I would like to take the opportunity to thank 18sixfifty for taking on this mammoth effort and offering to do mods on the lights.
I have only just found out that for more reasons than one, not due to anyones fault, that he will be a out of pocket a substantial amount of money on this group buy that he was not going to worry about. Most of this was PayPal fees, need I say anymore. This makes him a far better bloke than I already knew he was. If you can slip the guy a couple of dollars please feel free.
Group buys are not about making money but there not about losing money either. Thanks and hopefully the short fall will be made.
If you selected pay for goods, then you passed the fees onto a non profit operation. By making the payment to friends or family, you pay the fees. Im not sure how PayPal works for sellers but I hope there isnt more fees 18sixfifty will have to cover.
It could easily add up to $100 out of pocket. So just check you PP, did you pay fees on the transaction? If not, 18sixfifty will be. Its not just the dollar or two you might have missed (if you did), but imagine that times 70 people. I have no idea how many missed it, Im just saying. And Im not talking about currency conversion rates either, thats another factor we have to cover.
Just check, and be sure youve covered your couple of extra bucks. As above, Im not blaming anyone, its just one of those things. Im just spelling out how this happens in case you were unaware.
This was fasttechs response to the order I sent today. Please see the first post in this thread. Contact me for your refund or let me know if you still want your order or part of your order.
sorry to hear fasttech’s response with the logo problem, specially after the huge effort you made to get all our orders and creating the spreadsheet, etc.
Fasttech is proving to be what many members have been saying during the last months: a broken dream; good beginning with supreme CS, but the quality have fallen at a light speed
I didn’t order a host, and would like to receive the drivers and emitters anyway because they have a great price, but if you all guys decide to cancel the order to punish FT, I will do so too
It will still be the same price. The Logo was supposed to be free.
The messed up part is that I contacted all kinds of suppliers who would give a free logo for an order of 50 and that was what FT said too. I’m wondering if their supplier was just trying to push them into a larger order or what? Fast tech was the only one willing to ship directly to everyone though. I would have had to take shipment for everyone and then re-ship and half the people are not even in the US. So the price would have been too high. That was why I went with FT in the first place.
Will you be doing another similar group buy with logo in the near future? If so, I’ll wait for that, at least on the hosts. If not, I’ll keep my order. It’s not a huge deal.
I still want my order, with or without the logos. Thanks for all your hard work on this. My son’s really excited to build his first flashlight with me. He hasn’t been this excited since we built a crystal radio together.
I thought this is the logo groupbuy, but i guess fasttech did it again.
Anyway, i hope that in the future there will be no more dealing with F*tech for groupbuys.
I was going to do another group buy with a logo but not after this. I can’t trust fast tech to get it right and shipping the whole bunch to me and then re-shipping costs to much for most people.
Who knows how I’ll feel after it all gets straightend out but right now I’m ticked off and bumbed out about it.