Yeah, you’re right. My problem is the Philippines postal system and Banggood bypasses it and uses courier services so I get door to door delivery that takes 2 weeks instead of 3 months. Dealing with Banggood makes you appreciate how relativity simple and straight forward buying from Fasttech is.
Also, Fasttech’s selection of enthusiast type flashlights and related stuff seems like it’s shrinking and very often they don’t get the latest models. The new lights they’ve been getting lately seem to be mostly cheap unbranded flashlights.
I dislike BG’s smoke and mirrors and their seeming assumption that their customers are morons that can be manipulated by clever tricks and policies and I would prefer to order from Fasttech.
We are very lucky China did not get upset enough to cut all shipments to the US after the Covid virus was named the China Virus,
Seriously, the farther the place you order from is, the longer it takes to get it. If China was any further, it would be considered a planet and not a country.
I think 4 weeks is reasonable.
We get lucky sometimes when something arrives in 2 weeks but that’s the exception.
don’t you guys know how marketing works? if they have to tell you they are fast, honest, ……blah blah, in reality it is absolutely different. when an advertisement promises you something, be sure you will not get it. same for names of business, when someone names their pizza place the best pizza in town, you can be sure it is garbage, or they are the only pizza place in town
I had an order through aliexpress once that had not arrived in 2 months, so I filed a dispute. Then I recieved an item with the tracking number but it was not what I ordered at all….piece of junk. I amended the dispute. A month later Aliexpress claimed to have issued a refund, but it never showed on my card. I finally just gave up, even though it was about a 150 dollar pocket knife. Then about 14 months later, I was showing a package arriving using USPS informed delivery even though I could not think of anything I had ordered. Well it was that knife….where it hid for 16 months is still a mystery. That is the record for my slowest shipment ever that actually did finally arrive. Fastech, Gearbest, Aliexpress, Banggood, and Neals Gadgets are all very slow. Another mystery is with O-light shipping from China with tracking having taken 3 days…really? It came all the way from China in 3 days…what is O-light’s secret? When they first started shipping from China, they were a bit slow, but not the last few times. Other than them, if it comes from China, I expect slow. I think some of them use only walking, swimming, row boats and bicycles for deliveries.
I have placed many orders with FastTech but none in the past four years, that is until about 7 weeks ago. In the distant past FastTech used to deliver in under 4 weeks but not anymore.
So over the past 7 weeks beginning April 11th, I’ve placed 6 FastTech orders. As of this writing only one order has been received. And the order placed April 11th is still in-transit.
@PiercingTheDarkness
Let’s not be so quick to give a pass to FastTech for taking two months to deliver the goods.
Compared with other China vendors, which is what really matters to me, is how the competition is doing over this exact same time frame…… If they were all taking two months to deliver that would be one thing, but it’s not.
So, also over the past 7 weeks there have been 4 orders with Banggood, all have arrived, and all took less than 4 weeks.
Likewise over the past 7 weeks there have been 6 orders with AliExpress and none have taken over 4 weeks to deliver.
The takeaway here is that FastTech takes anywhere from 7 to 10 days to simply get the shipment out - whereas the competition ships within 2 or 3 days.
Plus, half of the FastTech orders were “Rejected/Returned” while in-transit by the Chinese shipping system. Only one of the other vendors’ shipments was Rejected/Returned, so Simon’s store intervened and it was quickly moving again after only a 3 day delay. Interestingly, two of the six FastTech shipments have seen multiple Rejections/Returns.
If this was just one or two orders, no matter the vendor, I would simply take it with a grain of salt, call it an aberration and move on. But it’s not. With FastTech there is enough data to form a trend and it’s not a good trend. And FastTech support has been of zero help. At this time I will not be ordering anything from them again…… FastTech is on the Black List.
Don’t be so “fast” (haha) to put the blame on FT for that.
Only time that ever happened to me was from Sofirn/AX for a Q8 reflector or LED board (forgot which). Was on its way, then I saw notice that it was rejected and sent back. Wtf?
I was told to just reorder it. Basically get credited for the original order as a no-show, but reorder it anew, and I gave up at that point (long story).
Max is correct if all shipping from China took 2 months it would be one thing. Like I have stated the Convoy store basically sent my order twice and it took one month. I have another order coming Monday or Tuesday from the Convoy store wich will be 17 or 18 days. Aliexpress is averaging 14 days. When dealing directly with Mateminco they are averaging 12 days. I paid for faster shipping once from Mateminco 10 dollars or so,my package arrived in 8 days. Fasttech is consistently a much longer wait. But I will try them again in a few months.
Tip for Neals Gadgets….If 5 days pass and the item is not shipped, it is likely out of stock. Using their facebook page IM them to ask, and they will then check on it and tell you it is out of stock. Why they do not just know that when ordered, or tell you when they know it is anybodys guess. If out of stock request a refund through the instant messenger on facebook. That is the only reliable way I have been able to contact them. All my orders that were not shipped within 5 days were out of stock, and all other orders were shipped and recieved in a timely manner…2-3 weeks.
