So you will be spending $30 for one of these, and loving it ?
Really ?
If so, put you’re money where your mouth is.
Tracy asked for advice, I gave my own spin on it. That’s all. It is a complicated situation at the moment.
She doesn’t have to listen to a word that I say, neither do you.
I can be very positive, but it’s difficult in the current climate. I hope something changes. Soon.
And I do want to see affordable, high quality, reasonably well developed, up-to-date, torches, continue to be available.
Edit: but it’s just that we have seen an almighty amount of crud offered in past months (no, not from Sofirn necessarily) but really, surely you have noticed ?
Even though I concur with Tom Tom’s opinion about the slightly high price (and just the price!) I prefer some kind of “positive attitude” towards sellers and manufactures that offer something for us here. Even I often have to moan a lot about flashlights, their weak drivers or horrible tint shifts. However, at least I try to wrap my criticism into some benevolent words, always with the ambition for improvement suggestions towards the manufacturer.
I personally think that Sofirn is one of the rare flashlight manufacturers here who really care about the “voice of BLF”, i.e. they are interested into collaborations like the SP70 or the little AAA twisty light they took care of. They recently pleased (and still do) a lot of us with a great bargain about their Q8. So far, I never saw some retailer/manufacturer ask “What price do you think is good as group buy price?”. To my mind, this deserves some kind of respect instead of blaming the whole world for what is today as well as filling answers with prejudice, especially when someone says he does not know anything about this flashlight.
[Quote=Sofirn]Sorry that it’s only for US this time
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That’s a shame. A fan of your products. I’ve purchased SF10, SP10A, SF12, SF14 and 2x Q8. The SP33 is in transit and SF11 on back order. What and when will there be a special for down under?
Particularly the question of manufacturers offering their own “group buys” as, basically, a marketing ploy.
Quite different from the days when BLF expert teams designed and commissioned these things.
The Q8 was I think the last great example. Perhaps the FW3A might be another.
Meanwhile there has been a dilution where electronic hardware and firmware designs are commissioned from a few experts on a commercial basis, to good effect, but at least there is usually no hypocrisy about calling them self-declared “BLF Special Editions”. They stand on their own merits.
There is also the concept of speaking plainly, which I have found very rare in the US, and completely absent in Japan. Being mealy-mouthed for fear of causing any offence gets no-one anywhere.
I have found that Chinese do respect frank discussion, and listen.