It seems that these days many of us on this forum are having disappointing experiences with one online seller or another. So I think it is important to also recognise the positive experiences that we have from time to time.
This leads me on to Hank at Intl-Outdoor store. I have placed about 30 orders with his business now and he has been extremely helpful the whole time. He usually replies to my emails within 10-30 minutes, he has allowed me to make special orders with C8s, dropins with different drivers to the normal ones etc. I know that their shipping times aren’t always the quickest but any time something has taken a while to arrive Hank has actually recommended that I file a PP dispute to protect myself which has always been closed as soon as the items arrive. But recently one experience topped them all. I had ordered and paid for a replacement TN31 MCPCB with XM-L2 direct from Thrunite for my Trustfire X9 build. Over a week after I had paid them they told me they had run out of the 1A tint they told me they had in stock and they were going to refund my money. I contacted Hank to see if he could get a hold of any 32mm Copper MCPCBs to which he promptly replied that he couldn’t. I explained what I was wanting to do and he offered for me to get Thrunite to post the blank MCPCBs directly to him, he would flow the XM-L2 U2 1A onto the boards and then send them on to me. So he sent me his postal address and I have organised for Thrunite to send the blank boards straight to him!
This might seem like a small thing, but except for Mountain Electronics or Illum I can’t think of any other online sellers I have used who would offer to do this for me.
Anyway, that’s all I had to say, just wanted to come by and give IOS a plug as I believe that the good sellers out there should be known.
If you have had any really good experiences with some online sellers feel free to post your experience here.