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$$ed Clone.
I’m very happy with mine, but I’m really pissed with what they sent some of you guys.
I’m starting to think that Convoy is going to be the next UltraFire. Everybody and their brother will be making their own copy of them with varying quality and hollow pills. :_(
Next thing you know, there will be 6000mah Convoy 18650 batteries.
Mine appears to be genuine with brass parts (ordered on 06 May) and I’m very happy with it.
I see GB has promotion again but I’ll wait until other colors are available and quality is confirmed (if that’s possible).
One of my small “XPE” zoomie from the same order arrived and its definitely not XPE. For that small and cheap light I don’t worry too much about quality but not for Convoy. I always expect good quality from Convoy.
+1 Convoy make good quality products and they have fair prices. They are semi-active on this forum, and they even made the Meteor just for us! Ok, that last part might be a stretch. But they have their own store, and I think they are worth supporting directly.
I have and still buy from the direct Convoy store :cash: I figured everyone was getting good deal, so I decided to jump on the bandwagon (albeit a little late, ordered May 29). I surely didn't expect to get some cut down version, but at the same time I'm not all too surprised that I did.
I recently purchased 4 red Convoys. 2 were the GearBest $12.99 and 2 were Simon's host. They all were identical...with copper pills. Simon has been warning about counterfeit Convoy and it sounds like someone shipped some (or at least one) to Gearbest. I guess we all know to look for aluminum pills to see of they are fakes.
As for getting Simon to convince Convoy about different colors....he IS Convoy and the only thing that holds him back is $$$. To give us the prices we expect his commitment is huge. Now if someone wanted to set up a poll to know what color and asked him to do a custom run for several hundred (lights and/or hosts) I am sure he would look into it for us. He is easily accessible if someone wants to ask him.
I’m hoping… thinking, this is a good one. Ordered from GearBest, 12.99 on 21 May, arrived today (28th June) to the UAE. Here’s some piccies. It works great and seems exactly the same as one I have had for a few months (but paid more for with different tail switch)
I would say:“Yes”. It’s identical to the one I bought from Gearbest. The 105D driver is directly soldered to the pill because there is not enough room for a retainer ring.