Thanks for your comments and making this thread as valuable info to many others who are concidering BikeRay lights.
I agree that I made it too simple comparison to car dealer thing. Sorry for that.
I guess what I tried was to indicate buying a chevy but asking to have ford powertrain....lol.
Yes, there are many products that are compatiable to other products, not only on bicycle lights. As you said, not all are but maybe some do.
We do offer Ray-I & II light heads only. But not on Ray-III or IV., at least not yet.
Why Geoman is offering light heads of Ray-III~? Because he purchased light heads only from BikeRay manufacture. After what happended to him with low quality MS batteries & chargers,,,,,I don't blame him on that.
There are many, many manufactures of batteries with many different quality and price range. No argument on Japanese or German qualities are one of best you can buy with money. However, there are many other companies who are not too behind with lower profit margin than others., yet keeping their quality high.
And Mr Cat Man, yes we are offering "Y" connectors for 2 lights. But that doesn't mean you have to use Ray lights only. As you said, few other companies share same connectors because they are simpler to use, and bastly available even from RadioShack.
I totally agree forums purpose is 2 way dialog than anouncements. And that is reason why we are coming to mtbr. Sometimes we get hammered, but that is part of life isn't it~?
If customers can not get from us, because we are hard headed or something, I agree that I probably do samething.
What I am trying to say here is, we will do for our product within our capacity and for market demand. Not because few of commentators asks for it, even they never bought one., As manufacture & distributors point of view, we need to see the actual required volume, initial investment needed, turn around time, etc. A lot of times, to make something that will be marketed at $1, requires initial investment of $5,000 or even more. Do we have market for 5000 units or more~? These things require a lot of time investment and many studies to make right decision.
Original intension of producing "Y" connectors were not to sell individual light heads. Do we make more money by selling as a kit~? I must say NO. We will make more money if we sell individually, just like car parts or anyother parts deal. We actually make much less money by offering as a kit.
Just as .... who will need a nice case or nice gift wraps~? not many. But we must make them to sell what we have to offer. And that is translated as extra cost. We try to keep things to minimum level, to save on unneccessary costs., and that translates into better pricing and savings on customers end.
WOW~!
I am sorry again. I guess I talked too much and probably will cause more attacks.....
Please, we are not here to kill someone or make any false arguments etc
We will offer whatever we can within our capacity. Just like the "Y" connector, we invested significant amount of money to produce this simple divice. Will we ever get investment out of this unit~? I don't think so.
Whole intention of it was to provide extra manageability of Ray lights and the batteries for Ray light customers to have tail lights operating with same battery pack. Well, we haven't finished making tail light yet.....lol.
Well, hopefully I made some of questions cleared. Forums can be friendly, if we try. But it also can be deadly by simply misunderstandings~!
Anyway, thank you guys and hope to serve you better in very near future.