Do AP dealers do the same “relationship” stuff as Rolex ADs?

Hey there!

Long story short is I’ve found myself in the market for a new timepiece and there are a few APs that I could swing by stretching my budget a bit. But reading on here, it seems like the boutiques play similar games to Rolex dealers, like requiring purchase history or making you buy things you don’t actually want as a precursor to showing you anything you do want.

What are folks’ general experiences like with AP? I have something of a distaste for having to supplicate myself to a store for the privilege of forking over tens of thousands of dollars for a product, but I don’t know whether for AP it’s only certain models and based on actual scarcity or whether it’s just the masturbatory self importance Rolex ADs display?

Thank you!!