Here is my take on all this shill business;
It is the world we live in.
There is a whole new industry of fake āLikesā , 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 āProductivityā 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 āBelieve half of what you see and none of what you hearā , Now of course this was before the invention of CGI, so now it should read āBelieve nothing of what you see and none of what you hearā
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 C8ās that they had for like $7.99, all work fine and got here quick.
Lastly, the whole āBannedā thing doesnāt seem to do squat.
Wallbuyās 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.
Thatās it for this Rant, we now return you to your perfect Wednesday
Later,
Keith