Ha Ha, and it’s just long enough to hang myself with… actually if I tied both of them together, well not such a great idea I guess my neck hurts enough already …
I did really look at the shoe laces I have currently and did truly think about using these pieces of para cord, ha ha ha, heck I have no idea how they tied those lanyards up to look so nice in the review pictures and I’m not going to waste my time trying to figure it out,
I’m not even sure how to even explain all of these issues to PP when that time comes, but Alva said some things and I’m waiting to see if he comes through but the clock is about out,
Honestly I am giving Alva just about enough shoe lace to hang himself… ha ha ha… :confounded:
In all honesty I still like Haikelite a lot. They really listened to us. I really hope they can fix this mess and regain our confidence, but it’s not going to be easy…
Yes I agree wholeheartedly with you in all seriousness, and it’s very hard to be genuinely angry at Alva but sometimes people are very good at putting on that face when there’s a motive to do so and I really have a difficult time in knowing when is enough or if someone is just putting on a show for financial gain and or when it’s time to see things for what they really are, if that makes any sense.
I am hoping that everything is what it seems, sincere and apologetic and agreeable, so only time will tell in my circumstances.
I know I’ve sent him two PM’s from hell, long long long and detailed, whether or not he really read them is debatable but his conclusion about the QA problems was enough for the moment and I’ve offered to not just throw in the towel and said I’d buy again but I am also expecting the REAL lights, not these factory seconds or whatever they are, PLUS an assembled lanyard in each box with spare O rings and the FN instruction manuals, not that I really read them but they came with all the reviewers lights and I am only asking for my lights to look every bit of what the review lights looked like with lube also not the dry scratched up garbage I got for $200, call me a fool and I would probably agree but somewhere in my heart I am believing in HaikeLite and want to see them succeed for the reasons you mentioned, but I really can’t help but think that yes they did listen to everything suggestion given from us here but I really do remember thinking during the early conversations that it was like Alva was just about to agreeable and I still sort of feel that way now with defective products, whatever I mention or suggest it’s like, OK, absolutely, so we’ll see I’m sure of that and that’s about all I’m sure off besides currently having straight up junk lights, some nice anodizing over most of the light, put things like a big scratch in the 03 reflector and so many other things made for some LONG PM messages for sure.
Well, it’s not like we’re living in an era where we send money in an envelope to China to receive goods. It’s PayPal era. It’s a “pal” for several reasons… So I can only imagine Haikelite has good intentions, as any bad intentions will be punished directly…
u guys talk too much 
I just want my 10k lumen light ahhaha
still waiting grrrrr
10k lumen? Better settle for 10k lux.
I can’t believe your still waiting Nicolicous and I’m assuming your waiting for the MT03?
That waiting to me is actually worse than having them and seeing or hearing here about all the problems than not having them and hearing of others problems. No win…
Maybe you’ll get a nicely tied up lanyard and not a shoe lace?
I’m still waiting on mine as well. Tracking shows it as departed for Chicago Dec 8th and it hasn’t changed since.
Still waiting for mine as well, very frustrating
techieman33 do you realize that it is only 413 miles to Kansas City from Chicago? I Googled that for you… HOLY CRAP it has to be lost for real… You should contact DHL if that’s how it’s traveling.
I would be in flames by now…
And Australia to China is (as the crow flies”), is about 5,545 miles or 11 hrs fly time, or if by row boat well that could take awhile, but Chicago to Kansas should be the same day, 7 hrs drive time, that is insane.
If you’re expecting a 10k lumen light, you’ll be waiting forever, as the MT03 is around half that at best! I’m happy with the build quality and everything else about this light (I can even deal with the two middle modes being virtually identical), but I’m not thrilled with the overall output being half of what was originally claimed.
If you’re expecting a 10k lumen light, you’ll be waiting forever, as the MT03 is around half that at best! I’m happy with the build quality and everything else about this light (I can even deal with the two middle modes being virtually identical), but I’m not thrilled with the overall output being half of what was originally claimed.
Does that mean we got cheated? almost all of the feedback from those who received the light seems to have problem, feels like they are shipping factory rejected goods to GB buyers. Mine finally reached but i miss the delivery men, gonna collect the light tomorrow.
Edited: Does all 4 of the batteries make full contact? if i recall correctly one of the bro here mentioned that the batteries didn’t make full contact, hence getting the 5k lumens. Seems like the 5k lumen we are getting on turbo is after the step down from the original 8k lumens after turning it on for awhile. Is it related?
Has this ever happened with a groupbuy; any reported case known?
It departed FOR Chicago, it hasn’t been scanned anywhere since it left China. I took the free shipping option so it got sent via China post to the US and then it gets transferred to the USPS after it gets through customs. I figured an extra week or two of waiting wouldn’t be a big deal, and I’ve had problems with DHL in the past. Mostly that it’s a pain the ass to actually get the package since it has to be signed for.
you mean other than the reduced output which defer from the reviews for MT03? i’m not so sure till i receive mine, than again i do not have a proper tool to test so i can only compare with my L6 and guestimate
I didn’t order a haikelite because I decided for the L6 instead, but have been following this thread very closely… I’m shocked that haikelite hasn’t posted anything in more than two weeks, despite the fact that they have been constantly online almost on a daily basis.
I wonder if they have been addressing your issues via private messages?
No I mean products with known flaws sold for groupbuys.
Cheated? Well that will remain to be seen I guess as and that is a sort of individual thing I think, what were your expectations and what did you base your expectations on?
For me I’ve been judging my lights by the same means that convinced me to buy them in the first place, and it’s been by looking at what I saw and read in the reviews, the quality of the product I saw in those reviews and then what arrived at my house in those same boxes, and that is about where everything else changed as far as what I expected and what I got.
But then don’t forget that nice note that was sent to all of us in this GB that said something like, they are taking a loss selling these lights for the price they did and the only reason they were doing this for “US” is because they want more “Nice people” to know of HaikeLite, just re-read the GB message, ya I guess cheated is a good way to put it but more liked conned.
Hopefully you get a really good light or lights, I don’t think everyone is disappointed, but I obviously am very upset and do feel taken advantage of to put it nicely, and I do feel like I was sold lights that were definitely QA’d and failed miserably, so instead of sending them to BG or GB and taking a chance selling them there, they sold them to me.
I’m not speaking for the entire group, some folks are happy with their lights, I think, so now I have basically expensive hosts that I will have to rebuild.
Do the batteries make contact, no and yes, depends, I removed all those stupid black things around the positive connections and then I got perfect connections and realized also that I never had to buy the batteries they suggested, go back a few pages or so or last page and I posted some pictures of those rings that did nothing really but minimize the flat tops you can use as long as they were 10A cells.
I hate PayPal disputes and just wish I could have gotten what I saw in the reviews, so Alca asked me to give him a few days and that was yesterday so I’ll give him to the 1st and if nothing fixes these issues with my lights then I guess it’s on, I just hate disputes of any sort.
Boy, I'm getting 5,300 lumens, 140 kcd on my MT07 with a resistor mod on SANYO GA's. I would strongly recommend anyone who gets either one of these lights to remove the plastic guards around the battery + contact, on both sides, so total of 4. I also bypassed the springs. I've had even GA cells not make good contact with those plastic pieces there.
