I ordered W/battery on 9/20, I cancelled the order a couple days later once I got the cancel button. They had already shipped the 2 free 18650s which haven’t shown up. Then I got a notice they had shipped my order on 10/9. I guess I’ll take a look at it and decide iffn I want to mess with it or flip it. I’ll no doubt keep the 26650 iffn it’s in there.
Be careful with the lens, lucky for me I dropped mine from about 5mm height where it already sat on my table, when open the bezel, make sure the lens is facing down so that it doesn’t drop out of the bezel. The lens is loose inside and not holding itself on the bezel.
I turned up the heat allowance and now the driver-side anti-short ring is pretzled. It'll still do the job but it's loose now. I'm going to add some kapton tape just for kicks.
The main reasons I bought this flash in multiple quantities is for the AR glass lens, the short 26650 tube, the twist zoom, the pocket rocketability and of course the great BLF price.
But must of all I bought it to piss off TOM TOM. :laughing:
I really do not know what BG is playing. They still sell the light China warehouse but my order switched to backorder yesterday.
Also i had to contact the support for some questions in the last two month (pre sales product information). The answeres i got were not the answeres to my question. Not even close! If i had asked my postdelivery guy the questions i would have gotten a answere that is more usefull! It was always bad but not this bad!
@nottawhackjob
:+1:
Mine also back order even though it is still in stock status now. I asked CS and was told it is in processing. No proper direct answer, are those CS actually AI robots?
It appears the ordering process on this one is kinda like a ‘box of chocolates’… you never know what your gonna get. Or when your gonna “get” anyway. 
“Pretzled”? . Did it melt??
Well spoken! :THUMBS-UP: :BEER:
Or to say it in different words...maybe it's all just floating around accidental...like on a breeze. ;-)
BTW: Mine is still stuck in Xiamen, China for more than one week.
Mine is shipped. So it took about 48 hours from processing to back order to shipped. Finger crossed.
Mine too, ordered yesterday, shipped today
We have regular cargo flights between UK and China. So stuff can be shifted around very quickly, if necessary.
Oh, still showing 143 in stock in UK. at £20.82.
Maybe 143 is just a code, like anything priced at PC-World in the UK, with 0.75 on the end indicates a close-out.
Or £11.53 from CN (not BOed)
For sh*ts and giggles I just ordered one from CN, let’s see where this goes. It would not surprise me if it turned up in 2-3 days, from UK, which has happened before.
Yes, I know, and feel dirty, but how bad can it be (it was pretty bad the first time around), but for under £12 …
Air miles, like food-miles, still don’t seem to matter, funny old world. I suppose that if you have a regular contract, negotiated based on shifting pallets of stuff in the future, one way or the other, then it doesn’t really matter what is being transported, or the reasons for doing so.
It really is all becoming very random.
I knew you will join the Back order game. How to resist this greatest deal in flashlight history. Don’t worry, it is not a bomb anymore.
I don’t seriously expect this ever to arrive (was shown as being in stock when I ordered, but just now tracking my order it is BOed).
If so, PayPal will sort out the mess.
Meanwhile I regard it as entertainment, in a perverted masochistic way. I don’t even want this, never-mind need it. And I certainly don’t respect the way it happened.
The ten I purchased (14 listed as available at the time) can’t be sent to me as they have sold out!!!
Excellent Banggood.
Wow…. the one I ordered on Oct 15th just went from backordered to shipped.
Yes. Maybe I should have said Pringled, lol.
Naah, either word is good…. melted is melted. :person_facepalming:
Thanks for the info…. :+1: … 
BROODMASTER, about how many minutes it took to melt the plastic? I bet it is too hot to touch on the flashlight when that happened.