Lately, some things from AliExpress are taking a lot of time to arrive!
I was almost going to open a refund process with Simon from Convoy (always in communication with him of course), because the time for the products to arrive was taking longer than usual. It turns out that a week or two later the products arrived.
Also, I had another object that took more than 3 months to arrive at my home! Ordered in the beginning of September it arrived in the middle of December.
From Sofirn, I order one thing on 18th november and another friend here on BLF ordered in the same date. Mine arrived 2 weeks earlier, and still it took a month to arrive!
The end of the year is quite difficult it seems, be patient and wait some more time
Ordering from AliExpress is quite different from ordering from Amazon!! Both in shipping time and in prices, or course :person_facepalming:
Sofirn was slow when i ordered stuff from their ali xpress site this summer . With the holidays it’s going to take longer than you think it will .My impression of Sofirn is they are solid as a rock and you have no reason to worry …relax it will be a while
On topic, which is really a misnomer as stated above, I ordered a sofirn c8f on 12/16/17, through their amazon storefront. It’s coming tomorrow, via UPS. 13 business days, or 17 calendar days.
Better than banggood, dealextreme, aliexpress, kaidomain, and internationaloutdoor. Each of those others were 20-30 days in the past few months.
It’s a mixed bag especially if you do the freebie shipping option.
For example I ordered 3 nitecore tubes in November, one is here two are somewhere in between. After xmas I ordered a couple of copper A01’s and they came in yesterday. No rhyme or reason to it that I can see.
Yep, same shape as the Thorfire VG10 (my fave) and VG10S (meh…), only a nice WW.
The SF31W tubelight is sooooooooo nice, though. Nice WW but a great beam. Wider hotspot, nicely blurred, no nasty artifacts, perfect for late-night (moonlight) and even everyday use.
Think that was the one where I saw they had like 6 left, ordered 2, then said screw it I’m getting more and ordered 2 more. I just ain’t gonna get caught without one!
Ain’t the brightest light out there, <1000lm, but I still smirk when I see the nice warm light shining on whatever.
They Sofirn C8 host I ordered on 11/11 (with ePacket shipping) finally arrived in the States and should be delivered this week… Two months later. But to be fair, I think the original shipment got lost and it had to be resent.
I am learning patience. And today it has been rewarded :) Just received my DT70 and a Zanflare F1. Its 11am here so I have a fair old wait before darkness. These took a little over a month to get here from China over the Xmas period, so I am happy with that. I still have 7 items outstanding (mostly batteries) but the DT70 was the one I was waiting for. I checked this morning and as far as I could tell it was still stuck in Poland :)
Anyway this has given my confidence in GB and BG a big lift.
This Zanflare F1 is very nice, good packaging, nice tint, just a bit ringy.
So my light came in today. Key word is light, not lights. The SF01A. This light’s good and tiny. Perfect in case the lights go out but not powerful at all. The button’s got a nice solid press on it and it feels good in the hand. Well worth the little money that one was worth. Good for the use I had for it. Still waiting on the others.
