Keeping my fingers crossed that you receive some good news here soon! I don't want to hijack the thread or discussion. But I wanted to let the Tempest gang know that there is some light at the end of the tunnel on the USA orders. Don't lose hope. Especially with @Brenyo being THE man behind the scenes working his black magic, as he always seems to be doing. Dude is straight up mythical in my book. Like a unicorn among men. If there was a Yelp reviews for people, @Brenyo would get five stars with a 'would definitely hangout and love to sesh with' badgeI've got 978#, so I'm hoping for good news soon!
That's totally understandable. I'm beyond glad there's still a glimmer of hope. Fingers crossed and praying to the terp gods it all works out . I'm rooting for things to line up smoothly on your end!Oh shoot!! I was braced for having to cancel the order. I'm quite a few orders past yours, but now there's hope, maybe?
Haha, I totally get that. No worries at all, I've been doing the same deep dive detective work trying to make heads or tails of the situation. You're definitely not alone in this. I think there's a good chance it was sent via USPS, which would be amazing if that means dodging the crazy tariffs. Let's hope thats the case and it slides through smoothly!Oh man this gives me so much hope. I didn't want to bring it up again and ruin the conversion lol. I've been checking this thread, refreshing my email, and just scouring the internet in general looking for tariff updates to try and get information. Any idea if he shipped it USPS? That's the best bet right now. Seems like they're not even charging tariffs because they don't have the capability to but the other carriers are charging 145% and sending bills after the packages are delivered
I'm down to be a mail-order guinea pig at this point in time. If it survives the journey and doesn't explode, it's probably good to go. We all know @Brenyo packages are the bomb though.. The only thing I plan on blowing up is my lungs upon the T2s arrival

I have to piggy back off @RedZep reply and say definitely grab a wand at your earliest convenience. The ease of use and convenience of dropping the Tempest into the wand, hitting two buttons and letting the wand time out with repeatable and consistent results is just chefs kiss. It's like pairing the Tempest with a Reload. Yeah, you don't need the Reload. But damn do they (Tempest+Reload) go together like PB & J. Then you add the wand in the mix and its just a really great ecosystem with such little fuss from storing, loading, cooling, debowling, and needing less accessories should you choose to go on and adventure and not wanting to bring a torch out and would like to hit a couple buttons and get the same, if not more consistent results, every time. That's been my experience with the T1 so far. The torch is great, but I do prefer the wand I would say 90% of the time. That's just my experience with my T1sYou absolutely should get a Wand. Tempest 1 & 2 work amazingly with it.