Nice. Sounds like a great guy. Thanks
Thanks. Sounds great. Did you do friends and family PayPal option for additional savings? I’m just worried of missing or damaged item. Won’t have it covered by pay pal
Have you had any issues with any of your lights from him? I’m just concerned if light comes or gets damaged or missing etc.
Same here. Fast response to info and questions. Clear answers.
Always trying as good as he can to make it right for you.
And one of the few sellers where the word warranty actually means something.
If you want to buy pimped light go for it. Waste of money if you ask me.
Mike
Any problem Vinh will take care of it. He’s here to stay so I don’t have a problem using f&f
June, 2015 is when I discovered Vinh, when I realized that my favorite US supplier would not be offering the Noctigon Meteor M43vn XP-L.
So, the first reason why I went with Vinh was his providing on-time wide variety of offerings.
2. Supply and support stateside, no months long slow boat to/from East Asia.
3. He does mods that I can't do: Boost and choice of alternative emitters, etc, etc.
4. Prompt, friendly attention to infrequent hiccups.
5. Prompt, friendly response via email.
6. Heartfelt, personable, spiritual presence on the forum.
Please see: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/58383 245 posts, 11,101 views in this forum.
And: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/54450 334 posts, in this forum. And others similar.
I am not sure about paypal specifics. You can email him and ask him.
And last, but eventually most, 7. After buying 26 lights from Vinh in the past four and a half years, and after lots of friendly, helpful and personable emails and one friendly, brief instant answer phone call, I consider him to be my very close to primary spiritual asset/spiritual connection in this phase of my life on the sometimes hostile surface of this earth, painfully impacted by evil people.
In general, I won’t do F&F. Vinh’s reputation and my own previous experience is that I would be comfortable making the exception.
Okay, great feedback. It’s clear he’s an honest, upstanding, caring, legit asset to our hobby. Thanks.
Actually, I have no idea what the friends & family is. I just used my normal PayPal.
If you choose f&f instead of “good and services” it’s a 3% savings but it doesn’t cover item if it doesn’t get shipped, is lost, or damaged etc. It leaves pay pal out in case there’s issues. With “goods and services” pay pal will refund your money etc.
So f&f is basically used if you really trust the seller etc. But even if you do, the seller still might not cover if it’s lost or damaged by the carrier etc.
PROS
-Responsive
-Backs up warranty
-Lights arrive in timely fashion
CONS
-Over priced
-Takes on too much[one man show] resulting in more mistakes
-Can Not handle constructive criticism
I say just buy the light with your regular PayPal until you are ready for friends and family. Once the relationship is established you will feel more comfortable. Unless the light you are purchasing is super expensive 3% really isn’t that much of a savings anyways.
I personally have bought multiple multiple lights from him and have only had good experiences.
Buy the light you want. You won’t regret it.
I'm a capable modder but reflowing one emitter isn't my forte' no less multiples. So I bought a D18 from Vinh with 219B's-no way I was gonna take that on. Took ~3 weeks but worth the wait. One emitter went dead and he sent me a return label within the hour, I sent it to him and had it back within a week.
Those 219's in multiple are something to behold! Wish Nichia or one of the others would do a high power, modern emitter with the same tint(s).
I would use Vinh again without reservation.
i never bought any of his lights either, i have no doubt he’ll makes things right if something goes wrong, and he sounds like a very nice guy, i just do not see much appeal in lights that you can’t leave unattended, can melt things, and driven to the absolute limit.
He is also a sponsor of the BLF Old Lumens contest, link in my sig.
Good fellow in my book and should be supported by the forum 
But most of what we deal with here you would never leave unattended, and the appeal *is* driving them to the limit. Nice to have that power in reserve if only to wow the muggles.
Look at it this way: Fly higher, faster and further!
Good point. That’s pretty much what most of the lights on this forum are doing. And exactly why I love this place!
My first purchase was an RRT01VN with triple 219b SW45K. It is pretty much the perfect EDC with regards to simple utility.
I was so happy with that one, I ordered his flagship design - the SLN with quad 219b SW45K drop in. It’s a beast but it rides on my toolbelt at work because when I have my tool pouch on I can’t reach my pocket.
When the light arrived, one of the emitters was bad. As soon as I told him he emailed me a return label. He fixed it and set the turbo to 1,400 lumens so that it wouldn’t cook the emitters again. He left it on for a full battery cycle to make absolutely sure it wouldn’t happen again.
He’s a really good guy and now I wouldn’t hesitate to use friends and family.
Skylumen is 100% GTG. Ordered several lights from him over the course of this last year never a problem, fast shipping, good Comunications.