What is the track record of these GB lights in the later stages of delivery as far as genuine OEM LEDS, circuitry, exact same parts as the first run (etc.)? I would care less for a few bucks off if I had some kind of sense that the very first run of lights being reviewed were basically the ones to get while each subsequent run…well…read your history books.
According to Sofirn, the Yuji LEDs these are using have been discontinued. After this, they definitely will have to use a different LED if they choose to keep making this light.
Not sure about the rest of your concerns though.
EDIT: To avoid future confusion by my post, there will be 1,000 of each tint made, so 2,000 lights with the Yuji LEDs. Once all of those sell out, I’m sure if Sofirn continues to make the light with another LED, the description will reflect the change, no bait and switch.
A nice idea in theory but I’ve already seen this light getting posted around other forums so it’s every flashaholic for himself.
Two available at this moment. Guess orders not completed.
Thanks for clearing that up for me as I was trying to figure out where these GBs have evolved to in terms of folks clamoring to get their names on a list that doesn’t even guarantee the LED being used.
If you’ve been around this craze from the beginnings this would have been unheard of back then…yet to be fair…unprotected and protected cells are now being called “the same thing” without a peep of argument otherwise so the bar has obviously been lowered an awful long ways in terms of expectations and even general knowledge.
Times are good in China as related to what the rest of the world expects and their (new) standards in general.
Thanks for the clarification djozz! Never saw the comment!
I hope we’re all good now 
> It’s a toll Ali takes on PayPal payments
I wonder if that’s intended to rule out PP intervention if there’s a problem with an order.
Oh, well, there’s always filing a complaint with the credit card company.
I never had any problem with aliexpress support. Had a few situations where I received damaged product or it simply didn’t arrive and even if seller was trying not to refund my money aliexpress always ruled out full refund after opening dispute.
I never pay with PayPal. There is an option of using polish market-specific services (przelewy24, PayU) that work kind of like PP but are much more flexible and do not require sending detailed personal data to them in order to make any payment, I do use these usually but never had to contact them to get my issues resolved.
In aliexpress I also do not pay with Paypal because of the fees. Aliexpress has a convenient enough option to pay with Ideal, which is a common dutch paying system. It does not have the customer protection system that Paypal has so I only do smallish payments this way. Very large payments I would do with a credit card, but that hardly ever happened sofar.
parkerdude - to be clear I’m not interested in 6 lights, I couldn’t find my name on this list and signed up again. Just 3.
parkerdude 0; 3 , please disregard entry 1476.
Thanks !
When will the next batch be available? And will it come with the same emitter and same price?
List is here:
BTW, the interest list is all that its, a list to show Sofirn the number of “interests”. The first batch (300) was already sold and more will come, in black in boths tints. Later the coloured hosts will arrive as well!
Please check on AliExpress Sofirn Official Store to buy the flashlights when they are availble :+1:
The first batch of 300 were sold in 129 orders… so a touch more than 2 per order. That was quick!
I’ll bookmark the page and have to check it daily now!
Thanks to all who made this happen!
when manufacturers listen to what we want, make what we want, we will buy. Simple concept.
Well Ali now claims they’ve shipped three lights priced either $7.01 or $7.02 — they’re really confused over there.
Maybe they managed to get money from a credit card or PayPal without my ever approving a payment.
wtf!?
There are other market segments that don’t post here- why else would Fenix have taken so long to produce neutral tints and other highly desired features?
That said this is one of the coolest things about the BLF specials. Manufacturers working with people who know about and want to buy a product essentially offload a chunk of R&D and market research costs and get a more successful product. I wonder how many BLF A6/Astrolux S1 flashlights have sold? It has seemed popular among all the other flashlights on Banggood for a long time, so it probably found an audience far beyond BLF and sold extremely well. On our side, we’ve had wide availability of an excellent light and originally it came at a very good price.
Seems like a win-win to me.
I would like a full líne of some brands plenty of warms and neutral tint…
But now I am very entertained trying change cool to warms leds.
Thanks, Sofirn and BLF’rs
Just a question for clarification: did Sofirn ever explain why they named this flashlight C01?
Ofcourse one can guess:
- C for “cockroach”
- C for copy (of Fenix E01)
- C for “compact”
- C for (everyday) “carry”
Did I miss something somewhere?
Have no clue, but my vote goes to door #3.