HaikeLite MT03 & MT07 Group-buy Closed

u guys talk too much :stuck_out_tongue:

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 :stuck_out_tongue:

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.

I actually mean this GB and not other, why would you ask that?

Heck ya, the most famous one to my recollection was the Cometa light, makes me sick to think of that light and I bought two of those things also, that one was bad, far worse than this could ever get.
Will34 was smart, the L6 is proven and solid, this was basically buying blind and by reviews from respected members but I can guarantee you the lights they reviewed weren’t just pulled off the shelf.

Edit: Not sure if I understood the “known flaws” question completely, the Cometa light was more of a con job with flaws, huge flaws and a lot of lies to go with it.
I don’t really know of a deliberate act of selling lights in a GB that was known by the company as being like their factory seconds or not good enough to sell any other way than a tricky group buy, that is something only the company would probably know, not us, but just looking at the lights I got and private conversations with Alva and some minimal admissions about QA issues is all I have to form my opinions, and they are only my opinions and not based on anything else, there has been no admission of deliberately selling bad lights here in this GB so I hope that is clear, just really sloppy work if anything and absolutely no QA.

I feel you, and that is my intention. I’m basing it on the reviewer’s review also since Alva base this GB on the reviewer’s review.

Well with groupon discounts, it turned out that some restaurants serve different quality of meat/fish depending on whether people pay full price or not. So I wonder if something similar can happen with discounts/groupbuys regarding flashlights, not necessarily with Haikelite.