[EU] Free Cometa with BLF A6 or ThorFire TG06S

Even the BLF A6 is now on back-order. The funny part, I already got my 0,78 ā‚¬ cashback for this order.

Guys, just wait some time.
I will update if anything changes.

They havenā€™t been shipped yet but BG already sent a mail to review them :person_facepalming:

Do you know from which country do they ship those flashlights?

I ordered BLF A6 and Cometa and itā€™s also on Back Order for me, even though it was available when I ordered it. Iā€™m not sure but I think the Cometa was available from a UK warehouse.

Now you are coming to the funny bits :innocent: all incl. insurance.

If the TG06S is ordered from the Chinese warehouse, it will cost me ā‚¬ 8.94
If the TG06S was ordered form the EU warehouse (UK), it would cost me ā‚¬12.26
The TG06S plus free GIFT I ordered from the EU warehouse has cost me ā‚¬13.69

And Iā€™ve read in another thread that there will be no partial refund if the order is split up and partial cancelled, because the cancelled part of the order AKA THE GIFT was FREE :person_facepalming:

EDIT: Hmā€¦, the text above was so clear that even I got the message :wink:
So I ordered the ThorFire from CN, and cancelled the ThorFire plus free GIFT from UK.
Interesting part: I could not resist myself and thought, what if I repurchase the order I just cancelled.
Well for one, there was no free Cometa included in the repurchase. QED.

This reminds me of former deals within car parts where expensive tuning parts were ā€œgiven awayā€ if the MOQ was high enough. Apparently nobody got these extra deals except a few fake accounts on forums the sellers created :smiley:
Interesting way to boost sales in a down periodā€¦

However, we shall wait and see and not judge prematurelyā€¦ maybe weā€™ll see the gift.

I hope we will see all of our flashlights.

I saw a good deal and decided to share it. I hope I wasnā€™t wrong doing thisā€¦

Nothing wrong in sharing deals - nobody can know what sellers in Asia or eBay are up to. This specific scenario is a bit odd because free gifts can not be enforced via a chargeback or PP.
But we have good community reps on here and I am sure they donā€™t want to destroy any potential business. I really believe BLF members spend an extraordinary amount of money per month across all large China shippers. That should mean something.

You were not wrong. You focussed our attention to a deal offered by a seller. Kudos for that.
I pushed all buttons myself. Canā€™t blame you for that.

Most people were interested in the Cometa and accepted the Thorfire or the A6 as ā€œcollateral damageā€.
With me it was the other way around. Amazon never offered a nice deal on a ThorFire with shipping to Europe.
Only today I found out that BG offered the TG06S in a good deal from the CN warehouse, so I bought that one and cancelled the gift-deal with the Cometa.

EDIT: got an email saying the ā€œThorFire onlyā€ was shipped, 10 hours after ordering (yes I know itā€™s CNY).

Iā€™m not so sure about that since the A6 alone, without the ā€œfree giftā€ is cheaper than the one with the ā€œfree giftā€, paypal isnā€™t stupid.

Iā€™m sure theyā€™d side with a loyal PP user vs an asian wholesaler who gets multiple chargebacks (for valid reasons) a day.

You are right, PP have extended buyer protection in recent time. Especially for intangible goods and digital items as well.

No, you were not wrong doing this, I for one enjoyed getting this deal, (now canceled) thank you.

And let me try to explain my position.
I like good deals that is why I jumped in,
now, I donā€™t need a 3rd A6 or a free Cometa.
But what I need least of all is the felling that banggood screwed me over.

This feeling is hard to shake and I am having a good/lucky run with banggood ATM.
(my last 3 orders placed 3 days ago shipped within hours :slight_smile: )

It seems to me, after a live chat session, that their system does not support this kind of offers.
-They cannot put an order on ā€˜holdā€™ or ā€˜do not shipā€™ or ā€˜do not splitā€™ status.

- The system will automatically split and ship after a few days, no way around it.

  • No refund for gift items.

I too hope you guys get all your flashlights.

Not that i can see, i ordered a couple of A6s after seeing your post and appreciate the heads up. Thanks :slight_smile:
I can see why a combination of Serliteā€™s post and the back order status have got people worried but as it stands thereā€™s nothing different about this order for me yet then other orders iā€™ve placed with Chinese sellers, iā€™ve had stuff go on back order before, and i have experienced long processing delays without any indication as to why, but have always received the order eventually. Tbone gives a nice explanation here: Buyer Beware: "Gift" Items on Banggood.com - #20 by TBone of why this might happen which makes sense to me.

If there is an issue with the free gifts being cancelled iā€™ll deal with it when it happens, the only indication of this though is Serliteā€™s post and while thatā€™s a cr*p thing to happen to him, and while i think heā€™s right to share his experience, one swallow doesnā€™t make a spring. (In fact iā€™m surprised that anyone believes that any number of swallows could make a spring, if there was going to be bird with any kind of metalworking potential itā€™d be the magpie.)

Until now I had one processing and one back order.
Now itā€™s both processing.
So there is some change.

Both still in one order changed from back order to processing.

I just contacted with BG on a live chat. They said that both of my items (A6 + Cometa) will be shipped within 48h. He said that both items are in stock. Letā€™s hope thatā€™s true.

My A6 + Cometa are still on back-order.

Same here

My thorfire + cometa show up as ā€œprocessingā€ā€¦ Letā€™s hope they do both ship, or this might be my last banggood purchase. Most ebay and chinese sellers are decent. Letā€™s hope this is not a big scam.

But all good deals are welcome to be posted on BLF, so thanks for that XXX man.