Heyy man would you mind sharing the mall you go ytd? I am going to Shenzhen the coming Friday. Wanna get something good.
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Trip to China - Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen
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Doing this is pretty pointless guys...
The main factories have agents who work with the Dealers, the high end stuff is not on the street, maybe.. just maybe you will find some, like in upstairs rooms, like the op did, but its already been sold through an agent or wholesaler and changed hands once or twice, the prices will average higher than td's, then of course you have no warranty.
As or "secret" places.. wise up haha of course they are secret, i mean its not like you see public weed and coke farms do you, jeez..
The main factories have agents who work with the Dealers, the high end stuff is not on the street, maybe.. just maybe you will find some, like in upstairs rooms, like the op did, but its already been sold through an agent or wholesaler and changed hands once or twice, the prices will average higher than td's, then of course you have no warranty.
As or "secret" places.. wise up haha of course they are secret, i mean its not like you see public weed and coke farms do you, jeez..
I was more curious than anything else. The watches I bought in Watch City are so bad I wouldn't even post pictures here. That was long before I joined RWI. I am well aware I receive the best service and watches from my TD.
Sorry but why is it pointless to discuss where we might be able to find high quality reps from??? Yes the TD's on this site are great, but I would bet my life that they only account for a very small proportion of the total sales of these high end reps, and these very same models are available in markets in Asia.
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That is a good idea. My last trip to China I had Lucy ship them to my hotel. I always fit the new watches to my wrist and bring my own watch cases to bring them through customs.
good luck spending all that time trying to find such a place to save yourself 20 or 30 bucks and to have no warranty.
its been discussed enough over the
years, there is no treasure island lol
its also a well known fact that the main dealers get their pick of the batches,
not the dude down the market..
after a production run the makers filter their batches, the best will get separated from the others with a scratch or wonky marker etc.
not the dude down the market..
after a production run the makers filter their batches, the best will get separated from the others with a scratch or wonky marker etc.
Is it really a well known fact that TD's get the "pick of the batches"? From reading puretimes posts on the mechanics of the rep market I didn't get that imoression at all.
Anyway the point is it would be exciting to find places where you can actually see a range of products and choose, and buy it there and then. With TD's, buying a watch, waiting for order confirmation, qc pics, international mail etc is not all that much fun. Any saving in price would just be a nice bonus.
Forgive me for my lack of knowledge about the rep scene, I have only been into it for a month.
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Even if you manage to find someone with the good reps at the markets, they don't keep a high number of stocks so chances of finding what you want is slim. In the end, you'll still need to order from them and they will deliver it to you.
About a week ago I was in Shanghai, Tianzifang which is a traditional street market that is mostly bars and shops selling tourist goods. I saw a few Panerai, and Breitling watches out on the street. I briefly looked at them and they appeared to be low quality.
Why is it pointless to go there buddy? We don't really have much chance to go to China and we just wanna do a treasure hunting when we have nothing to do when we were there. And someone did manage to find some reps with very high quality and why couldn't we just ask him to pass us an address here? Even if we didn't find anything good in the end of the day, we are okay with that. We never said we wanna find anyone to replace our TD and sure we couldn't.
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Well, in GZ, you can take the MTR (blue line) to the Guangzhou Train Station. Head to Zhanxi watch market area, and you'll see several buildings operating similarly. Wear one of your better reps, walk around, and if someone approaches asking if you want to see the good stuff, use your knowledge to let them know what you're talking about. The versions, factories etc. Oh, use some English as well. If you speak too comfortably in their native slang, they'll be wary. That's when they'll take you to one corner, and present to you the better reps, one by one...
Thanks for the advice man. I do speak a little Mandarin but definitely far from fluent. But do you have any contact I'm Shenzhen? CoZ GZ is quite far from me.
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Went to the watch market in Shenzhen ytd. The offer they are giving is quite good tbh. Perhaps an at least 20to30 off from our TD. The problem is the watches u want might just not in stock at the moment. So probably u would have to order from them and wait a few days for the watch. And mine quanrantee they could change the watch if there is QC issues.
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I went to the one in Huaqiang North. Paid 500 deposit and the watch will probably come next week.
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Oh, Huaqiang Bei. Been there, lots of electronics but not much in the way of watch reps, well at the stores I went to, and I've been there like 6 times. There are a lot more in the Louhu Commercial Center, at the Louhu MRT station. It's a tall building next to a park and a bus terminal.
Post pictures of the watches when you get them.
