Re: New Lifestyle-Fascination lights
My general opinion of Lifestyles is that the flashlights themselves are on the whole *OK* . Not amazing, not poor, but generally perfectly respectable. However, the folks writing the descriptions for LF`s catalog and web site obviously know very little about them, and seem willing to just blindly copy chunks of data-sheets and promotional material, adding a bit of fizz and sparkle here and there to jazz things up for the general public. I can`t really blame them, it lokos like they have to write a lot of copy for a lot of different products, and no-one can be expected to know everything about everything can they? Hence, a light that`s OK will frequently be made out to be something absolutely amazing, and when in reality it turns out to be just OK, dissapointment frequently results, at least among this community of the more en-light-ened ( /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif ).
The handful of things I have bought from them have been fairly good, but were over-hyped and in most cases a little overpriced.
Their other fall-down point is their shipping. It took two months and two failed attempts by FedUpx for my last purchase to finally arrive - due to a f***-up with my address by LF. Previous purchases took a little while, but not excessive bearing in mind my overseas location. There have been several reports from other LF customers of slow shipping and non-responsive customer service, despite paying premium for quick shipping or making several attempts to get in touch with them, for example.
I will probably make another purchase from them one day, but I`ll spend a while looking round for alternative, better places to buy from first. I prefer to support dealers who`re honest about their products!
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