Price of the Jacob went back up to $10.## Also, as before, there was no check out button. Checked this morning.
Ok, after 3 emails, today I read this. Try to put the tracking on the website they give me, read this:
2014-11-07 09:12:02 SZX Shipment operation completed ęä½å®ę
2014-11-07 01:48:40 SZX Shipment arrived at facility 蓧ē©å°č¾¾ä½äøäøåæ
:bigsmile:
With Google translate, itās all ok, they have shipped the Jacob. So now must just wait the same old monthā¦
Mine arrived today. Says something with sky Net as shipping company and got delivered via dpdā¦
Fast shipping, excellent packaging, very nice deal. I saved the letter and label and will investigate a bit later if I have more time.
I canāt imagine that they always ship with such a company, because I guess it is expensive.
I wouldnāt have mind if it had took the normal month or longer for such a good price.
I just did a short check and the light is in good condition for a budgetlight.
No paper disc under the star. high mid strobe. Pulls around 1.5A@4V from powersupply.
This is my first a60 so I have no direct comparison.
P.S. They seem to have many plastic bagsā¦
WOW!
Butā¦have you choose āfree shippingā option or not?
Me too!
Well, will wait with less anxiety
Well some days ago I reported trying to get an order that finally seemed to complete: Anyone else have trouble with their order from Aurabuy?
Today I got a FedEx (not the method I chose!) package containing nothing I ordered and a couple of things I didnāt order.
The paperwork inside shows the right thing that I ordered ā but itās not there.
I left them feedback at their site, which curiously today only shows Chinese, I canāt get it to open in English now.
Who knows. Maybe some Customs officer took home the fuzzy slippers Iād purchased for the kids, and threw in some junk from his pockets before taping up the great big FedEx envelope and sending it to me.
:~ |(
Holy shit!
Take a photo/some shots and email them. If they want to keep you as a client, they have to refund o something else!
I hate this thing! :weary:
Iāve managed to send them messages through their website finally.
Upper right corner, there are some Chinese characters, click those, and it will switch to English (at least, today)
To send a message on their page about an order:
ā first guess the name that will work (ādd4ā works, āaurabuyā does not, thoā that is the seller for what I ordered)
ā name that id as a āfriendā
ā then you can send an internal message about an order.
Could not believe it as they kept sending me emails saying they didnāt have the right phone #.
Anyway, they still have the dirty lens but do not seem to have the paper disc under the star (at least on the one I took apart). Iāll check through the rest of them tomorrow.
First one worked fine for like 3 cycles then went dim.
So I started messing with it, ending up throwing out the stock driver and putting one out of the Ultrafire F13ās from OLās group buy a few months ago. I had resistor modded that one and it pulls 3.43 amps at the tail cap on high at start up settles around 3.2, so in it went with a used XM-L T6.
Cleaned the lens as best I could without having access to 0000 steel wool.
Braided the tail cap as well as the driver spring.
Had to use one of the thin butterfly spacers over the emitter from FastTech. Ground down the reflector bottom outside edge as it was wanting to short out the wires.
Turned out great, no rings and it still throws good, better than most C8ās and has nice spill.
Has really good thermal path as the head gets nice and warm, output holds well.
WARNING;
For whatever reason these Jacobās do weird things if you use a long cell. Even after changing the driver, I think it has to do with the battery tube being anodized and maybe the tube is not making good contact with the tail cap ring when using a long cell. I found that by taking the brass colored cap off the driver spring it helps with cell compatibility
After modding this one, it is not the lazer that the stock small die emitter is, but I have lotās of them to toy with.
I think the next mod is going to be a de-doomed XPL.
Anyway, hats off to Aurabuy, they did deliver.
Later,
Keith
:~
I hope that my work ok, Iām not into moddingā¦
Thisāll teach me to try to make the family laugh.
I figured, well, never heard of ādd4ā but Iāll see what I can find on their website and buy something and see.
That was my first mistake.
Well, I can always tell the story and see if yāall get a laugh out of it.
Starts with an attempt to be funny at home. What I ordered was three pairs of these, valued at 96 cents a pair:
http://www.dd4.com/goods/Convenient+Floor+Polishing+Dusting+Cleaning+Foot+Socks+Shoes+Slippers+-+Random+Color_691.html
(and it took multiple tries to get that, as their website repeatedly crashed and ended up with four copies of different attempts to create orders ā one of which, finally, I was able to pay for.
(Donāt everyone jump on that bargain, theyāre showing zero stock now, must have sold out.)
And the package delivered contains: two little metal knives, somewhat dinged up ā- with the paperwork for the three pair of slippers, and valued at $15 for Customs.
Customs opened and closed the package en route ā one of the labels on the outside is from Customs saying theyāll bill me if I owe anything.
So once I figured out how to send a message to ādd4ā I let them know ā both to cancel the bogus orders showing as unpaid, and that the one I paid for was mis-fulfilled.
The reply, with my order number right in the subject line, said:
āDue to the warehouse mistake, they only send you 3 shoes instead of 3 pairs of shoes. Now they wants to send you the others. But as the shoe is sent with random color, so they need to confirm the color of the shoe you received, so they can arrange shipment to send you the others. Please kindly advise us the color of the shoe you received ā¦ and the order number ā¦ā
I think theyāre pulling my leg.
But what the heck. I sent them photos of every label, and every scrawl on the outside of the envelope and on the outsides of the box inside the envelope.
And photos of the knives that were in the box, because they were somewhat dinged up, as delivered, anodization scraped in places, like theyād been stepped on or something.
Weāll see.
Offhand, if yāall want to buy something from what used to be Aurabuy, now DD4 ā let me know how it goes, here.
Big bargains, yup.
Jacob A60 for $5.47, free shipping: http://www.dd4.com/goods/Jacob+A60+Cree+Q5+3-Mode+310LM+White+LED+Flashlight+Torch+w%2F+Strap+Black+(1\*18650)_667.html
Donāt blame me if you try buying that and get fuzzy slippers instead, though.
Hank,
My wife and I could NOT stop laughing, reading about your shoe (note: singular) shipment :)!! Sorry!
Having said that, I just got my shipment of Jacob A60s from DD4, and it was FAST (from their U.S. warehouse). Hereās some pics:
Notice that they shipped theme priority mail :)!! And no, I didnāt pay extra (or anything) for the shipping.
And, hereās one of them:
And I was surprised that they came with a nice lanyard and attachment:
Iām guessing this place is selling odd lots and remainders.
The Jacob A60 link is dead, search finds nothing close on their website now.
Oh, you can get Sipik SK60 clones for uh $35 (!)
On the other hand, if youāve got a big battery pack, $211.38 for a streetlight: http://www.dd4.com/goods/LED+street+lighting_4295.html
Got mine today ... that was fast...very fast .
i had a bunch in my cart and mistakenly hit the refresh and lost them all. i went back and there were only three left ...Chibi M was right the phone number issue was i was putting the - in the phone number and ---'s were messing up and causing an error ..Crazy site but crazy cheap price ,crazy great light
A60 comes with plastic or alu reflector?
A question for the guys that have receved the light: are you old client of Aurabuy? Because for me that Iām not, the flashlight will arrive with standard shipping, the slowest. Iām just guessingā¦
Plastic reflector of decent, albeit not perfect quality.
Still need to grind off the plating on bottom edges if changing emitter star, ask me how I know
Later,
Keith
Never bought anything before from Aurabuy. I placed two orders for A60s. First one was credit card and got it Fedex express. Second order was placed on PayPal and has not been received. Both showed that they were shipped the same day. Will post when the second order arrives. Both were free shipping.
Typical free shipping from China runs 2 weeks to 10 weeks for me.
Second order showed up. Came first class mail from California. The A60 was in good shape. Came with another new DD4.COM mailer bag folded neatly in the box.
Ok, thank you very much.
My is in transit to hi destination. The same old month to waitā¦