Might as well add my story. I did my very first fully grey order through SSA on 8/21 from the China warehouse to catch their last sale for free shipping. Crypto was confirmed immediately. I didn’t hear anything afterwards or get tracking and was thinking I should ping the rep I used (Ray) after reading this thread.
But then realized I should check FedEx. Sure enough, I had tracking there WITH the Chinese tracking # as a cross ref. My order was shipped on 8/24 US time and arrived by air in LA on 8/27 (China is ahead by 1 day, so you do some conversion with dates). It’s currently sitting in customs.
So communication is definitely sparse from SSA because I heard nothing, but once I found the tracking myself it seems shipping was faster than expected.
Let’s hope it clears customs quickly and gets picked up by fedex soon. My rats are hungry.
Update: Just got my FedEx tracking number from the SSA rep unprompted. 🙂 I’ll update again once the package arrives and checks out.