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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6234625" data-attributes="member: 2525">AGAIN with the bizarre assumptions about other people's business without even asking first?Who said anything about a few hundred?  We order over three hundred thousand products from China every year.  For reference, my company is roughly the size of Paizo, and we've been around since 1946.  We're not tiny, and I really do know what I'm talking about on this relatively obscure topic.  I don't claim to have deep knowledge on hundreds of topics, just a few, and this happens to be one of those few.Like I said earlier, the more you order, the faster it's made, unless you exceed the total possible output for your factory (which is rare) and have to use multiple factories.  Generally, the more you're making, the more resources get devoted to it, and the higher priority is placed on it, and the cheaper the cost per unit, and the cheaper the shipping per unit.  We're not talking about a nation lacking in manpower and resources to produce manufactured goods here.  The only thing that slows them down is small orders - which get the lower priority and the less efficient factories.That makes much more sense.  And that probably is from order date to US Distribution date, which would include the shipping time, and then the QC on landing, warehousing and truck shipping to their central warehouse, order taking, and distro to retail units and places like Amazon.  So they probably get the product physically produced in 6 months (depending on whether the Chinese New Year month falls in there or not), and the total time to the retail store is 9 months.</blockquote>

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