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.
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.
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:
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.
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.