AND "pre-owned" watches of all makes and models, but your service department far and away exceeds any other service department that I have dealt with in NYC, or anywhere else for that matter!

You have a super-first-class way of doing business with people that is missing in most businesses today. I have had to deal with other jewelers for service on items purchased from them locally, and as a buyer, one has to have almost as much money after the sale just to maintain the purchased item. These other dealers really "see you coming", as it is said!

The business world could learn many things from your way of doing business with people. Your way allows even the small guy, like myself, to enjoy some of the finer items in life without mortgaging off my condo to do it.

God bless you, your family and your employees for being the generous and honest people that you are. You are truly at the top of the list when defining the word "class". Never in my life have I ever dealt with any business that takes care of their customers AFTER THE SALE the way you and Capetown Diamond takes care of your customers! Words cannot express my appreciation for your way of doing business.

My Very Sincerest Wishes to you, your family and staff.

Stephen Rudnick
Fort Myers, Florida
Dear Ken and Jon,

I just wanted to drop you both a line to thank you very much for all the trouble you went through to get me the extra link for my Rolex Oyster Quartz watch

The watch fits perfectly!  :)

I sincerely appreciate all the effort you both made for me.

Very Truly,
Stephen Rudnick
Ft Myers, Florida

Dear Carl,

I would just like to write to you, after speaking with William at your Roswell, Georgia store, who suggested that I do this.

I have purchased, since the early 1990s, three fine watches from your company.  My last watch purchased about two years ago, was a Rolex Oyster Quartz Datejust, which was stolen from me over the weekend of 4/30/05.

As I work for the State of Florida, it takes me a long time to save up for a good watch and I have only worn the Rolex, since purchasing it from your company.

Needless to say, I am very hurt that my watch was stolen, and due to the income I make, it was not placed on our homeowners insurance due to the rates.

I only thought of one place to possibly get a replacement for this watch and that is your fine company, of course.  even though I am poor by comparison to the many shoppers that call on you for their needs, your kindness, professional attitude, and lifetime service guarantee has made it possible for me to get a watch that I  could afford to wear, and have service provided when needed, without the extra cost this service would normally cost someone buying a watch from another company.

Now if I can only find the means to get a replacement for it, I will be happy again.  I just wanted to let you know that I would shop no place else for a watch other than Capetown Diamond Corporation.

Very Truly,
Stephen Rudnick
Ft. Myers, Florida