$5 Thrunite Ti

If anyone gets a pink Ti & doesn’t want it I’ll buy it. My wife wants one also.

Trying to buy at the new price but getting this error when adding to cart:

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Anyone else?

What does it matter if someone gave them the wrong phone number? What do they do, call first? Also, I agree that this was a mistake as far as marketing. They offer a great deal and then take it back because too many people jumped on it. Then they don’t ship in a timely manner and are slow to respond to emails.

For many, this was the first experience with this company and it is not looking like a place you would want to spend more money at. The idea is give them a taste of your product and hope they come back and buy more items at full price. Right now, I wouldn’t pay full price for their product because, slow shipping, lack of CS and inconsistant message from seller.

They are processing all orders after the deal ends.

Yeah, but don’t forget that in first 24 hours, almost 1000 Ti were sold. Man, I don’t know how much people are in their group, but dunno they have enough to process all those orders in even one week :open_mouth:

I’ll cut them some slack for two reasons. First, it was a great deal and I’m willing to wait for a good deal. Second, they sold out of the initial allotment in hours, and then chose to expand it substantially. I got my order in during that second wave, so if they had just held it to something manageable, I would have been too late. They chose to expand it to something unmanageable to include more people.

Luckily I have a couple of other lights I can use until this one comes in ...

You’ve completely missed the point here, this is about product awareness, why promote your brand to people who are already aware you exist, if the company was smart about marketing enthusiast would be the last people to include.

The whole idea is to promote your brand to a new market to expand brand awarness, there is little value in speding money on an existing market.

Yeah, the way they did it really doesn’t make a lot of sense. I’m not complaining. I got one of the $5 ones to add to the $16 one that I already have.

They should have done this when they first introduced the TI to help promote a new light as well as their company in general. This isn’t going to expand their customer base really.

If they want to reach the more general market they can’t really do that from China. It needs to be (for the U.S.) from their U.S. dealers. I didn’t even order my first TI from China.

However, it is worthwhile to provide deals to enthusiasts but it would help them more to do it in such a way that it helps introduce new product to enthusiasts.

I give them credit for actually providing a great light at a very discounted price with no unnecessary gimmicks involved (think DD $8 light).

Glad to hear they responded to your emails Taz

iappologize for suggesting that you ought to just .."get over it " or that you should let them hold your mail or have someone else pick up your mail .

I'm sure it made no sense to some people that they might forget to hold your mail /or send the light back ...But considering your circumstances and the general condition of Greece ...Not trusting the post office makes much more sense .i understand your frustrations and also cannot even begin to imagine some of what's going on in your country ..Again I appologize for assuming things are the same worldwide when it's obvious it isn't .

I assume you found Thrunite an intelligent well run company that cares and understands your concerns and is willing to do whatever it can to facilitate you recieving your light .

Got it working. I wonder do orders at $10.99 get sent first? J)

What? :~ You obviously don’t understand marketing! I drive an Audi and would not buy anything else, but that does not stop Mercedes and BMW trying to sell me a car! If they offered me a very good deal, I may look at them. But if they offered me a deal and then withdrew it prematurely, I would not think they were very professional and would avoid them.

Why on earth would a flashlight company try and avoid a flashlight community? It’s target audience. You must be the only person here with only one brand of torch the I presume?

I have not missed the point at all. Thrunite have got a lot of brand awareness recently here and on facebook after this promotion. The problem is it is not a positive.

Marc.


It’s ok, I suppose they were overwhelmed by the number of orders they got for the \$5 offer, and they got more than they could handle… :p
Although usually the postal system here works very well, it definitely lags behind the organization and service of other western countries, in many areas. As for Greece, well countries and governments nowadays are run not by politicians, or by the will of the people, but by multinational companies, banks, and funds… someone always makes money by causing suffering at someone else…

I’m going to order two. Can I ask for one firefly and one non-firefly?

Yes, you may ask :slight_smile:

But I doubt it will have any effect..^^

I did. And the light for discounted prices will be random color/kind. If you want to specify color/kind pay the full price.

We should have an after sale swap so people who want to swap the low mode with firefly can find each other. I don’t really care about color but I hope I don’t dim (firefly) version. I don’t have any use for a light that barely works.

I’m hoping for a Firefly version, but color doesn’t matter. I can’t complain for 5 bucks though.