We are sorry for the mistake we made [Aurabuy]

sorry too!!

Never knew they have fake accounts here. Anywhere thanks for the notice.

hi Kevin, apart from stopping spamming BLF, could you please also check your website for malware, I keep getting warnings (even via BLF, annoying) about 'suspicious site, this and that baddy found etc.' Easy to buy a viruschecker I'd say.

djozz

What about some small apology gifts?

Hi Kevin! I appreciate the apology and explanation. Thank you!

djozz, what software are you using?

I once got an A60 from him. Would you believe when I opened the light’s bezel and put it back, I noticed the lens was missing.
I don’t know if the light came with or without the lens because I could no longer find it nor did I noticed that the lens was missing when it arrived. I emailed Kevin about it and guess what, he sent me 2 extra lenses, free of charge.

So Mr. Lee, please discipline your men and hope you will be forgiven.

Wow, shipped with a missing lens! :zipper_mouth_face:

Strangely enough it happens when I go to the BLF-site at work (oops, now you know ), I get this message from the local school network software, not sure what software that is exactly (I'm not into computers much):

Everyone does it!

It might be Sophos. Well, searching for “mal/htmlgen-a” turns up lots of Sophos results.

Actually, i’m pretty sure that he said that he couldn’t remember whether he had mislaid the Lens or whether it was not there to start with. But regardless he was shipped 2 replacements without question. That to me is the WOW. Good Service

You are correct Toph

it goes a bit beyond just a “violation of rules” imo.

+1

These 'happy customers' weren't selling items, but rather promoting the company. This hints at a corporate culture of deception and management approval.

I'm not sure this 'apology' passes the sniff test.

This is the third "beg for the forgiveness" thread seen in the last several months, from as many vendors...anyone see a pattern ?

There are many hard-working vendors who choose to NOT deceive their customers...I personally choose to support them with my heard-earned cash.

I’m not buying it. Actions speak louder than words. Anyone can sit down & type an apology. There’s no real atonement. The only thing this thread proves to me? You’re sorry that you got caught, nothing more.

Here is my take on all this shill business;

It is the world we live in.
There is a whole new industry of fake “Likes” , Reviews, Comparisons, etc. promoting products/services/stores/brands.
There is also a newer industry of attempting to squash negative Reviews/Comparisons or at least knock them down in relativity on the popular search engines. People get paid to do these things, some of those people work in house, others are outsourced. Anytime you put people on a pay scale that depends on “Productivity” you get shortcuts/cheats etc. Nature of the beast.

This is not unique to the flashlight industry. Bogus book and movie reviews have been going on for decades. Car reviews, same thing. The list goes on.

As my father told me at a young age “Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear” , Now of course this was before the invention of CGI, so now it should read “Believe nothing of what you see and none of what you hear”

My sniff test on any of these smaller China companies is this;

Do they ship the product that they claim to have in stock?
If yes, is it shipped in a timely manner with Tracking available?
If yes, do they respond to legitimate questions before and after the sale?
And most importantly, do they stand behind their products and try to fix problems when the arise?

If they do all these things, then they deserve and will get my repeat business, shill or no shills.

Aurabuy passes all these criteria and I could not be happier than to have received my Jacobs A60 on time, in great shape and it actually says Jacobs on it, unlike the DX model which took 7 weeks to receive and had bad threads. But it did operate and I was glad to at least get one as everyone else seemed to run out of them at that time.

Also got 3 of the Ultrafire C8’s that they had for like $7.99, all work fine and got here quick.

Lastly, the whole “Banned” thing doesn’t seem to do squat.
Wallbuy’s is more popular now than before they pulled their crap. It anything it seems to have helped them.And they do suck when it comes to after sale service and just being able to understand what the heck they are trying to say. I have pretty much given up on them unfortunately.

That’s it for this Rant, we now return you to your perfect Wednesday :slight_smile:
Later,
Keith

Although it is annoying to see such deed but to me as long as they give me exactly what I pay for plus satisfying service quality then I will still order from them.

+ 1

now that you're mentioning it, .. kinda true and amusing. too many beg for forgiveness threads. foul, they stink.

How about some discounts? Aye aye :wink:

I have an expression, talk is cheap, and businesses (often) make it even cheaper.
An apology is nice but if its not meant then its even lower then saying nothing, and in this case we cannot easily determine if it is meant

I’ve said it (or at least thought it) before: Man, you all are a really tough audience :)!

Seriously though, with the caveat that I haven’t been here very long (relatively) to maybe encounter some of what happened, but, to me, at least he (Kevin) tried.

I am not saying everything is ok and hunky-dory, but I am suggesting that should be enough to garner a “wait and see”.

“Actions speak louder than words”, so let’s see how he/they do from here?

Just my opinion…

Jim