He advised me that he didn’t have to wait for QC as his guys are there every day so they just pick and choose the ones they want. I mean frankly at this stage who knows how all this works? My dealer who I have used and trusted for years was told by his guy that they could get it and that turned out to be untrue, can’t blame the TD for information they’re given incorrectly, it’s a shady game I guess.
DC
Because it's 2019, here are the usual disclaimers: Buyer Beware; do your own due diligence, blah blah. Always use a TD. But...what if the TDs start taking you for granted and start giving you worse and worse service? Every TD is a superstar in the beginning, but the service quickly begins to degrade over time, no matter how much $$ I throw at them or how polite I am.
After seeing this behavior, I became quite jaded. Why bother being loyal? I can have a "new customer" experience every time, which is apparently far, far, far superior to the "old, loyal, taken-for-granted customer experience".
So now, I don't even look at anyone like a "TD" anymore. Everyone is just my personal shopper. If you have WeChat, you know what I mean. There are literally hundreds of folks dying to personally shop for you and can source you literally anything you want. If you want to pay 30% more on average--more if you are a PayPal die-hard, of course, you should stick with the value proposition of the RWI TD, they have de-risked the scenario quite a bit.
If you want to ride with training-wheels, then you just gotta wait. If you take off the training wheels, you may definitely scrape your knee a couple times, but many doors open.
But does seem odd if none of our TDS can get it accept PT but ABD manage to lay their hands on it!
DC
My experience below is factual but anecdotal regarding he-who-shall-not-be-named, hereinafter, ("Voldemort").
- JTime could not get me the EURF RM027 even though JTime said it was "in stock" before I sent the funds. After roughly one month of waiting, I asked for a refund. Due to transaction fees, I lost $$. During this entire time, Voldemort told me he could get it. Why not, my RM-035-02 came safely. And then it was in my hands literally 5 days later.
- None of the TDs could get the JBF RM001 during the period I inquired. Guess who could get it?
- I have over $10k in transactions with Voldemort. At one point $6k pending over various items and Voldemort could have easily abracadabra with my money.
As we all know, if you have a bad experience with a TD, there isn't always a happy ending either. Unless you hit narrative just right and get a few posts on your side quickly, the narrative can shift just as quickly if a neighborhood bully decides to take you down, like Tucker, for example.
Many folks don't like PureTime's Bitcoin refund policy. If you give them 1 bitcoin for a watch, but a month later, watch is "pre-order", they will refund you 0.5 bitcoin if that's the USD equivalent at the time. A RWI member complained about this, and the admins said PT simply converted to USD immediately. That made sense to me at the time. But after going through the process, PT shared a screenshot showing they had around 70, iirc, bitcoins in their wallet. So they are definitely hoarding Bitcoin. No excuse to shortchange us like this, and imo, quite, quite shady.