I don’t do pre-orders, ever. The only reason I placed this order was because I thought they were available already. I’ll give it another week and then cancel and move on.
I have held of buying a couple of other lights because they were too close in specs to this one.
I won’t do any more business with Banggood, China warehouse. I’ll continue to buy from the USA warehouse which I have done without problems.
Now to continue Hurricane clean up.
Noticed this night that http://dpdgroup.hk where I could find my parcels tracking has moved to a “domain parking service”. I’m curious what’s going on with DPD. Status of my parcels is “Waiting to fly away” for several days now.
I know it's confusing as heck, but it should ship by the end of this month, maybe sooner - think the 10-10 date is just to cover a worse case, or CYA thing, or didn't get updated.
At 1416 orders place now, but could be a mix now of BG non BLF pre-orders, but I'd think those #'s are small.
With some fiddling, like adding a compression strap to hold the light firmly down on the tripod-mount base.
I agree the threaded hole and threaded bolt would be the weak spot there.
And I’d test it with the nut light first — less drama if it broke and went flying.
> shipping
Knowing who’s doing the shipping matters to me.
Shipping performance is part of how I evaluate a company, their track record includes whether they screw up shipping things.
Pre-ordered mine just now. Expected Shipping Date:2017-10-14, although I know this is only ballpark estimate. I forgot the add insurance to the order, so hoping for the best!
Do not sign up for change of status notifications - only the delivery notification. I have delivery notifications via SMS Text and I literally get the text within seconds of the mail person scanning it. I get the text, look out my window and the delivery person is right there.
Just a reminder that the first week of October is a big holiday week in China (National Golden Day Week). They may be trying to get orders out the door before everybody goes on holiday.
I thought your post was funny.
And I don’t mind a few curse words but still it is so easy to replace them, get the message across in a way it won’t offend
F××k -> flip
F××king -> flipping
D**m -> dang
Da**it -> dang it
H€££ -> heck
When I type such things itbto empathize things not to use rude words.