Reminds me of unwrapping the most expensive christmas present under the tree, only to find it busted, and having to take it back, really ruins the whole experience.
But still a cpf'ers dream, you get to tweak on it and improve its performance.
Hopefully, given time, things will improve to the normal standards ya'll have come to expect from a premium flashlight.
Keep your chins up, I don't think Peter would tolerate a Yugo with his name on it. Sounds like the factory fix for the switch when folks are returning their flashlights has worked successfully, hopefully there is another nice clean/easy fix for the flicker a few folks have mentioned and the water that Nitnos was talking about getting into the flashlight. Hopefully the reflector defects are rare, and one of a kind.