GB Clone Offically "SOLD OUT" 10/21/18 XPL HI 1300LM Focusing AKA Cometa 2016

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. :smiley:

“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. :beer:

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: … :slight_smile:

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.

Actually, I let it run for room lighting in the morning (~20 min) and then shut it off to leave. It was warm, nothing like a D4, and I removed the battery so it wouldn't suffer the heat for as long. When I got home and put the battery back in, I noticed the insulator was out of position.

The light has a lot of material but I'm still studying its' thermal distribution.

Back ordered yesterday; shipped today; email said arriving 11/1. upgraded to vip2 :wink:

The worth of this light... like any light is the basic value of its parts .

The lens being the hardest part to find and never found cheaply 10-12$

the driver and lighted tailcap are another7-8$

Emitter 5$ Pill,body ,ano,assembly & shipping . This light was a sought after exciting custom light at the time for 40-45$

at 15$ it’s worth more than that just for the parts .

Enough has been said about this light and it’s issues that if anyone buys this light and blows themselves up because of it they deserve it and the worlds a better place without them .

Good grief, are you trying to compete with the Blackpool Illuminations in Wakefield ? :wink:

By the way, technically you have not purchased them yet. Under English law an offer has to be made, then accepted, before there is a binding contract. I think you will find that you have not passed the second step. Yet.

Edit: unless you met a BG person and shook hands on it (a handshake is still enough for a binding contract here, and my preferred method. Or a PM). It’s still a matter of honour, a bit like gambling debts, which are un-enforceable here, but word will get out if you renege. Old fashioned I know, but it keeps the world turning around, for now, despite a few idiots who have reached very senior office, but have shown that they are utterly clue-less and have no class.

Or do you have a cunning plan to get rich quick, maybe talk to Sir Alan Sugar and see what he thinks.

I suppose they might eventually turn up, via a circuitous route. Keep us posted (so to speak).

Stop it. I’m getting hungry…

Haha! Well, it's lunch time for the East Coast. I know you have some tastier options! lol

Halal cart. Lamb+chicken over rice, lettuce, onion, “white sauce”, “green sauce”… eat yer hearts out! :laughing: