Thank you for the update Tally-ho!! I just happened to see your post minutes after you posted it & went straight to AE & placed my order for 9 of the 12 I asked for. (Saving the other three in case they really do make the Red & Blue models. )
I was not sure I had ordered correctly, but much to my surprise the price changed to $6.50 each a few hours later & I paid. :+1:
Thanks again for the ‘heads up’ Tally-ho & thanks to Sofirn also.
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Format is: Qty 3200K; Qty 5600K – Username (post#)
I realize it’s still only an interest list, but I was hoping the favorable response from the community would mean Sofirn would make more of these. Even if the Yuji LEDs are unavailable, a not-completely horrible 5mm LED would still be palatable in such an otherwise great light. Admittedly I know nothing about manufacturing and business management in China, but I would have thought the math for Sofirn would work out to “making/selling more of these” == “good idea.” Oh well. Sofirn has been a very cooperative company with the BLF community; if they don’t continue manufacturing the C01, I can respect their decision.
Can I make an impassioned plea to change the title from tint to color temperature? 3200k and 5600k are color temperatures NOT tints. Tint describes something different.
I think that the release of this new Sofirn light in this busy sale period is seriously affecting production capability. And I remember Barry telling me last month that for the 11-11 sale Sofirn had to produce old models and that it was holding up the production of new models. This is very chinese: they give priority to products that they have an idea of how well they sell over new models that have not proven themselves yet, however promising they seem. This is still true while Sofirn is way less conservative than other chinese budget flashlight manufacturers.
ok… but something is weird… I always get to the dutch ali express when I click on the link in post#1. When I set the page back to english there is no way to find the product on aliexpress with the search bar. are out of stock items not searchable?
also it still says 151 orders. so if there was a second batch available yesterday evening, why are the new orders not shown?
As soon as the C01 was out of stock, I could also only get the page via the link in this thread. Maybe their new stock was not ready after all and just the old page (that they did not link anymore via the Sofirn store) became active again for some reason.
One of mine is ordered (wouldn’t let me order two for some reason) and I briefly chatted with the Sofirn person, asking when the blue and red were ready. They said ten days. Hope this helps.
Hi folks, welcome to BLF!
Please know that the bought of these flashlights is already being done through Sofirn Official AliExpress store.
The list of interested people, despite important, was mostly to have a notion of how many lights would be produced.
They are on sale now! Please see post #1, or the last pages/posts on this thread and you will find the link for the store! You can buy them directly!
Please note, as well, that the batches are arriving partially, Sofirn is producing them not all at once, so if they are out of stock, wait some days and keep checking the availability!