Carl, your experience seems consistent with my and other people's experience. I've had a bent rim reparied and lip repolished 2 times. It seems their standard answer for turnaround times is "2-3 days", which never happens. Knowing this, I started calling them daily on day #2 for updates. It still took about a week each time.
Personally, I'm OK with the wait, since they did good work for me.
I think the key is to keep the pressure on them.