Thanks for the info, seems like there’s multiple editions that Gearbest sells. It would be great if Simon could chime in and clarify, as well as a Gearbest rep.
There seems to be a number of dealers under the Aliexpress umbrella selling Convoy. I wonder if anyone has any experience buying from these dealers.
eg http://www.aliexpress.com/store/1750069 Burnfire Outdoor seems to be almost identical to http://www.aliexpress.com/store/330416 Shenzhen Convoy Electronics Co., Ltd.
but selling only a few Convoys & nothing else
I have the original and it is good, but after seeing these recent developments would be scared to order another.
It ‘seems’ that “they” have ran out of 4C… ‘So, why not just send them whatever we have, like 1A’? - HUGE difference to us, and just another sale to “them”. - 4C is not ‘better’ or ‘worse’ than 1A, as it all depends on what You want…. Thing is, they need to send us what is advertised! - Not some Cheap A$$ed Clone.
I’m very happy with mine, but I’m really pissed with what they sent some of you guys.
I’m starting to think that Convoy is going to be the next UltraFire. Everybody and their brother will be making their own copy of them with varying quality and hollow pills. :_(
Next thing you know, there will be 6000mah Convoy 18650 batteries.
Mine appears to be genuine with brass parts (ordered on 06 May) and I’m very happy with it.
I see GB has promotion again but I’ll wait until other colors are available and quality is confirmed (if that’s possible).
One of my small “XPE” zoomie from the same order arrived and its definitely not XPE. For that small and cheap light I don’t worry too much about quality but not for Convoy. I always expect good quality from Convoy.