EXPERIENCES WITH LIGHTMALLS?

Well, I pulled the trigger on the sky ray king cool white from LIGHTMALLS on 4/21 really late at night and on 4/22 got a packing notice for the order.This morning I received a shipping confirmation with a tracking number Singapore Post,so far so good.Now the wait.

All things from HK and CN post are crawling right now. Bad. I've got many shipments from ebay, DX, MF, BIC, Tomtop... they are ALL getting to me over a month or so mark.

3-4 years ago I recall HK post will deliver around a week mark. Too much export for China now I suppose :)

I think lightmalls has been wise to choose SG as shipment point right now. Esp. better for nearby neighboring countries, like me.

I bought my SkyFail from Lightmalls. Lightmalls service and shipping was great. The light however . . .

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HaHa skyfail… Aint that the truth, I got one in my closet waiting for a driver transplant.Kinda makes me nervous but I guess the budget light sector is somewhat of a “turd polishing” outfit where we get busted junk from the vendor and make them better and brighter.

Well....this morning got back from a coffee run and I find a "sorry we missed you" notice from the post office,so I call the post office and they tell me I can pick up my package tomorrow.Not good enough for me,so being my usual psychotic self,I combed the neighborhood and found the mailman(end rant).Yes I'm that crazy but all that aside LIGHTMALLS was good price,14 day ship time from order to doorstep and packed well.In my book they are a good vendor and some prices are not great,but if they have deals I will order again.

Just got a Skyray King CW this week from them. Great service and delivery time. Only 10 days from order date until it arrived in Texas. As a side note--The king is an awesome little light. Great flood and still reasonable throw.

Seems to be alot of positives for lightmalls,maybe Mr.Admin can put this thread under dealer experiences for us.

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YOU DA MAN !

I have had a good experience with lightmalls as well. They are definitely lifting their game.
I got an Ultrafire C8 U2 from them, and that was awesome. Perfect machining, and the driver pulled 3 amps.

It is now my best flashlight and I am looking for another light to buy off them, for me to review.

I saw this the other day at lightmalls and I have to admit this is a very tempting offer, great price, never seen cheaper this flashlight + free worldwide shipping, it even sounds a bit unreal!!!
What do you think?

My first and only experience with them has been horrid. I tried to purchase a Sky Ray King from them. Spend over two hours trying to get their web site to accept the order. A friend finally hacked the amateurish source code to the web page and managed to get the order in.

A month later they sent an email saying that customs in China had sent it back to them and that they are re-sending it via Singapore. I’d say, just avoid the place.

You actually hacked the site to accept orders that the site normally wouldn't, then it got stuck at customs and returned, and lightmalls had the courtesy to notify you and attempt to reship from different location... and it's horrid?

I just don't see what lightmalls did wrong there.

I've had multiple items from them, all received in a week, all good quality (in fact, their SF L2 & SR King are the top of my collection).

Anyone ever experience this before? since the end of july, we are now at the end of september, my “flawless” Ultrafire hd2010 has been stuck as far as shipping goes. Here’s what I get when I track it at usps.com

Your Item’s Status
We have received notice that the originating post is preparing to dispatch this mail piece. Information on this item has been restored from offline files and will be available online for 30 days from 09/27/2012

How much longer can it be?? AT what point should something be done by lightmalls?? This is worse than dx

He did not truly "hack" the site. He just used the debugging tool to make it accept his order. I had tried to place an order there too and it wouldn't let me. It's just a glitchy suckish website imo.

No, their buggy web site was not letting the order go through without selecting a shipping method. No where did their order screen say that you needed to select a shipping method. The place order button was just grey’d out. I’ve seen better code written by a 6 year old.

After finally figuring out why the place order button was not enabled, we used an html debugging tool to edit the html code to select a shipping method. All editing was done to the local copy of the web page, nothing was done to their web site.

Pulsar, in case you don't understand what he means press f12, he used that pop up to make his order go through.

OK. I still don't understand it though, too deep for me :) but I get it's done only on the client side.

Actually, it’s quite simple. Basically, when you visit a web page, the web site sends a program to your computer. That program is (usually) written in the HTML language. Your web browser then runs the HTML program to do what the web site says (draw a form, display an image, etc).

Most browsers have a way to look at and modify that HTML program that the web site sent to your computer. If that HTML program is poorly written, you get pissed off customers. If the pissed off customer is compu-savvy they might just look at the HTML code and patch what is causing the problem. Less savvy customers just take their business elsewhere…

Deceptive politics at work again… :expressionless:
I found couple of interesting products with very good price so I looked a little bit more around the website,
found this:

OK, that is what I want, free delivery, that was the first condition
I also found this pic:

great, so they accept payment via credit card, not just through paypal. Second condition = OK.

At least I got that impression… But when I registered I found out that is just a deceptive politics of theirs.
First of all, All shipping is NOT free Only if you spend about 50 or more $ free shipping option becomes available, for
everything less than that you have an option of more expensive and less expensive shipping but there is no free shipping…
Further, they accept ONLY paypal payment, if I know all that I certainly would not register…

Btw, this is how (non deceptive) “We accept only paypal payment” sign looks like:

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