Then we should see some final pictures of the lamp!? Has Simon some ideas about the final price? Will he have an early adopters, group buy, BLF special offer for us?
I would like to order one lamp!
Unfortunately I can not answer these questions.
I also just waiting for release of the product. I just asked a question about the timing of realization of the product.
Maybe J-Dub74 can able to answer these questions.
JDub has been in nearly constant contact with Simon throughout this development process and updates us regularly here in these threads of his. I don’t understand why anyone wanting to know something wouldn’t contact JDub directly instead of adding confusing by getting in touch with Simon on their own. This is what creates the chaos, too many Chiefs, not enough Indians.
I don’t answer the phone when I’m in the shop, really feel like locking the doors as well! Too many times I’ve seen guys trying to work, finishing up a project, only to have to deal with that phone and people walking in and be unable to get any work done. Simon is busy, JDub is our contact, when there is something to be known, JDub will tell us here. Seems simple enough, right?
I know, I know, people are eager and anticipating this arrival. But for any one individual that want’s to take it in his/her own hands and contact Simon directly, there are a dozen more (dozens?) doing the same! Think about it, do you want Simon working on these lights for us, or answering emails?
I just want know more information. I don’t have right write to Simon directly on ali (so in this topic is no update for week)?
Do You think if Simon will not be distracted by correspondence, the supplier will deliver drivers faster?
Sure, you have the right ability to muck up things all you want. (Don’t know that it’s a right….) But SHOULD you? You also have the right to stand patiently in line with the rest of us. Call Fenix, Olight, Nitecore, bother them some, see if it speeds up anything.
This is how delays happen, we’ve seen it all so many times before. We have a contact here through Jared with direct communication to Simon, why is that not good enough?
Common sense has become uncommon. And with that, I’ll defer to Forrest Gump “That’s all I’ve got to say about That!”
Of course you have the right but Dale made a good point. Simon has a severe time shortage and it’s not easy for him to fit emails into his day. Most of his emails to me are sent from his home on his own time in the evenings. I keep Simon quite busy just with my own emails which are almost all on behalf of BLF. I have 15 emails from Simon in the last three days. They do not include updated information on the L6. What has already been posted is about it. I can tell you that the side switch issue has been resolved. Now we’re just waiting on the driver. The original driver wasn’t hitting quite as hard as we wanted so Simon asked them to bump it up. It shouldn’t be too long but I don’t have an exact date. I will post here as soon as I receive any real news about the L6.
I’m sorry.
But i’m waiting too long (that’s only reason) - IMHO.
If product until now is not near to release, why this topic was created in december 2015?
“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” - Joyce Meyer
“The customer is always right” - Marshall Field
“Pecunia non olet” - emperor Vespasian
these guys know what they are doing so please dont mess this up for all of us.
I am very much looking forward to this L6
What about you go out to wait with the others ? What about not being so childish an complain about a product not coming as fast as you want to ?
Are you, by chance, one of these iCrap fanboy who can’t wait for a product release like anyone ?
You don’t seem to be here for long, but we have a tradition of implying customers for the beginning of the development to the release of the final product…that implies to be patient, but in the other hand you have the possibility of giving your opinion about features !
Try to find such a niche market where customers have the hability to change products like we do here !
I don’t need to be first who get this light.
I just want to know concrete information about release and features.
For this, I deserve your snub?
Good things come to those who wait. -somebody, probably
Just relax. 5 months for a flashlight to be created from the ground up is very little time considering everything involved in the process.
As someone who has worked in some kind of customer-facing/customer-service position my entire (short) professional life, I can emphatically say Marshall Field was wrong.
The customer is usually only “right” if you are trying to make a quick sale and get rid of them with a smile on their face. If you are actually trying to do what’s best for the customer and solve whatever problem brought them to you, it involves asking more questions and usually re-directing expectations.
- end rant -
Now this is a GOOD quote!
I will keep it in my mind during the Q8 project, that is just starting and well I would like to receive updates every hour 
Thanks
Thanks. It’s not always easy to live by your own advice of course. I’m as anxious as anyone to know everything about the L6 and to have one in my hands but hounding Simon (or me for that matter) isn’t going to make it happen any faster. If it’s a question that hasn’t been asked before then by all means ask me but if I’ve said that I don’t have the answer you can safely assume that #1, I have passed the question along to Simon and #2, the answer will be posted when I do have it.
For the record to all I don’t support anyone insulting each other in all this. Obviously we have a lot of passionate people here. If you’re not passionate about flashlights then you’re probably not reading this. Passionate people have strong feelings and strong opinions. I certainly do. Still, we all need to play nice if this is going to remain fun.
I really don’t understand what You mean.
Just 1-5 questions in Month. So many time You need for simple answer? (even something like “don’t know”, “no information”).
May be i’m so stupid. Please try to explain it to me.
When hunting with dogs (hounds) the dogs stay in hot pursuit of the game until it can finally run no longer. The game in question usually takes to a tree or any other convenient location that keeps it out of reach of the frenzied hounds. These hounds will bay the animal, sounding off to their master so they can be found.
Hounding someone is a constant nagging, like the dogs on the animals trail. Or kids in the back seat on vacation travels “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How much longer? I’m so BORED! I gotta pee! Are we there yet?”
Considering that you are only one person it may sound frivolous, but there are many who are anxious, like the pack of hounds hot on the scent of much anticipated “game”. Dozens of eager people “hound” a guy to death with a zillion questions instead of merely waiting for the answers. This consumes time, causes confusion and frustration and inevitably costs far more time than should be expended.
Edit: Worth noting is that virtually no single manufacturer is involved, but each has it’s own queue such as the maker of reflectors, AR coatings on lenses, driver builders, and the final work has to wait on all these outside sources before completion can be managed. Each phase falls into a timing matter, many not even quoted to the original like Simon… he may not have a “concrete” idea on when the drivers will be done, when the lenses will be ready, and so on. So these answers are not possible. A great many people WILL NOT EVER say “I don’t know” as it makes them look bad for lack of information.
But your anger directed solely on me. I don’t understand again. If many people annoying for supplier day after day, thousands of questions. Why is my fault (with my only one question in april) is biggest?
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I will never understand this life credo. I always try to talk to all clearly - as it is. This is a pledge of confidence for the any people. Probably we have too large differences in mentality.
Thanks Mukcep.
The update is appreciated as I was wondering what was happening.