We all understand that once shipped its out of their hands but for them to CLEARLY LIST 6-14 business days on their wesite but as soon as you contact them through paypal they claim it takes 15-45 BUSINESS days……thats absolutely bull. They are saying that so we have to wait past the paypal claim window so they cant get hit with claims. Although they say if it take over 45 BUSINESS days that hey will refund your cost………I dont believe that one bit after other issues with this.
Do they not realize 45 business days is almost 3 months! Heck I could have machined this light myself without a lathe in less time!
This is what gets me. Directly from their website…
6-14 business days to have it from the time of purchase to in my hands, yet every single time we do a group buy through this company, we hear the words “please wait 45 days for shipment to arrive.” But you quoted us at 6-14 business days, not 45. I’m on my 10th business day waiting, so I am well within the limit, but their tracking service still says “Shipment submitted” and nothing else. And I paid extra for a tracking number!
It really makes me appreciate the services we take for granted in the United States.
Thats exactly what I am saying. I didnt buy tracking for that exact reason also. It is so inconsistent with international shipping that its not worth it. Most of the time it doesnt update until the day after it arrives. They dont care to scan stuff, this isnt the USA so no one gives any cares. Thats also why im done with cheap international sellers, they just dont care anymore or ever.
Website says one thing but their CS always says something else. It cant be both, so one is a lie. Which one is a lie……id put money on it being the PR CS reps here….
Don’t ever use the seller’s tracking. I put all my tracking numbers in 17track then save the page as favourite in the browser. When I want to check on the packages I quickly load the page with all the numbers already in it. As for Gearbest’s tracking, it has never worked for me.
Been EDC'ing mine since I got it. Really like it. The button isn't hard to press on mine. I would like to figure out how to open up the switch for future maintenance purposes. Looks like it may be threaded into the tail cap but don't want to take pliers to it yet.
Still waiting for my other 5 would show up. 2 were shipped at the same time as the one I received.
Just opened it up(needed to center the led anyway) and did some investigations inside. There is a sensing resistor and it is despite it looked like a r50 a r500 0603, I replaced it with a R300 0805 and there is not much space. I tested the driver at 1.2V and it had 0.64A stock but it is hard to reduce the resistor because there is somewhere a fast jump or so to 2A, I now got around 1.3A@1.2V.
There is no thermal paste under the star and I guess the spring under the pill, the driver spring and switch spring aren’t made for high current so I wouldn’t recommend doing it…
I will play a bit with it when it gets dark.
The dome of the LEDs is also a bit abused, I guess because of the bad centering it had. Maybe I replace it with another led later.
Well, I just got my Efest 10440’s yesterday and it looks like it makes the light about twice as bright. It makes the already nice beam even better because the extra brightness brings out more fullness in the beam as well as a smoother spot to spill transition. As Gj pointed out, the light does get hot fairly quickly. If I were to wish for a couple of things I would like the light to have it would be this. Multiple modes so you could still have the brightness of lithium on tap, but still have the lower modes for cooler extended runtimes. Thicker tailcap threads, it’s too thin, you could easily cross thread the cap if your not careful. A pill that is connected to the body to sink the heat better. A stronger clip would be nice too. I know you can’t ask for the world for a $6.00 light, but it would be nice.
Really sorry for the shipping issue here disturbed everyone, we have progressed our shippment manner as you know and in this groupbuy, most of the shipping use HKPost, it is fast to ship to most of the countries but this is not absolute, to some countries it may be a little slow or sometimes it also comes slow in the fast countries. We will ensure to ship the orders (sometime we have no stocking we’ll email you to notice it) but after the ship it is the bussiness of logistics. And the tracking information on our website updated by couriers and it usually not update everytime for your tracking information, we recommend you to check your tracking information on other site (such as 17tracks) if you have your tracking number.
As our website has noticed it and I must notice here again, all estimated/typical delivery time are derived from real world data collected from past orders. They are approximate times for reference only. Shipping time will be affected during pulic hollidays, manufacturers and couriers will limit their operations at these times. This is outside our controll. Normal service resumes immediately after each hollidays.
For the issue of our refundment it was said ussually the pack will arrive in about 30 days but sometimes, unfortunately it may be late for longer time, so we estimate a limit as about 45 days to accept the refund if you still haven’t received the pack.
I’m really sorry for those who still have not recieved the light here, if you would like to PM me your order number, I can check it for you and do something for you maybe, and we’ll try our best to progress the shippment with your feedbacks here, thanks all the supporting here.
Received mine today and about half an hour later my AAA eneloops arrived, perfect timing . I’m surprised by how flawless the finish is on these, great quality for such a low price. The NW is VERY warm, lucky I got a CW as well.