The opening in this collar is small so light from the edges of the large 70.2 die may not fill out the complete lens, a sort of vignetting, effectively reducing the die size and output. Throw may not be affected.
Marinebeam replied and said the reason why the coupon did not work was because I had free shipping because my order exceeded $100. You can either get 10% off or Free Shipping. If that’s the case, there’s really no incentive to purchase more than $100.
“Our customer service got a message today about some problems with the free shipping on orders over $100. This is my fault. When I set up the group discount code, I didn’t realize that it automatically disabled the free shipping. This is because the web platform can’t support two discount coupons or promotions on the same order (makes sense actually). I can’t change it now, or everyone will really be confused when they try to use a discount code that won’t work, but any US customers that got stiffed on the shipping can contact customer service by email at info@marinebeam.com, and we will rebate them the $6.95 for US shipping. Might take a day or two to process.
For anyone who is still considering ordering, just put a note in the comment section to refund the shipping amount. US customers by USPS only.
Sorry for the confusion.”
Im confused with what they are saying. I interpret that email to say they intended to allow both free shipping and 10% 00coupon to be applied on orders over $100.
However the email response I got today said they can only refund me the difference between the 10% coupon and free shipping because only one discount can be applied. They refunded me that difference so I still have to pay shipping.
It sounds like you spoke to someone that did not know what was going on and Enderman spoke to the guy in charge. I would take endermans response over the one you got.
They sent me another email:
“To correct my previous statement - the coupon code was set up to exclude free shipping offers but we have changed it to apply both. You’ll see a refund for $6.95 to your purchase method as well.”
I didn’t read it that way. I think they were saying they would support efforts to build such a beast so you didn’t need to have a wavien collar made by an “outlaw” group.
Even after arranging a legitimate buy of collars they chose to use the term. I think I know what was meant by it. Lumping our own purpose built and unique lights into their counterfeit warning is pretty low. If you want to remind us of the terms of the purchase and offer to collaborate on a licensed light you definitely do not have to word it like that.
No he specifically said it is fine for you to build you own unique lights or use the collars for research.
He was even aware of what the GT is and how much work BLF put into it, so clearly he cares about the flashlight community.
The discussion I had with him was about mass production retail lights like the GT.
Getting a chinese manufacturer to make a flashlight with a collar is definitely possible, as you may have seen from my previous thread about making my own collars using cheap chinese spherical mirrors, but selling lights that use it would be against the law because Meadowstar is regulating the patent.
Don’t be one of those people that gets offended for literally no reason.
Everyone is aware of how easy it is to get some chinese manufacturers to make fake products and infringe on IP.