Blue S2+ flashlight, for guys, for your bro!

I really did not mean Simon should put he’s name on that light… He should design such a form factor :wink:

There we agree. :beer: I arranged for one to be sent to Simon a long time ago. :wink:

Ordering anything from Simon is going to have to wait a week. There is a good reason though.

Convoy is expanding a bit and moving to a bigger factory so right now this is the home page of the Convoy store.

Any news on the black short tube for convoy s2+?

I am new to the Convoy lights but have heard a lot of good things about them. However, I have a couple of questions; first, I have heard a lot about Convoy fakes, so is this Ali site, the actual manufacturers website? Second, does anyone have any recommendations for particular lights? Lastly, how do they offer such low prices on these lights??

1- Yes, it’s Simons store, the person that makes Convoys. So no fake there.
2- I love the S2, many options for tints, how powerfully etc. Comes in a nice gift box. I also have Convoy C8, but thats a larger light. So for the pocket, S2 is the right one, and it’s powerful.
3- Direct from the producer.

  1. Buying from Simon is buying direct.
  2. Simon is a one man band and eliminates the majority of the middlemen
  3. Recommendations, of course....all of them. ;) (Seriously though, it depends on what you need the light to do then a recommendation can be made)

Thank you Ken, I appreciate the info! Looks like Simon is about to get some of my money!

does exist this s2 with the metal tailcap in black colour???
this could be my dream tripple xpl host…

Not at this time. You can get a black S2+ but only 28th the rubber switch cover.

That’s an impressive misspelling you’ve got there :slight_smile: Long fingers?

Since we’re on the topic though, has Simon ever said anything about doing the black and/or gray S2+ with the metal piston switch? I’ve always kinda figured that since those two colors were first maybe he just stacked himself deep with them and has to sell out the stock before doing another run, maybe with the change to metal. But I have no evidence to back that up. So are there plans to change those lights over to metal, too?

LOL I sent that from my phone. Stupid auto-correct. Looks like I need to turn it off again. It actually thinks the word “with” is wrong and should be 28th. :-/ I can’t say for certain what future colors might get the metal switch treatment. If we get the waterproofing issue resolved with the metal switch it will probably be available in more colors. It’s not exactly bad now but Simon wants to bring up to a more solid IPX8 standard before putting it in more lights. Simon is getting through the CNY backlog so progress on the new stuff will pick up again soon.

Thank you for the info on the note and link to buy this directly from the seller, there are many fake sites out there trying to make a quick buck off of this light, and the XML2 t4 7a is exactly what I’m looking for, for my night photography!

Hmmm, I poked through some of this thread and saw mention that GB sells fake Convoys and possibly still does?

I ordered (but haven’t yet received) like 6 more hosts from FT (S2, S5, C8), as well as a green(!) complete S2(+?) from GB.

I imagine people would’ve grexed about FT selling fakes, but haven’t seen that, so I imagine I’m “safe”. Yes?

But I’ve seen red/blue S2s, but no mention of a green one like from GB. Fake?

AX still insists on displaying pages on me in italian and/or german, not english, so I have no idea what’s going on there (or how to change it). Don’t intend to order anything from AX, then, unless I know what I’m ordering. I don’t wanna think I’m ordering an L6 and end up with 4lbs of parmesan reggiano instead. (I personally think parmesan stinks like cat-mouth, so that’s even worse).

And whut’s with the “red is for boys, blue is for girls, but this blue S2 is for the boys anyway?” dealy? Am I missing the joke? :smiley:

If anyone see’s fake Convoy lights being sold please send me a PM. I don’t like hearing that fakes are making the rounds again but I don’t have time to monitor “the internet”. :person_facepalming:

The last fake I saw was a clone of the red S2+.

The green S2+ is legit. I was behind that one and I am not aware of any fakes yet.

FT is pretty good about staying on top of fakes. Simon sells directly to FT, BG and GB as well as selling on his own Aliexpress store which is where I recommend buying from. I have seen fake Convoy lights on Ali sadly so Simon’s store is the only Ali store I can recommend. His store is here.

The red for girls was Simon’s original post for the red S2+. Simon doesn’t post here anymore. Like good sushi… I stepped in to fill that roll. Ha! :sushi: That’s for you Halo!

Anyway, when he finally agreed to make the blue one I just had a bit of fun playing off his original silly post title when I started the blue S2+ thread.

To quote the great Sir Kid Rock “It’s all good, and it’s all in fun…”. :smiley: :+1: :beer:

This may’ve been from early-early-early in the thread, not sure. Was just quoting Diablo. :smiley:

What do you look for? (Aside from a LB emitter. :smiley: )

Kewl. I’ve seen red, blue, green, and gray. Haven’t noticed black or silver, not that I looked all that hard, though.

And it insists on redirecting me to de.aliexpress.com. Wtf?!?

Before it was it.aliexpress.com .

I give up, but as I mentioned, I ain’t ordering anything from AX until they fix that. I don’t even see an option for www. or en. or anything like that. Much as I’d like to support Simon…

Anyone else have that problem?

Is he the guy pictured in post #8 in this thread?

Aha. Yeh, I figured there was some inside joke in there somewhere. :smiley:

Hey, I got a pink WK50, and I’m a-keeping it, so I don’t care about color. :smiley:

If you get redirected to a wrong language AliExpress website there’s always the “Go to Global Site (English)” button top right.

Top right… top right…

Is that “Kauferschutz”, “Hilfe”, or (doubt it) “Mobile”?

I’d post a screencap of the page I’m getting, if I were sure it isn’t verboten.

I’ve seen https://aliholic.com/change-language-aliexpress/ , but don’t get that little global-site blurb. Oh, well…

Weird.
I always see it, whichever language AliExpress shows up.

Look for persistent cookies from the site that’s misbehaving and delete them.