Whoah, this is quite the enticing offer! Too bad shipping would be international for me.
(And I guess I should reduce my overspending on flashlights too.)
But this is a really great deal you’re offering to the other members here!
This is a great deal, but a whole loot box is too many lights for me.
If any single SP36s or Q8s become available, I’d be very interested to get an example of one or both to play with. Either from TK, or from anyone who gets them in their boxes and wants to let one go.
I was almost one of those product-returners.
I got two Sofirn lights from Amazon.
- Unpack the first one, check it out - no light. Take it apart, put it back together - no light.
- Unpack the second - no light. Take it apart - insulator disk falls of the battery. Put it back together - LIGHT!
Take the first apart again - find insulator disk stuck perfectly to the base of the battery. Completely invisible to a casual visual inspection. Put back together without insulator - LIGHT!
Yeah - the safety insulator had stuck itself to the battery, and was a perfect fit and a good enough color match that I had no idea it was there. Entirely a NOOB issue.
I wonder how many of the returns TK has are because of reasons like this?
Probably quite a few… because most of the time I can’t find anything wrong with the items. Sometimes maybe the issue is that they didn’t realize it requires a li-ion battery, sometimes maybe they didn’t notice the sticker on the end of the cell… which is required for shipping. Or maybe people just changed their mind and marked it as “defective” so the return would be allowed.
Occasionally the items look like they’ve been heavily used for a long time, and not gently. Like, someone may have ordered a new one and returned the old one as if it was new. Rude. But I’m not sending those. Maybe later, for a lower price, if someone wants to buy a whole load of heavily used and/or broken items, but I’m not sure why anyone would want to.
Oh, and one item came with a bunch of cat hair.
BTW, about the stickers on cells… if it leaves residue behind, the residue is pretty easy to remove by tapping it a few times with the sticker. The sticky bits stick to each other a lot more than they stick to the cell, so it should come right off.
Among people who make music, it’s called GAS — Gear Acquisition Syndrome. And that’s general enough I think it might apply here too. When there are shiny new things, it’s hard not to have a bad case of gas.
You have to charge a premium for that flashlight with genuine fur finish. It’s special.
Am I assuming correctly that these are coming to USA from, like, Singapore? Just trying to picture transit time and understand why the post office tracking simply states,
*Status
Information Available Soon*
I would be interested in the “heavily used” items (the ones that still function correctly, at least) if they came with a “heavily discounted” price to match. :innocent: