Well, we could rush the PM’s and risk making some of the same mistakes as last time or we can spend the time needed to fix the issues from last time, learn from them and then hopefully not repeat them next time.
I vote for the latter option.
Plus since we are still limited by the reflector production rate it would not really speed up the actual shipping times anyways.
Luckily thread is not locked again.
Most materials of GT are big size, so its material shortage problems are real to me. Any supplier can’t deliver the part on time and with good quality, it would/will cause delay. Very simple.
That is true I know Lumintop did sell a lot to a person in South Africa. He selling it now for $700 plus with batteries included. Convert back to rand will give you around R8900.
How do you know he has a lot? Maybe he has a few in stock and high order quantity will need to be shipped from Lumintop directly.
Let’s have a conspiracy theory. If he can get big customer for example military to buy 100 GT at USD650 per piece, Lumintop should serve that order first. I personally will look down Lumintop if they don’t serve that order first. I hope Lumintop earn more money outside this GB or any future GB, so that Lumintop becomes long term GB partner producing high quality flashlight. Smart partner is better than stupid partner.
Just so you know, in my years shipping internationally I have been surprised more time then you would think when a package would take 60 days or more to clear customs. I also had a few cases where the package just disappeared for over 3-4 months and then suddenly turned up on my doorstep one day.
They ran out of the AR glass lenses, they have not been able to ship any lights due to this. They are supposed to get 1000 lenses late next week. So shipments should start again after that.