Yes, they make up for the delay in getting the packages out the door with super fast shipping to your door.
Although in some cases this means higher fees. In which case buying from someone like Neal might be your better bet as he can ship with a slower carrier that might have a chance of slipping through customs. Although with a 6lb flashlight, that is not very likely no matter how it ships if someone actually looks at it during the customs inspection.
None of the conversion kits made it out before the Holiday in china. They should hopefully make it out next week if all goes well, although I would not be surprised if it was the week after that.
BTW, in case you purchased the 30Q batteries with your light, there is a sticker on negative/bottom end of each cell the needs to be peeled off before use.
I didn’t know about the sticker and I thought there was something wrong with my light for well over 2mins…….very stressful 2 minutes
That is part of the benefit of this group buy, you get the express shipping as the standard shipping method to most areas. Some of the more remote or more strict customs countries have to be shipped by other means though.
I have damage to the top edge at about 12:00 & 10:00. There is thread damage at about 8:00. (The white at 4:00 is just a piece of papertowel.)
If you look back at the 2nd and 3rd pictures above, now that you know to look for it, you can see some of this before it was taken out of the box.
Threads 1, 2 & 3 (from the top) have been damaged and (harder to see) thread 2 has a sharp point sticking up.
I don’t want to use this tube for fear of scratching the threads inside the head. (The head is far more expensive than a tube.) Fortunately I have a tube from the original BLF GT (not GT70) that I can use tonight.
To be clear - I’m not upset. Stuff happens. I have a battery tube so I can play now, and I’m sure LT will make things right after the holiday.
Also Texas Ace thank you big time for the response my friend about the shipping that is great to know about the very fast shipping. I keep going back and forth of getting a GT light but going to pull the trigger on picking it up in the AM.