Bestva Pro series, thoughts on these?

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My tents are only 900mm square, but my intention is to buy a bigger light than what I need and dial it down on a dimmer for better efficiency and greater led life. I'm sure these Chinese builds are pushed to their max.

I was all ready to press buy on a Bestva pro 4000. Like that they use Meanwell drivers, decent Samsung diodes and a good looking heatsink, with full spectrum LEDs including far red.

Having had a bit of a read around though, it seems like their customer service isn't the best. Mixed reports for sure...some talk of them not honouring warranties which worries me; I doubt PayPal has my back if this thing stops working two months in, and it's $459 USD. I can't rule out that it's competitor sabotage, it seems to happen a lot in this industry, but their Facebook page is a bit of a mess.

Thoughts? There seems to be little between the gold-plated lights out of my price range and Chinese ones that may or may not burn my house down. I'm scrogging & I want maximum yield from my reduced space - thanks to flu and working from home. I also need something that runs on 240VAC, and not everyone ships outside of USA, Canada & Europe.
 
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I see Kingbrite gets recommended a lot too and they're within my budget. That leaves some decisions to make though...which colour temp? So many to choose from.
 
karolanne

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ItsAllMedical said:
I looked at Mars Hydro & Spider Farmer too, but shipping costs to me are astronomical. Someone's selling TS3000 on DHgate for $240 USD, I gather this is a scam?
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Do not buy lights on DHgate or any other chinese websites: you're gonna end up with a cheap copy.

I have Mars Hydro Epistar at the moment. Very powerfull (I had to move it a little higher because the tip of my plants were burning). But for my other tent, I now think about a BESTVA. I read a lot of good reviews about it. And when you look at it and compare it to other lights, it really bright more. I think it's a good price/quality light. We will see...
 
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karolanne said:
Do not buy lights on DHgate or any other chinese websites: you're gonna end up with a cheap copy.

I have Mars Hydro Epistar at the moment. Very powerfull (I had to move it a little higher because the tip of my plants were burning). But for my other tent, I now think about a BESTVA. I read a lot of good reviews about it. And when you look at it and compare it to other lights, it really bright more. I think it's a good price/quality light. We will see...
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Thanks for that tip re knockoffs! Leaning towards a Kingbrite then. Bestva use quality parts or so it seems - I just don't like the reports of their customer service. Too many people saying that they stop replying to emails or haven't honoured warranties. Their Facebook page is a bit of a mess where they mock people who've been unpleasant in broken English. The reading I've done over the last few hours has put me off. Even a great product will have its duds; customer service is so important.
 
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ItsAllMedical said:
Thanks for that tip re knockoffs! Leaning towards a Kingbrite then. Bestva use quality parts or so it seems - I just don't like the reports of their customer service. Too many people saying that they stop replying to emails or haven't honoured warranties. Their Facebook page is a bit of a mess where they mock people who've been unpleasant in broken English. The reading I've done over the last few hours has put me off. Even a great product will have its duds; customer service is so important.
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I didn't know about their customer services. I'll look into it.

I got my Mars Hydro 30% OFF. I started by looking where I could order it, bookmarked some websites and had a look regularly and BAM! sales.
 
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Bestva has to be my personal favorite light review. I purchased a bestva light on Amazon a couple of years ago, based on the quality reviews the light received. I was at work and I got a text that my package had arrived with a picture of the package. There was items in the picture to allow me to get a scale of the size of the box. About 14" x 14", I was thinking that cannot be right. When I arrived home I found the size to be what was in the picture. I was like ok lets just give it a try. I hung the light and within a couple of days the stretch I was seeing from the plants trying to reach the light was obvious and I had no choice but to replace the light because it was no where near the power or quality it was advertised as having. I went ahead and send it back to Amazon and I wrote an accurate review of the light and how it performed. About a week later I received the first of numerous emails from Bestva. I quote, If you change your review to 5 stars you can keep the light and we will return your money. I kindly told them I would not do so and I would keep my review as it stood. They have contacted me about 5 to 8 times since trying to get me to change the review and I will not. If you think that is a quality light you are off your rocker. Bestva is the biggest rip off on the internet. They have nothing but fake reviews.
 
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Anthem said:
Bestva has to be my personal favorite light review. I purchased a bestva light on Amazon a couple of years ago, based on the quality reviews the light received. I was at work and I got a text that my package had arrived with a picture of the package. There was items in the picture to allow me to get a scale of the size of the box. About 14" x 14", I was thinking that cannot be right. When I arrived home I found the size to be what was in the picture. I was like ok lets just give it a try. I hung the light and within a couple of days the stretch I was seeing from the plants trying to reach the light was obvious and I had no choice but to replace the light because it was no where near the power or quality it was advertised as having. I went ahead and send it back to Amazon and I wrote an accurate review of the light and how it performed. About a week later I received the first of numerous emails from Bestva. I quote, If you change your review to 5 stars you can keep the light and we will return your money. I kindly told them I would not do so and I would keep my review as it stood. They have contacted me about 5 to 8 times since trying to get me to change the review and I will not. If you think that is a quality light you are off your rocker. Bestva is the biggest rip off on the internet. They have nothing but fake reviews.
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Thanks, that kind of confirms some of my suspicions. It seemed a bit good to be true. Note I only said the parts are quality; I've got no idea what the build is like. I know when I got my blurple light a few years ago it was very common for sellers to lie about their output. I got a partial refund on my Chinese light because it was advertised as 300w - not 300w equivalent - and only pulled 130w from the wall.
 
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ItsAllMedical said:
Thanks for that tip re knockoffs! Leaning towards a Kingbrite then. Bestva use quality parts or so it seems - I just don't like the reports of their customer service. Too many people saying that they stop replying to emails or haven't honoured warranties. Their Facebook page is a bit of a mess where they mock people who've been unpleasant in broken English. The reading I've done over the last few hours has put me off. Even a great product will have its duds; customer service is so important.
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You were right about their customer service. I went on their Facebook group and lot of people were complaining about it...
 
karolanne

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Anthem said:
Bestva has to be my personal favorite light review. I purchased a bestva light on Amazon a couple of years ago, based on the quality reviews the light received. I was at work and I got a text that my package had arrived with a picture of the package. There was items in the picture to allow me to get a scale of the size of the box. About 14" x 14", I was thinking that cannot be right. When I arrived home I found the size to be what was in the picture. I was like ok lets just give it a try. I hung the light and within a couple of days the stretch I was seeing from the plants trying to reach the light was obvious and I had no choice but to replace the light because it was no where near the power or quality it was advertised as having. I went ahead and send it back to Amazon and I wrote an accurate review of the light and how it performed. About a week later I received the first of numerous emails from Bestva. I quote, If you change your review to 5 stars you can keep the light and we will return your money. I kindly told them I would not do so and I would keep my review as it stood. They have contacted me about 5 to 8 times since trying to get me to change the review and I will not. If you think that is a quality light you are off your rocker. Bestva is the biggest rip off on the internet. They have nothing but fake reviews.
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What light would you suggest?
 
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