Right. And if IRRC it is far from ālast minuteā.
It has been known that some countries would require a bit of additional shipping cost for quite some time.
If people do not keep upā¦. maybe they get surprised.
It is very common to have different shipping costs depending on shipping destination. Islands or island-like places, some Scandinavian countries, both time- and distance-related pricing, and more exceptions like shipping to Hawaii. I have shipped from various places and this was never different.
If it is the actual cost, 3 dollars is really not high IMO for tracked shipping from Asia. Even tiny gearbest items are now 1.50 or more dollars in shipping. Batteries are like 4-7 dollars per shipment.
It is the new reality for online shopping.
Iāve read pretty much every thread in this post and i didnāt know about the fee so itās not a question of keeping up, and i donāt see how you can judge why someone has missed information in a thread containing over 9000 posts, many of which are not relevant. Not everyone has the luxury of the time needed to read every post in a thread this size, and if you think they should then surely you have a responsibility not to force them to read through lengthy posts about materials youāve dreamt the FW3A is made out of.
Off-topic is an inherent part of this forum, and one that i like, but it can take the focus away from the relevant.
Being free to ask questions and ask for help is also an inherent part of this forum which makes this a much friendlier and less intimidating place than most, and i donāt see why that should be discouraged without good reason.
If Zak hadnāt have asked i would have asked, but your attitude would make me think twice about asking.
The dogfarts I have from Arrow are quite ok, albeit a bit above BBL. They do look much better than SST20s with similar duv though. Not absolutely necessary to filter out the green.
Thanks maukka. I regret not buying some when they were super cheap. Iāve been holding out for them to be discounted again but may take the plunge once my FW3A arrives (unless it becomes a factory option by then!)
As far as I am concerned Marc Eā¦. āyouā read a heck of a lot into a sentence that contained the words āIf & maybeā. :person_facepalming:
And letās not forget āif IRCā at the beginning.
Ah, didnāt know if those people also were doing something else I didnāt know about.
Thank you, and I got a PM last night and ordered the 7A just now. Things like the LH interest me, but I like them better in Zebralights that can get longer runtime instead of more heat out of low Vf, so XPL HI is just great, 70 CRI or no. Love <4000K lights. Have a WW SST Emisar but too lazy to put together the kit to reflash it, so thisāll be my first light with the ārealā firmware.
IDK about the tube-to-body anodize, but maybe they made it extra thick. If the tube is aluminum rather than something harder, it shouldnāt scratch the insulation easilyā¦ and I do have a bit of Kapton tape.
Saw some earlier post say itās not possible to power the driver without a 3rd wire. Maybe true for this driver, but Folomovās somewhat problematic 18650S (?) has a tailcap driver that runs in series with the LED. Thermal regulation, other than a timer, is of course impossible and that model has, from what I hear, damaged a few LEDs. Turbo should have been a lower current I guess.
I donāt see how. The manufacturer will happily sell an extra unit. The coupon code isnāt personalized. I think the interest list was used mainly to estimate demand, and allow a line/queue to form.
That is interesting the coupon code isnāt personalized. You are right, checking the demand. I didnāt get one this go around. Keeping an eye on future deals.
I see some folks have already received shipping notices for their lights. I wonder how many units are available to be processed out before the May 1st holiday or whatever it is that will delay further processing until May 8th.
I do not know what means IRRC but in the very first post its written:
āPricing
Target $30 including shipping, manufacturer can decide own pricing afterwards.
Maybe $36 if XP-L HI emitters are used.
Not fixed yet!ā
I do not want to make big deal for $3 just noticed the difference.
I wish Neal the best and to enjoy for that extra profit.
I donāt understand why āyouā is in quotes, but i read the sentence that contained the words āIf & maybeā as the final part of your response to the comments you quoted, specifically ifratosās āNealās last minute $3 fee.ā which the rest of your answer relates to, and took it to mean that: If people (like ifratos) do not keep upā¦. maybe they get surprised (as ifratosās description suggests he was).
What did i get wrong?
I didnāt forget, i assumed thatās what you meant by āif IRRCā and took the whole sentence as factual to the best of your knowledge, and a helpful answer. What did i get wrong?
āIRRCā should be āIIRCā which means āIf I Remember Correctlyā¦ā.
The prices you quote are target process, it means that the project was developed to try and be sold for that price, but it wasnāt a guaranteed price. AT the start of the project no-one knew how much it would actually cost to make the loght and therefore it was impossible to know how much the light would be sold for, $30 and $36 were a guess. A very educated guess but still a guess.
The final price was set depending on how much it costs to actually produce the light, and is close to the original price. I donāt know the details of where the money goes but i havenāt assumed it was Neal just adding money on.