FastTech is shutting down

Buy / Sell Budget Dealer Experiences
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Not sure if anyone else has been keeping an eye on this, but FastTech has now confirmed that they are ceasing operations.
This comes on the heels of a new tax imposed on e-cigarette products in China, which significantly impacts FastTech’s main revenue stream.

This is a bit sad for me, since they’ve been a great resource to me for all kinds of gadgets and textiles from China, including flashlights.
They certainly had overlap with other Chinese vendors, but I found their customer service to be relatively more responsive and accommodating.

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OMG! Why is China beating down their online businesses? First Alibaba and now this! I purchased so much from Fastech. Their photos of the product being shipped was something I never saw before.

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I like FastTech, though I haven't placed many orders from them.

They were one of the better Chinese web shops.

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That’s very unfortunate.
I’ve purchased many from Fasttech and their service was great.

5

Good news :+1:

6

Sorry to read that. Was one of the first stores on my go-to list.
More reliable than BG and GB, definitely cheaper and much faster.
Though last year the list of no more available items was growing fast.

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I noticed that most of the LED/flashlight stock was listed as out of stock. Shame as I also liked Fasttech.

Any alternatives people can recommend?

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The last year I bought stuff from Kaidomain. Speed etc. matches that of Fasttech.
They even listed and sold brass pills for Convoy S2+ after it got OOS with Fasttech.

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I had moved away from Banggood to Fasttech in the past year or so. The service, prices, and delivery were very good for what they are.

10

Quite sad.
Goodbye, Fasttech and my wishlist.

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Damned, that’s not good… :frowning:
Had many orders from them and even one defective Ultrafire U20S was replaced without hassle - except the long wait. :wink:

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Don’t think I’ve ever ordered direct from KD, I’ve some parts I ordered on AliExpress from LHT Flashlight Store, which I think is KD.

Gearbest gone, fasttech gone, I find prices on banggood quite high, I guess this is the beginning of end :stuck_out_tongue:

13

Bummer.

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That’s sad, I remember when they first opened and came here with a day one BLF coupon that is still active.

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What a shame. Kyle, the founder of FastTech, is a principled and honest guy, and he really did try to turn the company around when he came back into a position of leadership after taking a break. I guess that honesty and decency are not valued much in the business world anymore…

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That is too bad. Fasttech was the better Chinese store after Aliexpress. We still have kaidomain.com at least.

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Fasttech was the only Chinese seller I trusted, it was similar to dealing with an American retailer, dealing with the China dealers, in general, was terrible and bizarre for an old-school American.

A lot of us were introduced to a strange passive-aggressive resistance to correct things, make-good on things when we started buying from China dealers, behavior we had never seen from a store before.

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Darn. Not even a warning so we can make one last order.

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I started with Fast tech many years ago. It’s been a long time but I have many interesting purchases from there. Various modding bits and pieces. They will be missed.

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Bummer. I’ve bought many things from them over the years. I might say that they got me into the flashlight hobby.