1*AA light with true moonlight mode under $20

Ugh. I have a nice modded S15R. I held out as long as I could but couldn’t resist this. Had almost $5 in points so after adding $2 for tracking price was around $15 total. Yikes. I hope they don’t take too long to ship.

Don’t hope. They will.

Light looks nice, price looks even better… but I’ve heard horror stories about shipping from GB. Everything from an eternity to arrive or never arriving at all. Any validity to those stories?

checked and double checked! :bigsmile:

So are you saying it’s not worth the trouble?

Well. I’m sure there are tons of real horror stories, but I have received at least half a dozen deals (including 3 Olight) so far. While not ecstatic about speed of delivery or responsive customer service, I can’t fault the smoking deals. YMMV.

When dealing with GearBest, you have to ask yourself whether saving $5 is worth waiting an additional 3 months to get the light compared to other chinese sellers like BangGood and FastTech.

Not only that, but follow mhanlen’s advice in post #6 above. Get tracking.

My last two orders from GB arrived withing one month since payment. Maybe because I’ve payed for tracking, maybe I got lucky.
And FT had been almost as slow as GB for me

I would have to surmise that there is a thief or thieves that have regularly began to take advantage of Gear Best. I don’t know if it’s someone who picks up their parcels or who… I’ve had many items shipped without tracking from Banggood, Fast Tech, DX, Meritline, eBay, and other various sites from China. I’ve had one other order never show up- from Fasttech. They credited me. Gear Best also credited me recently for my July products that didn’t show up… as well as it seems other people too. So they do take care of the issue… eventually. They do ask you to wait quite some time though. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a shipping issue with this scope before. Anyway… I still do order stuff through them, and I have had olights show up… which are considerably more expensive, than the cheap knife and $4 USB voltage I lost. But I now get everything with tracking.

I’ve been buying from eBay, and DX since 2008 and i’ve had few packages that did not show up. I am confident that those sellers, even GB, sends out the packages to customers, the problem lies with the post office. Most of the packages that does arrive are small packages, though with tracking numbers, they still did not arrive. I don’t put the blame on the seller, instead i know that the post office is at fault (here in country, our postal service, especially the government owned, aren’t really that realible) and to guarantee that your package arrives is through express service, like DHL or FedEx and such, for a price, of course.

The problem is with the post office sorting the packages, small packages easily get lost in that way. But then again, there is always a risk in buying from overseas, just have to wait and see it the package arrives.

So if we take the s15 off the table, are there any other alternatives? I’d like to explore other alternatives of they exist. Again, simple modding is also an option for me.

The main reason I want to keep the cost as low as possible is because when it comes to flashlights I use for outdoor situations, I’ve got plenty and some don’t even see the light of day (or dark of night in this case) . So this really just becomes a toy to play with and maybe use around the house when I’m checking in on the baby. Even my 1 lumen mode on the EA41 is too bright for that job.

What’s the chances of the $18 GB Olight being a fake?

> fake?

Hmm. Does it say “100% Authentic” in the description?

My $22 s15 wasn’t fake. Neither was my $28 S1, both from Gear Best. This is not an unreasonable price, in fact well within line of Gear Bests recent olight offerings. I say the chance is very low. Or it’s the best fake I’ve ever seen. A lot of people have gotten in on those sales, and I’ve not heard of a single fake.

Wow! GB also has the S15R at $22.99
http://www.gearbest.com/led-flashlights/pp_112105.html

That S15R is out of stock and its not likely to ship to customers any time soon, they have been offering refunds for those who ordered S15R in recent week or so.

My S15R definitely is not fake lol.

Olight is clearing their stock of S15R(thats a fact, at least according to GB rep I talked with), probably to introduce S15R with XP-L in it, just my guess ;)!

After about a week of processing, I decided I didn’t need /want this anymore. Asked for a Paypal refund which was processed the next day. No harm. No foul.

I think a lot of people are in the same boat as you, at least I know I am. I don’t really need the light so shipping is the deal breaker. If it’s not (relatively) quick and cheap, then it’s usually not worth it. I wanted to jump on that S15, but with the shipping being a coin toss, it’s just not worth the trouble. My wife would be proud that I resisted the temptation for another AA light. :bigsmile:

More than the price you want to keep it under. L3 Illumination Good light from what I understand. :slight_smile: