Ok, Like usual, if I missed something, point it out.
Wow, come on people, calm down. We are doing the best we can.
We have been VERY open about the going on’s with this GB from the very start. Nothing is being hidden or covered up.
The shipping issues boil down to 2 factors:
1: The reflector factory said that they would have their complete reflector order ready in early December. Lumintop took them at their word and opened the GB for payments hoping to get the lights shipped before Christmas.
2: The reflector factory had issues producing such large reflectors with good quality and was only able to deliver an average of ~150 reflectors a week so far. Leaving Lumintop holding 1000 flashlights without reflectors and unable to do anything about it.
Put simply there is nothing else for us to learn or tell anyone. The reflectors are not ready, the lights will not work without reflectors, they can not be shipped until the reflectors are ready.
End of story.
As long as lights keep shipping on a semi-consistent basis, that is all that matters and I will not hassle Lumintop or Neal about more then that. There is simply nothing they or anyone else can do about it.
Now, this complaining is also part of why lumintop reverted back to the V1 prototype reflector quality, people can’t make up their minds, do they want it now or do they want it done the best it can be?
Can’t have it both ways. Lumintop could have dropped the quality further and been caught up by now but they have stuck to making the quality we stated with the V1 reflectors.
Reading all of this, I would also say that getting lights out faster is way more important then slight improvements in reflector quality.
Lets stop the mob mentality.
Anyone that is not happy with the wait, is welcome to request a refund.