Why is this so hard. I did not say it was okay to waste 50$ on an item, i said anyone who spends 50$ on an unproven item thinks it is okay. For those of us who are impatient, and prone to risky lifestyles would probably take this chance. This is a decision. We are all grownups here i assume.
Here are the facts as plain as i can make it. Fireflies brought 1 light to market thru basically an enthusiast comment section. Then they brought a 2nd light to market thru the same channel. This was not a secret. Anyone here knows this. The only way you got to their website was thru this portal. In the unlikeliest event you made it there by google you should have done due diligence before handing over any money to an unknown company buried somehwere in the megacapital of this planets manufacturing industry —china. If you found them thru blf then you should have also done your due diligence. The only thing i found thru googling was blf threads on rot66. In fact, i discovered the pl47 mid-thread after learning about the acebeam h30 on skylumens website. $160 was more than i was willing to spend. To get a high cri light, btw. So i googled 21700 headlamp, because i thought maybe i could get some more runtime. And was curious to see where the market was as i hadnt checked in on lights in A while. Anyway, saw a pic of the pl47 mid-thread and started to follow and do my own due diligence. I personally decided that based on rot66 reviews and comments that as long as the light pushed light out its nose it was going to be a better value than the acebeam—simply for runtime with the slightly bigger battery. All of the emitter options were simply bonuses. To me that was worth 50 bucks. I figure i got my moneys worth. And i knew that going in.
As for others, they spend their money as they see fit. There was no history on this company other than maybe a connection to enogear which i have never heard of. They had one by most accounts a successful launch with the rot66, but if you read the thread there is the same whining all thru it just like this one. Which is to say people had problems. Some were not satisfied. this is the history we have of this company. Some people were not satisfied. Yet, with this information( because your 50$ is worth more to you than mine is to me, you also did your due diligence) people still chose caveat emptor, and jumped before there was enough information to warrant such a jump. or trust, or faith or whatever synonym you wish to use.
JUST COULD NOT WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON THE NEXT COOLEST GADGET. Might be something some of us can say. The careful ones, those whose 50$ needs to be better and more wisely used chose to wait and see how it turns out. Their risk equation is less averse. They will have the luxury of patience and can use those of us who enjoy taking risks—oh, like cavers and hmm, welders, and such as canaries in the coalmine. So those of us who took a chance without alot of information—even some of the information as negative, should have had the good sense to know we were taking a risk. I mean it was stated here over and over…group buy fancy discounts—so an unproven company can rollout a product to iron out the worms and bugs and such.
All of you who want to grrrrrr at me, do it to yourself. I didnt take your hand and click “pay now”.
Just stop it. They were an unknown. There will be bugs. I am the frigging new guy for forks sakes.