DQG 18650 EDC--World's Smallest 18650 Flashlight

I believe they use SING post but not the “usual” way - they (might) get Singapore vouchers, send the parcels “someway” to a Logistics center and afterwards through the usual system…
That’s the reason I believe they say “You can track it on your local post system after 1 week”…!

Try also
http://www.17track.net/index_en.shtml
or
http://en.4px.cc/ (not working at the moment)

Ahh. So it sounds like they bundle up all of the lights (probably for one country), and ship them all to someone (some company) in Singapore and then the latter breaks open the bundle and ships the individual lights out to the end customer via SingPost?

Is SingPost shipping that much cheaper than HKPost that it’d be worth doing that?

FYI, I tried the 17track.net, and that said “not found” for the tracking #s I have, so I guess that the lights haven’t gotten to Singapore yet, or whoever handles the lights in Singapore hasn’t sent them out to us yet?

Edit: Given the choice, I would have been willing to pay a nominal add’l amount to avoid all of that, if I had known :(…

I got my shippingnotice 16/4 and it says in the e-mail “You can track it on your local post system after 1 week.”

So maybe soon the trackingno. will start to work…

I´m looking forward to testing my DQG18650, so it better show up soon… :slight_smile:

It´s like the old swedish saying; “he who waits for something good, never waits too long…”

I’ve had two tracking numbers from them for about 1.5 weeks now, and neither of them is working yet :(…

Ok, we´ll just have to wait then…

It will be a nice surprise when it shows up though… :slight_smile:

I guess…

But my 1st purchase was on 3/27, and it’s now 4/23, so I have about 15 days to pull the trigger on a Paypal protest, and I know that there were about 80 people in front of me on the purchases.

I don’t really want to sound like a sceptic, but seems like all of us have only the shipping emails, and as far as I’ve seen, none of the tracking numbers work, so I’m wondering if they just used a random number generator to spew off a bunch of tracking #s and sent them out to us. I know that RIC has been on BLF for quite a while longer than I have, but as far as I can tell, I’ve seen no real evidence that these lights actually exist :(…

I bought mine on 3-20 and even though the tracking # still doesn’t work I am not worried in the least. Ric always delivers and I am sure that he will again this time.

I really hope that you’re right. I guess I haven’t been here, so don’t have the history, so I tend to get worried when things don’t work “as they should”. Things like slipping the initial delivery date and such.

Patience, patience :)…

Edit: Plus, I think that some people got their shipping email at least a week before I got my 1st one, and yet, I don’t think that anyone has reported that the tracking # that they got was working. Does it normally take ~3 weeks for an issued tracking # to start working? I would guess that if that was the case, that the lights would have arrived before the tracking #s started working, and I don’t think that anyone has reported receiving a light either?

Correct me if I am wrong but the ship date was moved up so they could give them Type 3 anodyzing.

Does this mean the titanium version might be yet a third color or is it still the gold you are referring to?

I understood it to mean both available colors were getting the HA3 treatment. I believe there are only the two colors offered but yes from what I can see the titanium color looks goldish in the picture anyway

Ric !!

Time for some comment on the Tracking Number situation. It seems that no one including myself has been able to use the Tracking Numbers sent to us to get any kind of information. It’s been weeks since tracking numbers have been sent out. What’s going on??

Depending on the shipping method used, some tracking numbers do not show any results, until the item is actually delivered. In other cases you will just see "origin post preparing shipment" for a month, and then it will only update once you receive the package.

Keep an eye on the 45 day paypal dispute window, and open a dispute if you still don't have a package at 44 days. If nothing else it just buys the seller a bit more time to actually deliver.

If you do open a dispute, and still don't receive your package, don't forget you also have to Escalate the dispute to a claim. If disputes are not addressed by either party, they are automatically closed.

If you escalate a dispute to a claim, and the seller fails to respond, the claim is automatically in your favor.

To everyone: Please calm down and try to understand that we have pre-ordered this light. There can be many legitimate reasons for delays (manufacturing, quality control, courier, HK post, ..) and at least IMHO the Paypal 45 day limit comes too soon in this case.

Disputes may cause unnecessary harm to Ric - I wouldn't like to see that happening. On the contrary, I would like him to provide us with these brand new innovative lights also in the future..

I agree completely. Homies need to relax. Don’t file a complaint.

Mine is marked as shipped on April 16 on FFL, tracking number is not working on CanPost or SingPost. Not worried about that though, I usually cannot track anything until it’s in Canada or already at the post office.

Exactly. My shipments from Chinaland usually aren’t trackable until they are almost delivered. Kinda worthless, but I don’t blame the sender for that at all.

Those of you in the US. I guess this may be a dumb question, but have you tried using the tracking number with USPS? If I remember correctly I was never able to track my last package on anything other than USPS.

Remember that shipments take the cheapest route possible (unless you specify otherwise) which means they are ever-changing and unpredictable.

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Those of you in the US. I guess this may be a dumb question, but have you tried using the tracking number with USPS?

Every single day! Lol. I am anxious to get my light also but not worried. Ric will come through. The first shipping notice did not com out until the 15th so it technically has only been 9 days.

Just checked my tracking number. No record of it on the USPS website or on the Singapore post website.

I’m not worried though. I ordered late and only received my shipping notice email 6 days ago.