Well Ali now claims they’ve shipped three lights priced either $7.01 or $7.02 — they’re really confused over there.
Maybe they managed to get money from a credit card or PayPal without my ever approving a payment.
There are other market segments that don’t post here- why else would Fenix have taken so long to produce neutral tints and other highly desired features?
That said this is one of the coolest things about the BLF specials. Manufacturers working with people who know about and want to buy a product essentially offload a chunk of R&D and market research costs and get a more successful product. I wonder how many BLF A6/Astrolux S1 flashlights have sold? It has seemed popular among all the other flashlights on Banggood for a long time, so it probably found an audience far beyond BLF and sold extremely well. On our side, we’ve had wide availability of an excellent light and originally it came at a very good price.
The whole point of this project to me was the Yuji leds. If they change it to something else then I probably won’t be buying them. So the first 300 might be the chosen few who get these little Yuji gems?
Why do you think that? As mentioned several times in this thread, and is also on the top of the OP, 2000 pieces wil be made with Yuji leds, of which 1000 with 5600K Yuji led, and 1000 with 3200K Yuji led. A first batch of 300 was made for the 11-11 sale, the rest will follow.
I have no idea what the plans will be now that the 11-11 sale is done. One way or another people from the list will be able to buy their C01’s and I hope just as with the Sofirn Q8 that Amazon is an option too. I will ask the next time I have contact with Barry, or perhaps Barry could chime in here (all after the weekend probably).
The list is/was merely to get an “interest list” to check how many lights people would be interested in!
The first batch was already sold and a new batch will come soon on Sofirn Official Store at AliExpress (black version).
Later, the coloured versions will also be on sale.
So, in a shorter answer, it is/will be bought on AliExpress, regardless of the list :+1: