Wallbuys.com [AVOID]

In the forum itself, specifically in a non-wallbuys thread (HIDCanada's) about the VP1.

I guess I was one of the lucky ones by not experiencing the issues some others have. I’ve had good experiences with my dealings so far. I gave them some heat early about lying with fake/copied reviews. They have since removed the reviews. They also dealt with my one issue (missing strap for UF T90) very quickly by shipping it hours before going away for CNY.
I hope I didn’t come off as a shill by reviewing a couple of their products. After I did a review they wanted to send me lights for review, but that hasn’t happened so far, and I’ll be rejecting any future offers they make. I do see a lot of vendor provided items for review, so my guess was this is an OK practice if done objectively.
Anyone who believes or suspects I am was a shill for Wallbuys, please PM me so we can discuss it.
I received the PM spam as well. I didn’t report it as I didn’t clue in to what it was right away. I used PMs with Wallbuys to deal with the missing strap issue, as their website was missing an easy way to report problems with orders.
sb, since you had reached out to them to improve their practices with no apparent improvement, I agree with your decision.
Decisions like this are often not easy to make. It’s nice having an admin that stands up to protect members!

i still dont know what wallbuys wtf means!!

my little experience with them, i had ordered 2 Fenix diffusers and the order was fulfilled and delivered fast. packaging was commendable and everything all right so i am a satisfied customer.

No they won’t. :slight_smile:

Not at all! Rather, when they first came to BLF, they created several accounts and made posts pretending to be satisfied customers. They admitted as much in a “beg for forgiveness” type of thread. But it was all crocodile tears.

Glad to see this, I’ve had it with their unsavory ways.
Thanks sb!

I never did receive my very first order, a HD2011, on the Christmas Sale, but every other order was great. I got a T90, along with relic 38, 3 Small Suns, a Longire, and a couple other lights with no problem. The prices were rock bottom, and I was happy, except for never getting the HD2011, on which there was no tracking. I don’t think they were evil, just a tad naive and sneaky, more like children…just sayin…

I do not think they have a poor costumer service, the only thing poor is their english that’s all.

And I do not think they are dishonest. One order that I did not receive, they promised to refund after Chinese holiday and they refunded as they promised.

We all ordered many things at half price and they are a new company so let’s be honest!

I am just quoting myself from some another thread:

Ordered one light not on sale. It never showed up. THEY offered to send out a replacement. Then they refused to send it. When I asked them why they told me to wait longer and that they would not send a replacement. I asked for a refund and got no answer, I filed a paypal dispute, they answered via paypal and said they couldn’t refund during the dispute. At the end of the dispute time and the first day of full paypal claim they finally refunded.

They lied to me twice. They were not going to send a replacement and they could have refunded my money without dealing with paypal or during the dispute process. I never did get the flashlight, but I did get a refund.

I am not surprised to see them gone.

to see them gone. i received a broken nitecore i4 charger. they told me to take it to an appliance repair store and have it fixed! i filed a claim with paypal and got refunded. thank you sb for taking swift action!!!

Thank you!

Of all the shilling, this tops the list:

What good is the ‘unmatched promotion’ when you never received the order?

What about the aggravation and wasted time you went through waiting for the order that was never meant to be shipped out?

From a poster:

They knew exactly what they pay for them and exactly how much profit they were making from them.

For all the confusion and worry that I had with Wallbuys, the incredible payoffs were wonderful for me, half price Fenix lights and a $19.00 Olighti6 and all of the cheap Fenix accessories, gave me the gear that I have been craving for a couple of years and they were well worth some trouble, and they always dealt with me well in emails, showing extraordinary patience when I never could get that windows office thing to work for me.

The only actual burns (actual screwing and then told to pound sand) that I have received from retailers here, is from International Outdoor, and Banggood.com.

I have mixed feelings about Wallbuys. Their sales were a stupid, you had to jump though hoops and hope you got the stuff you ordered, which you may or may not do, looking at the last sale. Their site was a little disorganised and there was not a lot of stuff. They also indirectly caused a lot of disagreements on here (hey Brad :wink: ).

They were also a little rude to me via PM, but that may or may not have been the language barrier, not sure.

But on the up side, I ordered one of those little 18650 chargers with the fold out plug pins. It should have been $3.79 but they had it at $1.79, a mistake more than likely. I got that in a very reasonable time and it is a brilliant. I also received mt Olight i6 today, ordered it on the 19th, shipped on the 20th an it arrived today. That’s only 8/9 days. :bigsmile:

So it is a shame they couldn’t do things properly. They could have been a good little dealer.

Marc.

Ok, well, just to be fair I added some “pros” based on the comments here. But the “avoid” rating stays. It is mainly based on their deplorable behavior here on BLF. Usually if a company tries so hard to get business even in dishonest and unscrupulous ways, it’s because it is incapable of doing business in the face of other better competitors.

Can they still post their sales here? I hope so.

Rather than “reports” of sales, haven’t they offered the most incredible sales that most of us have seen, like 50% off Fenix lights and up to 79% off on high quality brand lights like Olight? Couldn’t we change that pro to “offers some incredible sales and great prices”?

Shouldn’t “Some satisfied customers” be changed to ‘many satisfied customers’?

I was really growing to like their incredible sales having never seen anything like them in my time with flashlights.

I just never trusted them. Never bought into the sales, just didn’t like their approach.

For any other dealers reading this, I let the one spam pm go(not wallbuys, someone else), I wont accept another though, if I plan to blow a wad of cash on a light I’ll come looking, I dont need or want them forcing on me. :expressionless:

Good move sb, I for one was getting sick of every other post on recent posts being “wallbuys this or reserve sale that” fasttec seems to be doing well without treating the forum as an advertisement all the time, many dealers could learn from them.

+1, I say don't let them post any of their deals on here...

I think they are banned. So they won’t be able to post.

I wasn’t sticking up for them or trying to to change you views. For what it’s worth I think you have made the right decision. I was just reflecting on what an enigma they were. They could have been a great dealer but just seemed to be lacking in the important bits.

Marc.