Dear RWI, I am more the silent member since 2015. I was originally active on the German forum Zeitgeist.
Some discloser before I start, right now I am located in Korea and Hont and I agreed, that I would publish a detailed review on a Korean site called naver (like google for korea) and make instructions for non English speaking Koreans on how to order from hont.
So here is the timeline:
5th of September - showed him what watch I want. (in this case the Datejust 41mm from clean)
got a quick answer and he send me the information for my payment.
6th of September - Paid and send him the screenshots of the transaction. (468 Euro at this time)
7th of September - My payment got confirmed. I got instruction to send him a mail, altogether with my shipping address and corresponding phone number.
QC should take 3-7 days.
< texted him once a week for any updates, got told clean operates really slow at the moment. I was okay with it. hence one message every week.>
24th of September - I got finally the QC and watch looked fine. would have preferred V2 but Hont told me it looks fine in his eyes.
25th of September - I gave him the ok, to ship the package.
I was sent an AliExpress link, and asked to buy a certain product.
Ordered and paid straight away.
26th of September - Hont gave me the tracking information.
5th of October - got the message that my package arrived.
Hont did ask me to make an unboxing video for the review before the package arrived and I did.
I was planning on editing the audio so pardon me for that, anyway the package was empty when I opened it.
I send hont a message to let him know what exactly happened and I thought to work it out somehow. Call the post office, or customs.
But right away I got accused of lying and later been told that I look Indian? I wasn't planning to publish anything negativ concerning hont, because its bad for his business and I understand that. Furthermore I was supposed to give him at least some traffic from korea.
To be honest I am emotionally really angry at this moment of this post, but I tried to write down what happened as neutral as possible.
Not sure how RWI could really help me here but I wanted to show the other side of the business, when deals don't go as planned.
And I am not only angry about hont, but also at me for not really paying much attention.
Guess I was just to excited to get the new watch.
Videos: here (I will delete this video in few days)
Screenshot of our conversation:
Any advice for me? Thank you for taking the time to go thru this post.
Some discloser before I start, right now I am located in Korea and Hont and I agreed, that I would publish a detailed review on a Korean site called naver (like google for korea) and make instructions for non English speaking Koreans on how to order from hont.
So here is the timeline:
5th of September - showed him what watch I want. (in this case the Datejust 41mm from clean)
got a quick answer and he send me the information for my payment.
6th of September - Paid and send him the screenshots of the transaction. (468 Euro at this time)
7th of September - My payment got confirmed. I got instruction to send him a mail, altogether with my shipping address and corresponding phone number.
QC should take 3-7 days.
< texted him once a week for any updates, got told clean operates really slow at the moment. I was okay with it. hence one message every week.>
24th of September - I got finally the QC and watch looked fine. would have preferred V2 but Hont told me it looks fine in his eyes.
25th of September - I gave him the ok, to ship the package.
I was sent an AliExpress link, and asked to buy a certain product.
Ordered and paid straight away.
26th of September - Hont gave me the tracking information.
5th of October - got the message that my package arrived.
Hont did ask me to make an unboxing video for the review before the package arrived and I did.
I was planning on editing the audio so pardon me for that, anyway the package was empty when I opened it.
I send hont a message to let him know what exactly happened and I thought to work it out somehow. Call the post office, or customs.
But right away I got accused of lying and later been told that I look Indian? I wasn't planning to publish anything negativ concerning hont, because its bad for his business and I understand that. Furthermore I was supposed to give him at least some traffic from korea.
To be honest I am emotionally really angry at this moment of this post, but I tried to write down what happened as neutral as possible.
Not sure how RWI could really help me here but I wanted to show the other side of the business, when deals don't go as planned.
And I am not only angry about hont, but also at me for not really paying much attention.
Guess I was just to excited to get the new watch.
Videos: here (I will delete this video in few days)
Screenshot of our conversation:
Any advice for me? Thank you for taking the time to go thru this post.