I let them know I was good and ticked off. What gets me is that I know they lost money by not taking the order. Even at the price they quoted me they had to be making money. So why would they mess around and lose a $1,600 order and tick off a whole bunch of people? Lazy, greedy or stupid?
Also I had to have told them that this was for Budget Light Forum at least 30 different times. So they knew it was for a bunch of their customers who have been with them from the time they started out.
Never jumped on the FT bandwagon myself, actually had more problems with FT than many other vendors including several on the blacklist. Thanks for trying 18sixfifty, sorry about all the effort invested by yourself. As for the host, emitters, and drivers, I could care less.
I had just ordered qty 5 of these: 2.1A 7135 2 group driver for $2.37 each -- I'll add 7135's and re-program them anyway. I've ordered a ton of these: 2.8A 7135 2 group driver at $2.68 each in the past in qty 5 or qty 10 bunch's. I thought I requested ordering qty 10 of items in the past from them, and it took so long for them to get back to me, and the price difference was insignificant anyway, so I gave up trying to get price quotes.
This pretty much is another confirmation how bad these guys have become. Unfortunately, I still have to depend on them for some things because they still are the only source for some hard to find items, and they still have the best 7135 driver and parts prices around that I could find.
Many of us swear almost as much as our wives. But not all of us like to read it, some are women who dont like foul language, some of us have children/grandchildren reading alongside us. After all, its just torches we are talking about here and as such most dont expect to be confronted with language that leaves us wishing we didnt let the little tikes sit on our lap as we browse our favorite forum. This leavs people apprehensive about logging in too, so we lose, well who knows what we lose, but Im guessing most dont want to find out. As we are a community, the only way that can work is not to swear/post pictures you wouldnt want your kids to see.
Thanks for handling all the trouble so gracefully 18sixfifty! Groupbuys are usually not trouble-free, but this one went really unfortunate! Great effort!