I bought dozens of times from Banggood and have never experienced FRAUD. Of course shipping is slow but I don’t expect any better considering I choose free shipping every time. The only two times I had an issue was with the Astrolux S42 that wouldn’t turn on but after I sent them a video, they noticed there was an extra o-ring in the threads that prevented electrical contact. I removed it and it worked. The other time (I cannot remember whether it was Banggood or Gearbest) was when I placed order for the Skyrc MC3000 charger. It sat for months without shipping. I just cancelled the order and bought an Xtar VP4 Plus Dragon on Amazon instead.
With that said, I would buy from MTN or local retailers when possible to help keep them in business. But sometimes BG prices with the M4D, Freeme, Fin17 coupons are so freaking ridiculously cheap, that it would not make any sense for me to buy elsewhere.
Thanks for searching Barkuti. Do not get me wrong. I am only looking for a nice replacement. But only if it is better than the original! Still hope that the original is ok and without flaws!
But if there are flaws i will try to buy a new lens from Jaxman. Or find something that is worth spending a few bucks on.
Anyone know if this Cometa (and/or Sofirn SP33) can use Keeppower IMR 26650 6000mAh 20A unprotected cell or the protected 10A version? It is sligthly fatter than standard, like 26.7mm or 26.8mm against standard 26.5mm.
send mail to BG for get news about my status back order.
Then received auto message “We are celebrating our Mid-Autumn Festival from Sept.24th to Sept.25th. For this reason, we may not be able to reply to your messages as fast as usual”
Hope that’s why delay orders,but…
I tried to cancel one order and a popup message said I can’t, then I saw a message in the contact page that said “Due to the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a delay to reply from Sept,24 to 25th” well that’s nice but they did ship one item I purchased along with a cometa within 3 hours of the purchase, the short tube for the Lumintop GT but the cometa is still in processing,
We shall see I guess… and I did know better but went ahead and ordered a few of these lights anyhow, so my fault I guess.
They sure have a lot of holidays.
Edit: Whoops sorry I didn’t see the message above mine saying the same thing, I guess we both tried the same contact method, so just re-confirming the other message ha ha… :person_facepalming:
Except this Cometa was a BG sponsored light. You weren’t around a few years ago, but Neal used to work for them and was the lead contact for this light build. He got Manker involved in ripping the design from Jaxman, and Banggood involved buying the lenses under false pretense from Jaxman to get the production run going. Turned into a huge fiasco with Neal getting fired, Jaxman, BG, and Manker not talking to each other to this day.
So, don’t think for a moment that BG is under-selling anyone with this Cometa. If you’re going to feel bad about anything, feel bad for Jaxman who was used as a pawn in this whole thing, and buy the original Jaxman Z1
Yep if you look through the old thread you will see me and manker in a heated argument cause i called them out on ripping of people/companies designs. I have never bought or reviewed a manker branded light.
I use to have an opinion but it gets me in trouble lol
To add to the drama of the Cometa half of the people from CPF italy went MIA before the issues where fixed lol. Still to this day have not logged on. They where admins on CPF italy i think.
and the 2 18650 gift batteries shipped very fast XD