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My order was placed on 12/21, with an extra fee for EMS shipping on "In Stock" items. I finally recieved confirmation of shipping last friday (01/02/09) along with a tracking number.
In the interim period between the order and "ship confirm" date, I Emailed regarding the lack of tracking info and was told "we no long have in stock, but we have buyer get for us soon". No biggie, mistakes happen. I decided on 1/6 to order from LED Shoppe to ensure I at least had SOMETHING to offer my customers this weekend, and guess what - here come the lasers from LED at 11AM today, in the middle of 12" of snow here in the upper Midwest.
To make a long story short, FINALLY about 10 minutes ago I was actually able to use the tracking ID from Focalprice on the EMS website, seems the shipment was actually posted at 20:40pm last night in China, and was only dispatched from their sorting center about an hour ago.
I'm assuming I'll have my "In Stock" order that I paid a considerable EMS shipping upgrade for somewhere between 2-3 weeks from the time of ordering, but I pretty much figure it's not worth holding my breath over.
Bottom line, there had better NOT be anything more than a 10% variation in actual tested power from their advertised outputs on ANY of the lasers I purchased, or they'll be going back. In the event (let's all guess how likely) that all 4 types of lasers I ordered are spot-on as to rated power, they still will never recieve another order from me.
Potatorage waited 2 weeks for his 500mW laser that ended up being a 100mW model with a huge mode-hopping problem from Focalprice - I wonder what I have to look forward to now! PLEASE - In the event that you can wait to order from these guys, please do until the quality of their product can be compared against their shipping procedures and then you can decide for yourself.
Just my 2 cents, caught in the middle of an "in stock" issue I can understand, and a "lied to" issue I can't forgive.
In the interim period between the order and "ship confirm" date, I Emailed regarding the lack of tracking info and was told "we no long have in stock, but we have buyer get for us soon". No biggie, mistakes happen. I decided on 1/6 to order from LED Shoppe to ensure I at least had SOMETHING to offer my customers this weekend, and guess what - here come the lasers from LED at 11AM today, in the middle of 12" of snow here in the upper Midwest.
To make a long story short, FINALLY about 10 minutes ago I was actually able to use the tracking ID from Focalprice on the EMS website, seems the shipment was actually posted at 20:40pm last night in China, and was only dispatched from their sorting center about an hour ago.
I'm assuming I'll have my "In Stock" order that I paid a considerable EMS shipping upgrade for somewhere between 2-3 weeks from the time of ordering, but I pretty much figure it's not worth holding my breath over.
Bottom line, there had better NOT be anything more than a 10% variation in actual tested power from their advertised outputs on ANY of the lasers I purchased, or they'll be going back. In the event (let's all guess how likely) that all 4 types of lasers I ordered are spot-on as to rated power, they still will never recieve another order from me.
Potatorage waited 2 weeks for his 500mW laser that ended up being a 100mW model with a huge mode-hopping problem from Focalprice - I wonder what I have to look forward to now! PLEASE - In the event that you can wait to order from these guys, please do until the quality of their product can be compared against their shipping procedures and then you can decide for yourself.
Just my 2 cents, caught in the middle of an "in stock" issue I can understand, and a "lied to" issue I can't forgive.