Something is not right with banggood and shipping times..

[Spartan]

I don’t agree at all that just because it’s cheaper, then poor service should be expected.

Case in point….Sonfirn.

Their light in Amazon.ca was more then the US, but Sonfirmn would discount it to match. Great.

Then the issue of shipping from China and the lottery of getting it through customs. Again, Sofirn admit it was a problem.

Then she gave me a discount to buy it from Amazon.com. I never used it, but the entire exchange left me with a great impression of their company.

What is common in all of these? COMMUNICATIONS. No one can accuse Sofirn of being a high profit company nor did they deny any issues about shipping. In every step, they tried and communicated possible solutions. At no time was there any exchange with an anterior intent.

So why is it that hard for a company to say……We are just back from vacation and it will take a while for the supply chain to catch up, please be patient. At this point, it could be 2 months to receive your product.

I wrote that in 15 seconds. Is anybody going to tell me that a honest company can’t do the same?

Last and not least….

In my 40 plus years in manufacturing……quality, service and good pricing are not competitors. What you need is honesty and communications. If a customer knows what to expect, if the supplier/manufacturer is doing what they said they will, then there is very little that goes wrong.

But then….there is greed……

[teacher]

BREAKING NEWS…………BREAKING NEWS…………BREAKING NEWS
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WKRAP - High atop K2 / 4 March 2019
by Cemore Butts

Container Ship Grounded…. Literally!!

A container ship filled with long awaited assorted orders from China, shipped after CNY; has run into problems in some disclosed location. See picture below for details. A picture is worth a thousand words you know….
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Maybe…. this is the problem…… . .

[klrman]

@teacher

@cheapskate noun@ cheap·skate | \ ˈchēp-ˌskāt \ Definition of cheapskate : a miserly or stingy person especially : one who tries to avoid paying a fair share of costs or expenses . … hmmm…

There could possibly be brief moments in time where I would qualify to be that

[teacher]

@klrman

@teacher

cheapskate noun cheap·skate | \ ˈchēp-ˌskāt \ Definition of cheapskate : a miserly or stingy person especially : one who tries to avoid paying a fair share of costs or expenses . … hmmm….

There could possibly be brief moments in time where I would qualify to be that 

Tell me about it…
I always try to pay my fair share if doing something with a group of my friends or people.

BUT …… the “brief momemts” for me being miserly or stingy are few & far between lately. :person_facepalming:

I have had to downgrade from canned Black Beans to Ramen Noodles…. . :person_facepalming:
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[klrman]

@teacher

Tell me about it… I always try to pay my fair share if doing something with a group of my friends or people. BUT … the “brief momemts” for me being miserly or stingy (buying lights & knives for myself) are few & far between lately. :person_facepalming: I have had to downgrade from canned Black Beans to Ramen Noodles… . :person_facepalming: .

quite the downgrade from beans to noodles but I can understand it! A can of black beans up here cost $0.97 whereas Ramen Noodles about $0.20 a pop, so I see the logic in it all

[teacher]

@klrman

@teacher

Tell me about it… I always try to pay my fair share if doing something with a group of my friends or people. BUT …… the “brief momemts” for me being miserly or stingy are few & far between lately. :person_facepalming: I have had to downgrade from canned Black Beans to Ramen Noodles…. . :person_facepalming: .

quite the downgrade from beans to noodles but I can understand it! A can of black beans up here cost  $0.97 whereas Ramen Noodles about $0.20 a pop, so I see the logic in it all

Yep… “quite the downgrade” for sure. :person_facepalming: Black Beans here are 54 cents a can, IIRC. Ramen Noodles are 15 cents…. how far I have fallen. :person_facepalming:
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[BlueSwordM]

See, that’s where you can the knowledge you’ve acquired on BLF.

1. Try buying canned beans during specials. The lowest price I’ve found in Canada is 0,79$CA.

2. Do not buy canned beans. Buy a bag of canned beans instead, and prep it in water. The price/kg of dry beans is much lower than canned beans, so that is another thing that can be done.

3. Combine beans with tofu, and some mackerel/sardines, and veggies. If you have good cooking skills, you can prepare something worthy of a vegetarian god for a low price.

[klrman]

@teacher

@klrman

quite the downgrade from beans to noodles but I can understand it! A can of black beans up here cost $0.97 whereas Ramen Noodles about $0.20 a pop, so I see the logic in it all

Yep… “quite the downgrade” for sure. :person_facepalming: Black Beans here (WalMart Great Value brand) are 54 cents a can, IIRC. Ramen Noodles are 15 cents… how far I have fallen. :person_facepalming: .

We should all gang up on BLF for pretending to be a "budget" light forum whilst emptying our wallets

[klrman]

@BlueSwordM

See, that’s where you can the knowledge you’ve acquired on BLF. 1. Try buying canned beans during specials. The lowest price I’ve found in Canada is 0,79$CA. 2. Do not buy canned beans. Buy a bag of canned beans instead, and prep it in water. The price/kg of dry beans is much lower than canned beans, so that is another thing that can be done. 3. Combine beans with tofu, and some mackerel/sardines, and veggies. If you have good cooking skills, you can prepare something worthy of a vegetarian god for a low price.

Beans and veggies are my revenge against inflation. Food prices could skyrocket and my diet would still cost next to nothing weekly.

[toddcshoe]

@klrman

Beans and veggies are my revenge against inflation. Food prices could skyrocket and my diet would still cost next to nothing weekly.

At least until everyone else is eating them too. Then your cheap beans are going to skyrocket as well. Unless you grow your own, at which time you will die in the winter.

[teacher]

/\…… Or…. grow enough & can them to get through the winter.
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[Lightbringer]

That’s the spirit…

[mmalive]

Guys, DO NOT anything you eat from sold from Value Brand. Most if not all sourced from China imported products. You guys will encounter problems.

[teacher]

@BlueSwordM

See, that’s where you can the knowledge you’ve acquired on BLF.

1. Try buying canned beans during specials. The lowest price I’ve found in Canada is 0,79$CA.

2. Do not buy canned beans. Buy a bag of canned beans instead, and prep it in water. The price/kg of dry beans is much lower than canned beans, so that is another thing that can be done.

3. Combine beans with tofu, and some mackerel/sardines, and veggies. If you have good cooking skills, you can prepare something worthy of a vegetarian god for a low price.

Good suggestions BSM… I may not starve after all if I get real creative. :+1:
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[Lightbringer]

@mmalive

Guys, DO NOT anything you eat from sold from Value Brand. Most if not all sourced from China imported products. You guys will encounter problems.

Yeah, a 16oz can labelled “100lbs”…

[Johm]

@mmalive

Guys, DO NOT anything you eat from sold from Value Brand. Most if not all sourced from China imported products. You guys will encounter problems.

Yes, but without the waiting…

[teacher]

@mmalive

Guys, DO NOT anything you eat from sold from Value Brand. Most if not all sourced from China imported products. You guys will encounter problems.

“Value Brand”… is that the ‘brand name’ or the name of a Supermarket chain?? I’m not famaliar with it.
But thanks for the tip…… :+1:

[toddcshoe]

@mmalive

Guys, DO NOT anything you eat from sold from Value Brand. Most if not all sourced from China imported products. You guys will encounter problems.

I will eat anything. At this point in my life I need a little excitement. If it kills me, then so be it. I will cook my Chinese Value Brand with my Chinese flashlight and then type on my Chinese keyboard that I got a case of the runs. Then I will make an appointment with my Chinese doctor who will prescribe for me a diet high in MSG and questionable meat products. Repeat.

[tekwyzrd]

Back on-topic. Still waiting for the replacement emitter for the L6 I ordered from banggood to ship. It’s bad enough to receive a defective item and worse to jump through hoops to get them to agree to remedy, but to wait even longer while ‘customer service’ responds with empty promises… I’m done being ‘reasonable’. I’ll be filing a paypal complaint in the morning.

[oweban]

Meanwhile - orders got split out (oddly) while things were out of stock. Latest split was Convoy S2+ Nichia UV, and Astrolux A01. Sometime in there, the Convoy was in stock, but A01 still waiting.

A01 got cancelled this morning so I’ve sent an email asking when refund will be processed, but in the meantime, the S2+ is out of stock again! So hopefully they put one aside while it was in stock (I’ll believe it when I see it), or that’ll get cancelled on me too.

Note to self, don’t order more than one item at a time.