First, I’d be very hesitant to buy anything off TikTok and I’ve heard a few terrible experiences of sellers shipping shitters instead of the real watch or just an empty box and disappearing.

Second, here’s the thing that you have to remember: You are buying illegal goods from criminals in a foreign country. Love the rep game, but any other characterization is false. There’s a reason we all talk about raids and arrests and customs seizures.

There’s a saying in the gen world “buy the seller not the watch”, and it applies here too. You have to ask yourself, when I’m hiring a middleman in China to procure me a watch and sneak it through your nation’s customs, is a 23% discount worth it.

For me, I buy from a TD that I trust and I pay that extra for a few perks. Easy communication, fast and reliable shipping, and an opinion I trust. I have never had my preferred TD push back on an RL, and in one case he self RLd after I GLd because he saw something I didn’t and the second watch was better.