Has anyone seen or heard from MEM?

This thread is to inform all members that I may have gotten scammed by a member here on blf by the name of MEM.
He posted this for sale thread:

He was selling some modded olight m3xs-ut.
If anyone else purchased one, how did the transaction go?

I paypaled MEM on Jun. 1 and still have not received my light. We had a few other messages going back and forth, mainly him trying to sell me some more lights….especially aspherics. I was not interested and that was when things started going down hill.
Days went by and no light, I messaged him and he said, sorry, I thought I messaged you back but he was waiting for the new drivers. I said no worries, just keep me updated.

Now another 8 days go by with no response, he finally messages back on Jun. 20 and says your light will be shipped out tomorrow.
And so from Jun 20, till now, I have been messaging him just asking if my light has been shipped yet, but no response. I have been completely patient and really dislike starting a thread like this, but I even told him, please give me a reply, because if not, I will have to start a Warning thread about you.

My question to fellow members, what do you guys all suppose I should do next?
UPDATE Light has been recieved* For details and a quick and snappy review, go to post #64.

You are on the right track for the above thread.

If some people bought too and received theirs, or did not, then that will at least put some pieces to the puzzle.

You do realize you bought a custom modded/limited run light?
Patience, MEM is new to the group buy thing (as far as I know) and also a very knowledgeable modder and member here at BLF (I beleive he is know as the inventor of the reflective aperture around here). That being said. I can’t vouch for his honesty and quick turn around of purchases.

I have confidence he will make it right and you will enjoy your new light soon.

Quick, he is not.

It’s not July yet. I’d advise patience before starting a thread with a title like this one. Please don’t plague the forum so early in the process. If you have an issue then try every other avenue including a paypal claim first. This is a two way street you are on, if it becomes known that you are someone without patience then it’s possible you will be excluded from other opportunities. This is not a threat but a reality. I’m not defending MEM but you should remember that most group buys are done as a favor to the forum by either one member or in the case of custom designs several members for little or no compensation and even the simplest ones get overrun with complaints, impatience and demands for action.

Feels premature. Certainly way too early for “scammer” in the thread title, imho.
It’s a custom light. And only 7 days after he expected to have it mailed. Delays do not equal scammer.

If I were you I’d change the title and OP
Hr may not have many posts but seem very knowledgeable and you write he is going to put in a new driver and those things take time

Hey mate look him up on CPF? He sells lights there? You should be able to find out if he is legit!

That suits your trolling perfectly.

I have to agree with The Miller here. Sure you have a right to be upset about the lack of communication but the thread title is a little harsh. I don’t know him personally but we’ve had some good conversations via PM and the guy really knows his stuff. Also worth noting that a few of those PMs went like a month before he responded. Many of those messages indicated that he was very busy and travelling a lot on business. I get your frustration but I’d probably change the title. Your call of course. I hope this all gets resolved.

Hopefully MEM will personally chime in here and solve OP issue when he comes back. Seems like he has not logged in for about a week now…

I think there is a need for a place for such comments and posted my suggestion in the rudeness thread but basically it’s just having a “reviews” link in the op of sales/GB threads so that others(including the op author) can see whether there’s a pattern of action or inaction. Some guys take awhile to figure this stuff out. They need feedback and while it should be easy to access it doesn’t have to be front page news.

I should have a tricked out D80 from him soon and will be posting beamshots and outputs when that happens. :wink:

I’m right here guys, I have been gone for 1 week.

Blueballs, I messaged you, and I am sorry that you feel I am scammer. I can certainly refund you at any time if you ask me to, as with any customers who haven’t received something.

Also extremely sorry that I was gone. I was supposed to be done traveling for the summer. :person_facepalming:

I do compensate for things like this that are my fault. Well, I try my best to do a lot better than Gearbest does to understand problems, anyways. :wink:

For the record, I will hopefully have time tomorrow, but will definitely have time Thursday of this week to make shipments.

Sharpie,

You are clearly someone who has great issue with me being here. I am not sure what your problem is with what I have done while being here, but it sounds like you are not fond of me posting here simply because you cannot always comprehend the technical subjects which I am trying to convey as best I can. You have never sent me a single private message that I can recall. If a member does not understand something another member has written, the general and polite way that they can solve their problems is via direct communication with the author. Name calling of the subjects because they simply aren’t worded the way you can understand them is a zero progress game. When school math classes become challenging, I can assure you that writing slanders at the book author as graffiti in the book, still will not help you to learn the mathematics.

You have said things above that I have never said or made claim to before. I have completely described tint shift, as have many others here. In the thread about dedoming, I am not sure how anything I added was any less productive than the next person. If I am doing something special that I would like to keep my own secret, I feel that is my right to do. It is every bit your right to make something your secret, or figure it out, and show the world that you did. If I make a claim like dedoming the XP-G3, many wouldn’t believe it without vision, therefore I provided a complete video to support it. For example, here are two separate videos I made for the forum supporting it; XP-G3 and XP-L V6: MEM Dedomes Cree XP-G3 S5 3A on Vimeo and XP-L V6: MEM Dedomes Cree XP-L V6 0D LED - Timelapse on Vimeo The next time that I write a technical post, you are more than welcome to message me if you do not understand the subject and you would like to. I can only go as far as to try to help, the rest is up to you.

Great post MEM
When a member who has profound knowledge about the flashlight workings is offline for a longer period of time I sometimes get a bit worried,
Now with this OP i did get worried all was well but I am not in a position or had a specific question for you to justify a PM.
Glad you responded man! Thanks.

Hi guys, please discuss the issues at hand, but keep it civil.

Happy and glad to see you back MEM! I apolize for jumping the gun and thought you could have possibly scammed me. But I felt like I lost communication with you. The first 2 weeks , we had frequent messaging. In the one month span, there was a previous time where you didn’t respond to any of my messages for 8 days, and even then, I didn’t think for one bit, that I was getting scammed. Because I can see that you were still visiting blf.

But this last time, It was a bit different. I messaged a number of times and even said this transaction is taking a bit longer than expected and if the light has not yet been shipped, I ll just take a refund. And so when I see that your last visited blf day was 5 days ago, I thought you jumped ship!

Well anyways, I’m sorry again and no hard feelings.

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(I beleive he is know as the inventor of the reflective aperture around here)

viperbart, I’ve never heard about that tech and google is no help. Could you elaborate on the subject or point to the discussion/info? Is it related to Wavien RLT?

MEM, next week when you read this message, I suggest you put a disclaimer in any sales thread you start, stating that communication is limited to poor. :stuck_out_tongue: I followed one thread of yours for a while only to realize that the updates were so spaced out that i could forget it for a month and not miss much. lol. blueb8lls may not have known this so I agree with the initial title of this thread given his experience. A disclaimer would reduce anxiety a lot. :slight_smile:

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