Supbeam X60 Group Buy - Interest and Discussion Thread - Dangerous problem discovered!

Sell your gorgeous looking X40! :smiley: :smiley: Just kidding.

At least we have a heads-up before the announcement to prepare if we want one. The other pricey GB’s often leave people scrambling before they are sold out. Thats not fair for the people with limited budgets, and everyone should have at least one killer high-end lumen monster in their collection. I know of at least 2 buyers that might want to buy several of these, so I suspect this sale might not last long.

My advice is to scramble now for the cash. When the deal goes down and if you decide not to buy, you’ll have enough to take your date/wife/mistress/concubine/escort/other, out to a nice memorable dinner and reap other rewards. You just wont be able to post about your experiences here. :smiley: Besides, a small EDC would be more practical during such occasions. :bigsmile: :smiley:

depend on the price I might be interested…but I wonder if this light will be able to beat Supernight 12 XM-L2 LEDs 7000+ lumens (stock) for less than $ 70 :~

Are they going to be sold with batteries included in the deal? or perhaps 2 deals, one with batteries and one without?

I’m interested as well, if the price is right.

If the discount is near enough to 50% I’m interested.

These are two completely different lights of extremely different quality, features and beam profile. Then there’s the factory warranty on the X60 to consider. Read the reviews and consider your budget before you decide.

Because of the 1.5 kg weight of the package, shipping is a large part of the price for this light. Adding 6 batteries would have pushed it into another weight category, which busted the deal… and that was while calculating total costs on 2600 mah cells. Considering what I pay for Sanyo UR18650FM and ZT, I couldnt justify the price. So instead, we are focusing strictly on providing the lowest possible delivered price without cells. We should know more soon.

I will never do business with Supbeam, Acebeam or whatever they want to call themselves after the K50 GB disaster.
Beam me out!!! |(

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I’m interested for sure. I have always wanted a X60, but the price stopped me from buying one. Thanks!

$300 at sbflashlights with no batteries and $390 at hkequipment with 6 2600mah batteries. Better be a big discount for me to buy.

I’m expecting $150, but I wouldn’t be in for more than $100.

Im still waiting for the X40 GB light to arrive, and worried about the miss-matched anodized parts like the K50 GB issues. Besides i’m over budget on my Lights buying for this year now. I have to pass on this one. ( also i have the OL custom triple MT-G2 light that is similar sized to this.

If you have a K50 you are interested in selling, please PM me, thanks.

I own 3 supbeam lights and never had an issue with any of them. For anyone who says supbeam is bad after the K50 is just butt hurt. Supbeam said to ship them back (to canada mind you) and theyd refund full cost OR resend an acebam one with a FREE L10. If that doesnt say opps we effd up but we will fix it then idk what does.

GET OVER THE K50 MISHAP AND MOVE ON! NO NEED TO CONTINUE TO BEAT A DEAD HORSE ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARENT JOINING THIS ONE! Pull up your pants and get over your butt hurt syndrome.

Depends on the price of course!! Consider the x60m would be better!

In depending on price

Hoorah for owning three Supbeams… I love it when people assume what I am thinking, feeling, emotions… I never said I was “butt hurt”… nope…
I personally think badly of Sup/Acebeam, you think they are great… GREAT!!! Glad you are ok with substandard quality. I don’t tolerate that business practice.
Should have never happened, that’s the bottom line. But I’m ok with your belief that companies are cool with knowingly sending out poor products and then a “my bad” makes it all good again.
I am simply posting here because there just might be “another buyer of higher standards” that didnt catch the crap that happened.
And my pants are down and I am livinloud 8)
Peace

Interested assuming price is good

Interested but final price dictate.

This isnt personal, but to dispel some concerns and lay it all out in the open for the benefit of others, Im going to explain a few things. It was their first experience with a GB and direct sales. Thanks to OL’s hard work, we all got a well negotiated killer deal on a incredible powerhouse light. Several examples had a finish mismatch on the anodized parts, which the company offered to correct at their great expense while also providing an additional gift light for your hassle to allow them to make good on their error. So, you ship the light back and they either refund your money or send you a brand new K50 light along with another small decent gift light. They pay shipping. With 8 complete discharge cycles on mine so far, I love my K50 and cant believe we got such a complete kit at the GB price. There is nothing at this price that compares to the overall package of what you get in the K50 GB kit, present or past. Same with the X40 GB and now the same with the X60 GB.

Nothing in this world is perfect, but its nice that when things do go wrong that a Chinese manufacturer will actually stand behind its product, even while at great expense to themselves to correct the problem. Sorry, but Im definitely in the crowd that appreciates this level of highly atypical service from across the pond.

Ive been in this game for a long time and this is me giving back to this forum in some small way. My X60 sample is on its way regardless so they paid me up front, and I doubt they are going to risk their company by not doing as they had promised. All eyes are here watching. Their management staff and owner are watching these threads and are in receipt of my (and our) direct communications and lengthy suggestions in how to help improve their product and are now in the production area cracking the whip and managing their people. I can tell you that they are very angry at themselves for the color mismatch on the K50 and are listening intently to all of our suggestions. When my X60 arrives, we will tear it apart together and go from there. If its crap, I’ll be the first one to say so, and tell you not to waste your money and take your babe out for a great night on the town. Acebeam knows this because I told them flat out that the success of their company is actually more hinged in these discounted products (because of a simple name change) rather than their present re-branded product line… and they darn well know it.

The careful execution of X40 GB is the product of lessons learned from the K50 GB. Subsequently, all the X40 lights were unpacked from their boxes and reinspected again before shipping to assure that the customer would get a superior product. The same is now being done with the X60.

This company is a massive large volume CNC mill with serious high end production potential. Now that they know who purchases a large volume of their products and tears the guts out of them to eek a few percent more performance from them, they will be following along with us with even more interest to gain an advantage over their competition. Lessons learned here trickle down to them, which improves the product and drives the technology forward. As a group of flashaholics and with our combined buying power, we rock like no other… but we all know that already. :smiley:

If you want to see expensive crap fit for a scrap yard, go buy a new GM product, then go sit in their waiting room to have it serviced. If you’d really like to learn something, bring along your sleeping bag and hang out there for several days and tell me how many satisfied customers talk kindly about their new multi-thousand dollar investments, lack of service and denial of poor engineering that went into their product. I know because I own one, and so does my attorney, CPA and several others I know personally. Been there, done that. Then go by a Honda and repeat (which I have also done). Its like buying a Crapfire versus one of the BG lights I just mentioned.

I’ll step off my soap box now, and again this wasn’t personal. :8) Thanks for reading.