Has Registered mail been shipped out so far ?
If I had known DHL is their first priority for shipment regardless of region , I would have chosen DHL over Registered mail at the beginning.
Everyday reading the post of people got their light and some even got 2 lights .
What a shame, I am disappoint that they don’t treat the first 555 customers who paid deposit as first priority.
Is there a reason the reflector has to be made from aluminum? If the surface has a reflective coating put on it then the underlining material shouldn't matter as long as it had the right requirements for things like durability and thermal stability. What I am thinking about are polymers and resins. They are relatively easy to machine or mold and can produce a very smooth finish ready for the final coating. Plus, they are not usually an expensive material.
I honestly have no idea, but I would think that if there was a cheaper or more effective material to use, it would be used.
this is not the teams first rodeo and especially with lumintop producing these lights, you can be pretty sure they made the right choice.
I am not doubting or questioning them in the least. Sorry if it sounded that way. I just would like to know why it is always aluminum. What I put out there was so someone would know what I was comparing it to. It was just something I was wondering about and this is the place that has answers.
I think you will have to be content with being in the first 850 to receive their light as well as getting it $40 cheaper than anyone else on the group buy list.
I would imagine if cost wasn’t an issue they could be made out of silver. Nothing shines like polished silver. Of course over time the silver would start tarnishing.Sigh
Molds are extremely expensive to make and would have taken far longer to come to market. While the material it’s made out of is inexpensive and the polymer in the mold is also inexpensive, the mold itself needs to be paid for. The lights would have cost far more if the reflectors had been molded. It’s just economics. It woudn’t have saved money. Lumintop did it correctly IMO.
Well said Jason…… we got a heck of a deal on this Bad Boy!!
It is an amazing light!! Paying a measly $15 dollar ‘deposite’ for the privileged of getting one at the ‘first 555’ price was well worth it!!!
We were not paying a deposite for ‘preferred shipping order’.
We were paying a deposite for ‘preferred price’. :+1:
I do not agree. Yes we will be happy with this light and that it gets delivered at all, and it is unjust to question that! But the remark was not about that, it was about the choice we had in shipping option without knowing that one of the two options would leave China many weeks after the other. It makes sense to be very disappointed about it. Of course the team is not to blame, but it would have made sense if someone in China had done some thinking about it.
I guess I read it wrong then, I thought we were talking about the disappointment someone was feeling because the first 555 were not treated as “first priority”.
Of course all will be happy when their light gets delivered…. that seems a nobrainer. :+1:
Yeah… it would have been nice to know in advance if one shipping option was indeed going to have preference over another. Maybe that info was not avaiable or decided on at the time orders were taken however.
Or maybe, since Registered Mail is shipping in two boxes; there has been a slight delay in sourcing those boxes.
Who knows…… all speculation on our end anyway.
Main thing is the lights are being made & shipped as fast as LT can crank them out & maintain that EXCELLENT QUALITY we are seeing in the GT.