It's just luck man. 7 days from start to finish is possible if every single beat and luck is in play. They have the watch in hand on the office. The watch doesn't sit at any of the shipping points waiting, customs passes it through, the quickest I've ever had something in hand is 10 days from order to on wrist.
Regarding deadlines, 10-13 days depending on the watch is still within timeframe. Do not treat the rep game as having "deadlines", they're more like "suggestions" and you'll have an easier time.
Maybe communication can be a sore point but most of the time TDs don't really have anything to say or respond, but I get it if you're nervous on the first rep but you'll look back and see all the worrying is for naught.
Read my guide in the signature.
If that matters, It seems that I was sending emails to the "wrong" address, so, to anyone visiting from Google or elsewhere, maybe don't only send or reply to emails for ongoing orders from [email protected] (even though your order confirmation and payment validation did came from it) and also use [email protected] or [email protected] (these may change from time to time so check out this forum too) , and then you should get quick answers, which I eventually got quickly earlier today. So, that's somehow on me, but putting a simple email domain forwarder could alleviate potential confusions.
Hi ! Thanks, and impressive guide indeed, I mean, did a fair bit of research so, and sure I completely understand what's at play, it's just that I've done the ecommerce thing my whole life and I'm more interested in the process than even the pieces, frankly, since I trust my research and didn't pick TrustyTime by accident, so that's cool !
I bought my first (and only) rep on defunct
ReplicaWatchCity.com (webarchive) back in 2009, so I was really excited to see what improvement had been made over 16 years, and I didn't see much. If anything, it got worse.
Like, people don't even bother creating nice websites anymore and just sell the stuff right out of mainstream apps like Telegram and Whatsapp
(not Andrew, who has an actual website which is a great thing) which strikes me as both incredibly idiotic, inefficient and a safety/privacy nightmare.
Like, I've read a topic over here where customer's personal phone numbers were supposedly leaked or sold from a Trusted Dealer's WhatsApp Account, and that's obviously not the worse that can happen with that kind of attitude.
But yeah... Another thing that's puzzling me is how come factories don't have their own distribution networks, stock management and processes ?
I've nerded out on the industry quit a bit, but couldn't figure that one out. The Chinese have proven to be an incredibly efficient people and most of what I'm seeing in terms of processes is like the antithesis of efficiency.
Anyway, thanks for your answer and I'll keep reading stuff on the subject, maybe try to find a couple of insider's podcasts, although I'm guessing most of the good stuff is... in Chinese.
nonexistant. 
