Haven't got my V10A yet, but my V10R goes low enough to be able to look directly at the emitter with night adjusted eyes
Awesome. Really looking forward to getting this light!
Got my SA1 today. Wow, only 1 week to deliver :O I'm surprised. Here's my mini review and some thoughts. 100% Recommended light for 30 bucks and for a little bit more too :bigsmile: Thanks to DD and Summer :beer:
The V10A's price is even lower now with their site wide sale
$53.29
I have posted positive review one week ago, and still can't see it online :| If I'm not wrong, they say I should wait 24h 'till they revise it and post it on their webpage. So, the only thing that comes to mind is that all those reviews are fake.
Ya, why would they need to "revise" reviews in any case...?
Well, could be spam, wrong review or whatsoever. The thing is that they still doesn't post it on their web, and all other reviews looks... similar :~ and fake for me. My was like:
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All things well separated and so on. Can't find any other review like mine :|
That's a shame about their reviews. Did you get Dino points, at least? All of their reviews are fake. Why don't they realize that this doesn't help them? So far I have been happy with them (don't have the lights, but I have a package in the US at least), but the fraudulent reviews really bug me.
for this review problem, i think i have explained three times in this forum. We got some reviews from our suppliers, but these reviews are all the real reviews from their customers. We are organizing a review wikki, and all the review will be the real one with the pictures and the customers words there. And we will also welcome BLF members to join us.
Summer, the reviews are *fake*. You choose to post them, so you are posting fake reviews, no matter where you got them from. There are reviews of XM-L lights that say the people have used them for 3 years and that LED has only been around for 1 year. All of the reviews are very generic and always positive. Many customers might think they are legitimate positive reviews. The only conclusion is they are there to mislead customers. Do yourself a favor and get rid of them!
ok, thanks for your suggestion, we will update it as soon as possible. thanks
It cannot get more fake than that. Though I don't think that many customers will buy the fake reviews.
Come on guys, give Summer some credit, he´s putting a lot of effort to help us with this group buys.
Brted are your pictures still on their site ?
He's right, Summer. It gives you a bad name. Truly, no review is far better than a fake review.
+1. DX used to be very, well, let's say, selective about which reviews to post, which resulted in people posting positive and ultimately useless reviews for points. In essence, they sold out for 20 cents in DX points and everybody quickly caught on and turned to the forums for real reviews. (Just to clarify: to the best of my knowledge, DX never posted fake reviews; they just actively encouraged a certain favorable bias.)
DX eventually figured out that censoring reviews was a bad call. Real reviews are an asset. You may lose some sales because of a negative review (then again, you may lose a customer for life over a disappointing product with glowing and fake reviews), but in the long run, it all evens out. I know I've spent hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, to buy stuff - sight unseen - based on reviews from people I recognized and knew I could trust.
I've been impressed with Summer's efforts and DinoDirect so far (I haven't gotten my two orders yet, but I'm hopeful since others have and both show as shipped with tracking), so I'm not trying to dump on them. I just think the fake reviews are a terrible practice and I'm hopeful to hear they will get rid of them. If they could do that, I would even push for BLF getting rid of the "AVOID" label in Dealer Experiences.
I found the picture of my backyard on Dino's site. It is for the Uniquefire S10. At least they are using their own copy of the picture (not hotlinking to my website) and use a picture for the correct light (although my S10 burned out and I had converted it to direct drive; so it isn't entirely accurate).
http://www.dinodirect.com/uniquefire-led-flashlight-230lumen-6mode-cree-r2-s10.html
I have to applaud Summer's efforts here. The website "business" practices have to change, however.
DD would look more credible, with character thrown-in to the mix, if changes were made.
Consumers (especially here) are savvy, and intelligent in the West.
Many customers would purchase products at DD, if the website BS was cleaned-up.
I have to agreed with brted and don't think he is trying to dump on them :bigsmile: Those "reviews" don't help.
That's why I rarely bother with reviews on any of the Chinese flashlight sites. I just don't trust them. I like what Amazon did with the "Verified Amazon Purchase" tag at the top of reviews that were purchased from Amazon, and I trust that it's being placed correctly since you'll see it on negative and positive reviews. This gives you confidence you're most likely getting a genuine review since a transaction was actually made through Amazon. What can I say: They're the kings of online retailing and they deserve that title. Maybe that's why I'm so skeptical of these Chinese sites; the bar has been raised quite high.
But all that aside, the fake reviews at DD has turned me off to pursuing any purchases with them. I'd rather support the seemingly honest and open companies with my hard earned money and there's plenty of competition out there. I won't lower my standards or principles to save a buck or two. However, I'm willing to wait for DD to turn things around :)