Giveaway! Haikelite MT09R: what is your favourite colour?

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Well, you couldn’t know but I’ve chosen this nickname with a reason. :person_facepalming:

Lightbringer and me were the winners of this giveaway but until now we didn’t get our lights. :frowning: I sent Dale a message more than a week ago but didn’t get a reply yet. :frowning: If the lights were sent as promised even with the slow boat from China they should have been here by now. :frowning: :frowning: :frowning:

Hey Icarus. Another member just posted on the group buy thread that tracking showed progress. It seems a lot of lights were stuck in China during Chinese New Year, so maybe yours and Lightbringer’s lights are finally on your way.

Good to know. Thanks for the info! :+1: I hope our lights will still show up one day. :person_facepalming:

Woohoo!

Is that the “Department of Happiness”(!!) message I just saw? Kewl if so. :smiley:

Might there be any tracking numbers? I could get a “Niner Countdown” going. :smiley:

Yep that’s the one. Tracking number… pfff… don’t count on it I’d say. Dale seems to be not so responsive. After the Chinese New Year, I would not be surprised if he’s flooded with mails. Also due to issues with these lights he’s probably up to his neck figuring out what is going on.

Eh, that’s fine. If I get it, I’ll consider myself ahead of the game. :smiley:

Two more weeks gone by……… no light……… no reply from Dale………. no tracking number ………… this giveaway is one big joke…. I don’t believe anymore our lights were sent! :rage:

Do you know if they were sent? I hadn’t heard anything either way.

I emailed him a while ago, but all the talk of CNY, all the hoo-ha about how many lumens, lights just flashing a few times when the tailcap’d be screwed on, “Dude, Where’s My Charger?”, an errant Mystery Capacitor, etc., I kinda let it slip.

Wow, yeah, this is like from back in December… ouch.

Dale sent me a message regarding shipping address and my mobile number on 28th December. He said he would declare the light low value but didn’t give a shipping date. If he really shipped the light let’s say early January it should have been here now. Since Dale doesn’t reply my messages (I sent 2 in the meantime) I doubt our lights shipped. :frowning:

Ugh, that’s not happy news.

The Zen way of looking at it is that I’m getting what I paid for, but it’s still a letdown.

Wonder what happened to Dale? With the charlie foxtrot going on, did he pop a coupla beers and slide down the emergency chute or something?

:partying_face: … :disappointed: … :zipper_mouth_face:

Several interpretations are possible, but one of them is that the fail rate of all the lights that were sent out is 100%. All the 35 perform well below advertised, and all (maybe) lights have a component (capacitor) on the driver that seemingly no one knows what purpose it has, and probably only causes (potential) problems.
So, Haikelite is probably trying to retrieve all lights and mod them, while cancelling current order of flawed drivers, etc. The mass production of the SC26 seems to be delayed as well, and so is the charger/power bank.
Organisation wise it’s like a few people trip at the end of an escalator in a mall for example. The escalator keeps feeding new people who will trip over the tripped etc. The mess accumulates.
It’s just going to take time… I really don’t want to give false hope, but my guess is that you will eventually receive your lights.
The first group buy from Haikelite was with the MT07 and MT03. That was one big disaster, but eventually things were (somehow) resolved (from what I’ve read) even though it took several months for some to receive a new driver.
I’ve got both MT09R and MT07S next to me as I type, and cannot think how desperately I want Haikelite to succeed. But I also have my limits, so I’ll wait some more.

Communication, is the keyword here but it seems like Chinese companies just don’t get this… :frowning:

I honestly like their light designs and do hope for them to succeed with the business. However their lack communication or rectifying the issues is just bad business Im afraid :person_facepalming:

To me personally this was my biggest complaint of the first group buy that went sour. Back then they were really new in the business, so I can understand how things went terribly wrong. But then they just disappeared, there was no communication whatsoever to the community, zero, nada, nul. And it appears this is happening all over again.

That’s what I’m hoping, too. Forget the giveaway, even, just by not getting people lights that, well, work, would be a huge black eye for HL.

I get the whole “get ’em out the door asap” idea, but still…

OT question…

That whole deal with lights-for-donations after that hurricane kinda killed Texas and the surrounding area, remember when Lumintop was offering a bunch of Tools, and there was lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth when they never materialised?

Did any of those lights ever ship?

Just curious if there was ever any fallout about that.

No idea, first time I read about this. Perhaps you can check out that thread?

Looked, couldn’t even find it, so dunno if it got deleted. Tried terms like “hurricane”, “harvey”, etc., and was coming up dry.

Hmm, maybe one more go at it…