Thanks maukka. I regret not buying some when they were super cheap. I’ve been holding out for them to be discounted again but may take the plunge once my FW3A arrives (unless it becomes a factory option by then!)
As far as I am concerned Marc E…. ’you’ read a heck of a lot into a sentence that contained the words “If & maybe”. :person_facepalming:
And let’s not forget “if IRC” at the beginning.
Ah, didn’t know if those people also were doing something else I didn’t know about.
Thank you, and I got a PM last night and ordered the 7A just now. Things like the LH interest me, but I like them better in Zebralights that can get longer runtime instead of more heat out of low Vf, so XPL HI is just great, 70 CRI or no. Love <4000K lights. Have a WW SST Emisar but too lazy to put together the kit to reflash it, so this’ll be my first light with the “real” firmware.
IDK about the tube-to-body anodize, but maybe they made it extra thick. If the tube is aluminum rather than something harder, it shouldn’t scratch the insulation easily… and I do have a bit of Kapton tape.
Saw some earlier post say it’s not possible to power the driver without a 3rd wire. Maybe true for this driver, but Folomov’s somewhat problematic 18650S (?) has a tailcap driver that runs in series with the LED. Thermal regulation, other than a timer, is of course impossible and that model has, from what I hear, damaged a few LEDs. Turbo should have been a lower current I guess.
I received my email and I’m about to pull the trigger except now I have a quandary. I realized after some more reading that I need 2 of them!
Would I be taking advantage if i ordered 2 since I only signed up for 1?
I don’t see how. The manufacturer will happily sell an extra unit. The coupon code isn’t personalized. I think the interest list was used mainly to estimate demand, and allow a line/queue to form.
That is interesting the coupon code isn’t personalized. You are right, checking the demand. I didn’t get one this go around. Keeping an eye on future deals.
I see some folks have already received shipping notices for their lights. I wonder how many units are available to be processed out before the May 1st holiday or whatever it is that will delay further processing until May 8th.
Thank you very much. 
I do not know what means IRRC but in the very first post its written:
“Pricing
Target $30 including shipping, manufacturer can decide own pricing afterwards.
Maybe $36 if XP-L HI emitters are used.
Not fixed yet!”
I do not want to make big deal for $3 just noticed the difference.
I wish Neal the best and to enjoy for that extra profit.
I’m sure he will enjoy that $3 & spend it wisely. 
on shipping.
Yes , in fact its about $3 x 3000 FW3A = $ 9000 a small fortune where I live….
I don’t understand why ‘you’ is in quotes, but i read the sentence that contained the words “If & maybe” as the final part of your response to the comments you quoted, specifically ifratos’s “Neal’s last minute $3 fee.” which the rest of your answer relates to, and took it to mean that: If people (like ifratos) do not keep up…. maybe they get surprised (as ifratos’s description suggests he was).
What did i get wrong?
I didn’t forget, i assumed that’s what you meant by ‘if IRRC’ and took the whole sentence as factual to the best of your knowledge, and a helpful answer. What did i get wrong?
‘IRRC’ should be ‘IIRC’ which means ‘If I Remember Correctly…’.
The prices you quote are target process, it means that the project was developed to try and be sold for that price, but it wasn’t a guaranteed price. AT the start of the project no-one knew how much it would actually cost to make the loght and therefore it was impossible to know how much the light would be sold for, $30 and $36 were a guess. A very educated guess but still a guess.
The final price was set depending on how much it costs to actually produce the light, and is close to the original price. I don’t know the details of where the money goes but i haven’t assumed it was Neal just adding money on.
IIRC can also mean If I Read Correctly, though the other meaning makes more sense in the context given.
What extra profit? The $3 extra for you is because of shipping to Romania. Most orders do not have extra shipping fees.
Maybe you know this and are just joking around about $9000, but I can’t tell.
Got my code and ordered a 3A. What a long road it’s been!
Extra shipping to specific countries where there’s a high cost seems fair. I just wanted to make sure there’s not some sneaky fee being added to later orders.
Hey… I don’t know what “IRRC” means either… it was a typo. :person_facepalming: … My bad.
- IIRC = If I remember correctly
- if IRC = If I remember correctly
And quite possibly I did not remember correctly.
I know I read somewhere months ago that shipping to certain countries was extremely high and that even ‘free shipping’ to those countries would have to be subsidized by the buyer.
I honestly thought I remembered that was mentioned & discussed in this thread. But as I stated…. maybe I remembered wrong. But I know it was discussed somewhere & I shall try to find where that was.
IIRC this was brought on by the BLF GT when Lumintop lost their rear ends on shipping quite a few of those lights.
I honestly do not think Neal is trying to pull a fast one or make “extra profit”. That kinda makes him sound like a thief, And I for one DO NOT think Neal is a thief.
I think he is trying to cover legitimate cost so it does not come out of his pocket, as was rumored to have happened with part of the BLF GT’s.
Is it completely out of place to suggest that if the idea of paying an unexpected $3 is that upsetting, maybe just don’t order the light? I’ve dropped any number of purchases at the “pay now” screen after I finally got to see the shipping cost, and didn’t like it. Usually that’s $8-$20 “surprise” charges (one place, $25 for a small UPS package from Arizona to North Carolina, when $10 is the most that could cost). $5, I might grumble. $2-3, unless it’s a $5 item, probably not.
And, yeah, “target price” is really not something to take as more than a rough estimate.