You do realize Aliexpress is just an overall selling platform like eBay and not an actual store, right? So each store you buy from has their own stock of items, sales people, order boxers, etc… so it’s all random. Stores that sale very little on 11.11 might be able to ship quick. Stores that sell a ton of stuff might take longer to ship. How many employees does the store have? If an item is not in stock or sales out, they may have to wait a bit for more to come off the assembly line. As the customer, we really have no clue what is going on over there. The store might ship it out in just days, but the China post might not register the package until weeks later.
Unless you have a middle man like Neal over there that can see the packages go out, you don’t really know what is going on.
Maybe you can ask Sofirn why it seems they took 2 weeks to ship. Maybe they will answer?
I’m not trying to start a fight or anything and I am really not defending anyone. I just think there is a lot involved with shipping from China that we as customers have little idea about.
And after reading what JasonWW wrote I’m thinking to place blame is probably short sided on our part. Whether it be me blaming AliExpress or someone else blaming a vendor.
In other words, what Jason said sums it up very nicely.
Crazy number of people living in Shenzhen, where most of our goods come from. Ridiculous mountains of packages pile up at the postal centers, especially this time of year. Glad it’s not ME having to wade through the building sized mounds of boxes and bubble packs…
After X amount of days it expires and completes the order on it’s own. Always check when the buyer protection ends. If you hadn’t received it you should have requested an extension on the protection, if ignored, open a dispute with proof of the invalid tracking
Yeh, I got a notice a delivery had been completed, when it hadn’t — a week later the package arrived.
I also found a very good deal on a flashlight on the 11/11 sale by some place called “Madeline Store”. After a month I inquired and the seller told me it had been lost in transit, please cancel. I pointed out they were still selling the same flashlight at 2x the price, so they could send me one. I got a reply saying the flashlight I ordered had failed quality control and they weren’t going to ship it, please cancel.
I’m tempted to try to be annoying. But I suspect that’s a mug’s game.
Shorter: Ali is just a sale-and-payment collector for a lot of little operators, some of them more reliable than others.
I’ve been given the “failed quality control” notice and it was due to EMS stopping batteries inside the flashlights to New Zealand. Never had an issue with China post though unless it’s batteries on their own.
That was a year ago, maybe okay now but I use “a special airline” (that’s what Sofirn call it) for bare cells as well, costs quite a bit though. I always buy in bulk as I resell online here.
I was keen on getting a few SP33’s but a couple have pointed out unusual driver behavior and short runtime on Turbo and High. Think I’ll stick with the SP36 & Q8
As seen below there’s issues with modes at room temp
Ignore my comment on poor runtime. I didn’t fully read the comment that was based off of the manual, not an actual test.
The only issue I’ve encountered with 2 out of 5 Q8’s stepping down using temperature for ramping. First it activates turbo then starts ramping up from moonlight. Annoying but can either be covered like you suggested or change to timed step down.
I’m guessing the SP36 would have this since it’s the same firmware. Any other issues?
EDIT: I’m not bothered by dark spots, donut in hotspot, glued driver. Just issues on how it operates that could effect sales.
