Wonder if recent registered air packages heading to USA were all quarantined 14 days before they were carried by international flights. Ever since Aug. 30, 2021, our routine tracking shows that shipments reached USA on Sep. 15, 2021.
And orders we shipped out on Sep. 3 reached USA on Sep. 17, 2021. Post office staff told us that flights were reduced but it seems to me that they were grounded longer than usual. Daniel Sep. 19, 2021
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And orders we shipped out on Sep. 3 reached USA on Sep. 17, 2021. Post office staff told us that flights were reduced but it seems to me that they were grounded longer than usual. Daniel Sep. 19, 2021
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Please do not choose country that has cheaper setting while you gave all other shipping address in another country. For example, we received orders that gave us town in Nevada USA with country of Taiwan. That gave the buyer the choice of cheaper shipping fee. No matter you are return customer or not, we will cancel your order and refund. As PayPal changed their refund policy since March, 2021, we will deduct a 4.4% + US$0.30 non-refundable fee.
DO NOT choose wrong country or your order will be cancelled.
Daniel
Sep. 6, 2021
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DO NOT choose wrong country or your order will be cancelled.
Daniel
Sep. 6, 2021
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Very Important Messages for All USA customers:
Enough is enough. We are removing shipping options of $6 (unregistered air parcel, can not be tracked online) and $12 (registered air parcel, can not be tracked by you or me but USPS staff only). Reasons are simple. We are receiving more complaints about delay of delivery. Some took as long as 2 months which is ridiculous to us. We never try to hold customer's order and always do our best to ship out within a reasonable timely manner. We do have worse Covid-19 cases in past 2 months which might significantly decreased international flights from Taiwan to USA. Also it could be caused by USPS who increased the shipping fee drastically since March, 2021, but did not upgrade their service at the same time. So there will temporarily be 2 options for USA customers only: $23 registered air package and $46 FedEx shipping. Both can be tracked online (USPS site for $23 shipments and FedEx for $46 orders).
For those who want to order with cheaper shipping, ask us to confirm whether we CAN supply to you. If so, we will quote to you and will take your order only if you pay by "GIFT Payment". Yes, you can only trust us if you want to go cheaper method. We consider ourselves descent businessman and we ship all orders. We will no longer take the risks to be held responsible for the delivery issues.
Daniel July 1, 2021
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Enough is enough. We are removing shipping options of $6 (unregistered air parcel, can not be tracked online) and $12 (registered air parcel, can not be tracked by you or me but USPS staff only). Reasons are simple. We are receiving more complaints about delay of delivery. Some took as long as 2 months which is ridiculous to us. We never try to hold customer's order and always do our best to ship out within a reasonable timely manner. We do have worse Covid-19 cases in past 2 months which might significantly decreased international flights from Taiwan to USA. Also it could be caused by USPS who increased the shipping fee drastically since March, 2021, but did not upgrade their service at the same time. So there will temporarily be 2 options for USA customers only: $23 registered air package and $46 FedEx shipping. Both can be tracked online (USPS site for $23 shipments and FedEx for $46 orders).
For those who want to order with cheaper shipping, ask us to confirm whether we CAN supply to you. If so, we will quote to you and will take your order only if you pay by "GIFT Payment". Yes, you can only trust us if you want to go cheaper method. We consider ourselves descent businessman and we ship all orders. We will no longer take the risks to be held responsible for the delivery issues.
Daniel July 1, 2021
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Important announcement:
Local Covid-19 infection cases are getting worse in past 7 days, we are going to post office on Tuesdays and Fridays ONLY.
Daniel May 25, 2021
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As our Covid-19 local infection cases increased in past 3 days (May 15 - 180 cases, May 16 - 206 cases, May 17 - 333 cases), we will not go out shipping on Tuesdays and Thursday. Your orders will be shipped out on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only.
If necessary, we might consider to ship orders out only on Tuesdays and Fridays.
When the local pandemic condition gets better, we will get back to normal for shipping from Monday through Friday.
Please stay safe and get vaccinated ASAP.
Daniel May 17, 2021
Local Covid-19 infection cases are getting worse in past 7 days, we are going to post office on Tuesdays and Fridays ONLY.
Daniel May 25, 2021
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As our Covid-19 local infection cases increased in past 3 days (May 15 - 180 cases, May 16 - 206 cases, May 17 - 333 cases), we will not go out shipping on Tuesdays and Thursday. Your orders will be shipped out on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only.
If necessary, we might consider to ship orders out only on Tuesdays and Fridays.
When the local pandemic condition gets better, we will get back to normal for shipping from Monday through Friday.
Please stay safe and get vaccinated ASAP.
Daniel May 17, 2021
Thanks to Billy for this nice picture of his collections of Jeff Hanko's excellent flashlights.
Billy bought these tritium vials while they were still available and had them shipped to Jeff's shop for vial installation. I must say that I am very envious of Billy having these gorgeous flashlights.
Daniel Apr. 16, 2021
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Billy bought these tritium vials while they were still available and had them shipped to Jeff's shop for vial installation. I must say that I am very envious of Billy having these gorgeous flashlights.
Daniel Apr. 16, 2021
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Since Apr. 1, 2021, our post office adds a fee to many countries which they are charged on weight or measurement. Small air parcels are not added up too much which we can still absorb. But for EMS shipments, we had to adjust the shipping fee to cover this increase charged by airliners. Daniel Apr. 17, 2021
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VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ALL AMERICAN orders:
Shipping fee increase for all American orders from Mar. 5, 2021 onward. It will be a huge increase as our post office informs that USPS raise their fee drastically. They have to adjust accordingly.
$2 unregistered air parcel will be increased to $6.
$5 registered air parcel increased to $12
$10 registered packaged increased to $23
$28 EMS speed post increased to $38 (will remove this option as FedEx is $46 and goes much faster)
Daniel Feb. 6, 2021
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Shipping fee increase for all American orders from Mar. 5, 2021 onward. It will be a huge increase as our post office informs that USPS raise their fee drastically. They have to adjust accordingly.
$2 unregistered air parcel will be increased to $6.
$5 registered air parcel increased to $12
$10 registered packaged increased to $23
$28 EMS speed post increased to $38 (will remove this option as FedEx is $46 and goes much faster)
Daniel Feb. 6, 2021
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We are having quite some mails asking when we can re-stock a few sizes such as 1.5x6mm, 2x6mm, 3x11mm, 3x22.5mm vials...etc., let me clarify here. I do not have answer for you. So I hope all of you can understand why I did not reply to your questions. If there is any good news, I will announce here.
By the way, you can mail us (desther@ms1.hinet.netdesther@ms1.hinet.net) to ask for notification whenever we re-stock 1.5x6mm, 3x22.5mm or other sizes of vials. Please use title "Notify me when you get more 3x22.5mm vials" (change 3x22.5 to other sizes if needed).
I will collect all your mail addresses and notify you when we have good news for all of us :-) ........Daniel Jan. 3, 2021
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By the way, you can mail us (desther@ms1.hinet.netdesther@ms1.hinet.net) to ask for notification whenever we re-stock 1.5x6mm, 3x22.5mm or other sizes of vials. Please use title "Notify me when you get more 3x22.5mm vials" (change 3x22.5 to other sizes if needed).
I will collect all your mail addresses and notify you when we have good news for all of us :-) ........Daniel Jan. 3, 2021
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Our post office just announced that they will not offer service for all shipments heading to United Kingdom temporarily, effective from Dec. 28, 2020. As for how long this will last, we can only wait for their further notification.
Daniel Dec. 27, 2020
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Daniel Dec. 27, 2020
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Our tritium vial inventory condition is getting worse. We will reserve some of them for our key fobs and will sell key fob with tritium vial installed rather than selling just tritium vials. For some certain sizes which we do not have a housing for them remain the same until they are all gone.
Sizes like T0924 (0.9x2.4mm), T13 (0.95x3mm), T125G (1.2x5mm green), T1435G (1.4x3.5mm green), T1540G (1.5x4.0mm green), T1645G (1.6x4.5mm green), T2510 (2.5x10mm), T1.5x3x6G (rectangular vial), T1.5x3x9G, T1.5x3x16G, T1.5x3x24.5G, T1.5x3x25...etc.
I am very sorry that we are still waiting for good news from our supplier. However, it could be a long waiting.
Daniel Dec. 13, 2020
Sizes like T0924 (0.9x2.4mm), T13 (0.95x3mm), T125G (1.2x5mm green), T1435G (1.4x3.5mm green), T1540G (1.5x4.0mm green), T1645G (1.6x4.5mm green), T2510 (2.5x10mm), T1.5x3x6G (rectangular vial), T1.5x3x9G, T1.5x3x16G, T1.5x3x24.5G, T1.5x3x25...etc.
I am very sorry that we are still waiting for good news from our supplier. However, it could be a long waiting.
Daniel Dec. 13, 2020
Please note: We take US$ via PayPal only. If we asked you to pay a certain amount of US$ to cover either vials or shipping fee difference of upgrading shipping method, please DO NOT change the currency at PayPal to our local currency, NT$. If you change the currency to NT$, we WILL ask you again for another 5% of that US$ amount. It is roughly the exchange rate loss at our side.
Important notice:
PayPal has changed their refund policy lately. We have experienced that PayPal did not refund the handling fee like they did before. So whenever you ask us to cancel the order, we will deduct 4.4% + $0.30 fee from your order's amount.
For example, you ordered $45 and chose $5 shipping. We as the seller are charged by PayPal total $2.50 ($2.2 for the merchant, shipping and $0.30 PayPal fixed handling fee). So if you asked us to cancel such an order, we will deduct $2.50 and refund you $47.50 only.
Daniel Updated on Mar. 23, 2020
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PayPal has changed their refund policy lately. We have experienced that PayPal did not refund the handling fee like they did before. So whenever you ask us to cancel the order, we will deduct 4.4% + $0.30 fee from your order's amount.
For example, you ordered $45 and chose $5 shipping. We as the seller are charged by PayPal total $2.50 ($2.2 for the merchant, shipping and $0.30 PayPal fixed handling fee). So if you asked us to cancel such an order, we will deduct $2.50 and refund you $47.50 only.
Daniel Updated on Mar. 23, 2020
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Wish all of you stay safe and healthy in the crisis of Coronavirus outbreak. So far, the situation in Taiwan is quite OK as our government has done a great job since early January, 2020. We can still ship out the orders regularly. However, our post office announced that mails, parcels and packages heading to following countries are temporarily not available:
Countries announced by our post office that mails, parcels and packages are suspended temporarily:
America (continent, not country)：Canada、Ecuador、Venezuela、Paraguay、Colombia、Argentina、Guatemala、Peru、Uruguay、Panama、Honduras、Jamaica、Trinidad and Tobago、Bolivia、Mexico、El Salvador、Costa Rica、Dominican Rep.、Brazil、Chile、Nicaragua、Puerto Rico
Oceania：Guam、Hawaii、Australia (re-opened for EMS speed post on Jul. 10, 2020)、Nauru、Solomon Is.、Tahiti Is.、Fiji、Papua New Guinea
Europe：Cyprus、Ireland、Ukraine、Moldova、Malta、Belarus、Estonia、Luxembourg、Spain、Georgia、Greece、Hungary、Denmark、Italy、Finland、Iceland、Portugal、Slovenia、Norway、Latvia、Slovakia、Romanian、Bulgaria、Croatia、Lithuania、Russia、Austria、Serbia
Belgium、Czech Rep.、Sweden、 Switzerland、Poland (re-opened for EMS speed post on Jul. 22, 2020)
Asia：Qatar、Saudi Arabia、Lebanon、Kuwait、Pakistan、Kazakhstan、Iran、Jordan、Turkmenistan、Azerbaijan、Sri Lanka、Kyrgyzstan、Uzbekistan、India、Mongolia、Bangladesh、United Arab Emirates、Tajikistan、Oman、Bahrain、Brunei、Laos、Armenia、Turkey、Israel、Myanmar、Bhutan、Philippines
Africa：South Africa、Cameroon、Congo Dem. Rep.、Congo Rep.、Cote d’lvoire、Togo、Rwanda、Madagascar、Benin、Burundi、Ghana、Ethiopia、Egypt、Morocco、Tanzania、Sierra Leone、Nigeria、Kenya、Mauritius、Senegal
Daniel listed since Mar. 23, 2020
last updated on Jun. 14, 2020 (removed Germany from the list)
Australia - re-opened for EMS speed post only. Jul. 10, 2020
Belguim, Czech Rep. , Sweden, Switzerland, Poland -
re-opened for EMS speed post only. Jul. 27, 2020
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As passenger flights have been decreased significantly, all parcels may be handed to our post office within 24 hours mostly (except weekends), they could not hop onto an available flight in time. Recent tracking found one traceable $10 shipment was handed to our post office on Apr. 16, 2020, it ended up will take the flight on May 5, 2020. Please do not rush us as this is not what we can control. If you really need your order to be delivered faster, please choose FedEx option. Thanks. Daniel May 4, 2020
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For those who ordered and received our shipment notification, please kindly note that delivery may take longer than it used to be. It was 10-15 business days but due to the international flights decreased or cancelled, your shipment takes 15-25 business days to reach you now. Even FedEx informed us that their service takes slightly longer as well. Daniel updated on Apr. 22, 2020
Countries announced by our post office that mails, parcels and packages are suspended temporarily:
America (continent, not country)：Canada、Ecuador、Venezuela、Paraguay、Colombia、Argentina、Guatemala、Peru、Uruguay、Panama、Honduras、Jamaica、Trinidad and Tobago、Bolivia、Mexico、El Salvador、Costa Rica、Dominican Rep.、Brazil、Chile、Nicaragua、Puerto Rico
Oceania：Guam、Hawaii、Australia (re-opened for EMS speed post on Jul. 10, 2020)、Nauru、Solomon Is.、Tahiti Is.、Fiji、Papua New Guinea
Europe：Cyprus、Ireland、Ukraine、Moldova、Malta、Belarus、Estonia、Luxembourg、Spain、Georgia、Greece、Hungary、Denmark、Italy、Finland、Iceland、Portugal、Slovenia、Norway、Latvia、Slovakia、Romanian、Bulgaria、Croatia、Lithuania、Russia、Austria、Serbia
Belgium、Czech Rep.、Sweden、 Switzerland、Poland (re-opened for EMS speed post on Jul. 22, 2020)
Asia：Qatar、Saudi Arabia、Lebanon、Kuwait、Pakistan、Kazakhstan、Iran、Jordan、Turkmenistan、Azerbaijan、Sri Lanka、Kyrgyzstan、Uzbekistan、India、Mongolia、Bangladesh、United Arab Emirates、Tajikistan、Oman、Bahrain、Brunei、Laos、Armenia、Turkey、Israel、Myanmar、Bhutan、Philippines
Africa：South Africa、Cameroon、Congo Dem. Rep.、Congo Rep.、Cote d’lvoire、Togo、Rwanda、Madagascar、Benin、Burundi、Ghana、Ethiopia、Egypt、Morocco、Tanzania、Sierra Leone、Nigeria、Kenya、Mauritius、Senegal
Daniel listed since Mar. 23, 2020
last updated on Jun. 14, 2020 (removed Germany from the list)
Australia - re-opened for EMS speed post only. Jul. 10, 2020
Belguim, Czech Rep. , Sweden, Switzerland, Poland -
re-opened for EMS speed post only. Jul. 27, 2020
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As passenger flights have been decreased significantly, all parcels may be handed to our post office within 24 hours mostly (except weekends), they could not hop onto an available flight in time. Recent tracking found one traceable $10 shipment was handed to our post office on Apr. 16, 2020, it ended up will take the flight on May 5, 2020. Please do not rush us as this is not what we can control. If you really need your order to be delivered faster, please choose FedEx option. Thanks. Daniel May 4, 2020
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For those who ordered and received our shipment notification, please kindly note that delivery may take longer than it used to be. It was 10-15 business days but due to the international flights decreased or cancelled, your shipment takes 15-25 business days to reach you now. Even FedEx informed us that their service takes slightly longer as well. Daniel updated on Apr. 22, 2020
To: Australian customers
Our post office re-opened their service partially to take Australian shipments on Jul. 10, 2020. This is for EMS speed post service only. If you are in Australia and wish us to ship out without waiting, please consider to choose EMS speed post shipping option. Thanks.
Daniel Jul. 11, 2020
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Our post office re-opened their service partially to take Australian shipments on Jul. 10, 2020. This is for EMS speed post service only. If you are in Australia and wish us to ship out without waiting, please consider to choose EMS speed post shipping option. Thanks.
Daniel Jul. 11, 2020
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As recommended by Ethan's suggestion, we are moving the picture of the country list that our post office does not take shipment temporarily backward so main picture of the products can be seen instantly. DO check 2nd picture or this home page (lower area) to learn if your country is temporarily not available for us to ship to.
Thanks,
Daniel Jul. 3, 2020
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Thanks,
Daniel Jul. 3, 2020
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Recent tracking (for those use $10 and $28 shipping) show all parcels and packages heading USA take much longer than before. It took 10-15 business days before this Covid-19 pandemic. Now, it takes 20-30 BUSINESS days to reach you. That means many customers received an automatic mail sent from the system asking for review BEFORE they received their orders.
We did not cause this pandemic. Taiwan did a great job to have only 443 cases with 7 deaths so far. The outside world is much worse than this small island. The international passenger flights have been decreased a lot which cause the shipments 5-15 days to hop onto an available airplane. Many countries are not available such as Australia, Ireland, Germany..... till now. I have been receiving many complaints about not receiving their orders in time. I can understand how you feel but I would highly recommend these customers to use $10, $28 or FedEx shipping in the future. Former 2 options allow both of us to track online to understand how your shipments are being processed, or even asked USPS to notify both of us. FedEx shipment can reach you within 2-5 days even in this crazy Covid-19 pandemic.
Daniel Jun. 2, 2020
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We did not cause this pandemic. Taiwan did a great job to have only 443 cases with 7 deaths so far. The outside world is much worse than this small island. The international passenger flights have been decreased a lot which cause the shipments 5-15 days to hop onto an available airplane. Many countries are not available such as Australia, Ireland, Germany..... till now. I have been receiving many complaints about not receiving their orders in time. I can understand how you feel but I would highly recommend these customers to use $10, $28 or FedEx shipping in the future. Former 2 options allow both of us to track online to understand how your shipments are being processed, or even asked USPS to notify both of us. FedEx shipment can reach you within 2-5 days even in this crazy Covid-19 pandemic.
Daniel Jun. 2, 2020
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FedEx is the best shipping method we have ever experienced. Not only their employees are nice to deal with and very professional, they delivered promptly. Even during this tough Covid-19 pandemic for all the world to suffer, they delivered our customers' orders fast. Mails and parcels for Hawaii are not taken by our post office at the moment, FedEx still does their job professionally. For those countries our post office listed to be temporarily unsupported, please try to ask us a question whether FedEx supports. We will consult with FedEx and give you a quote of the shipping fee. Of course, FedEx delivers shipments with their own air cargo flights, it costs more for better and faster service.
Daniel May 9, 2020
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Daniel May 9, 2020
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Sorry that we are running out of stainless steel caps for SB3a key fobs, so we just zero the inventory and set it hidden. We will re-list this item once we get more S/S caps....Daniel Jan. 8, 2020
If you wish to track your shipment online, please choose $10 or $28 option. $5 option gives you a tracking number of RAxxxxxxxxxTW which can ONLY be tracked by staff of your local post office after we apply for tracking service with a paper form presented to our post office officially. And it takes time to get feedback. Although $2 and $5 (both NOT available for one country) can not be tracked online, they are still quite reliable. PLEASE kindly be notified and choose your shipping method carefully.
If you must add something to your previous order which we have not shipped out yet, please give us a note on your 2nd order especially when you are ordering twice with same items, quantities and colors. That gives us the impression of a possible error at your end by doing the ordering process twice as you thought your first attempt failed. We encountered this case before. So whatever identical order came in without any note will be treated as accidentally-released double order and be canceled and refunded from our side.
Thanks,
Daniel
Remark: Normally we ship out your order within 24 hours after our receipt of your order and payment. Our post office does not work on weekends, so any order comes in on weekends will be shipped out on Monday.
Thanks,
Daniel
Remark: Normally we ship out your order within 24 hours after our receipt of your order and payment. Our post office does not work on weekends, so any order comes in on weekends will be shipped out on Monday.
Please kindly double check your shipping address while you check out. We can not verify if your shipping address is complete or not especially there should be an apartment number, suite number...etc.
Thanks,
Daniel
Thanks,
Daniel
Updated 6/16/2016
As there are quite a few customers asking for "DO NOT SIGN FOR PACKAGE", we decide to re-offer the $2 unregistered shipping option for order amount less than $50. But please read the following term carefully.
$2 Unregistered air parcel shipping is a cheaper method which does not require signature upon delivery. There is no proof of shipping.
Therefore, by choosing $2 unregistered air parcel, you waive your right of filing a chargeback due to lost shipping. You are fully aware of and agree to the sales terms. We reserve the right to take your order or not.
As there are quite a few customers asking for "DO NOT SIGN FOR PACKAGE", we decide to re-offer the $2 unregistered shipping option for order amount less than $50. But please read the following term carefully.
$2 Unregistered air parcel shipping is a cheaper method which does not require signature upon delivery. There is no proof of shipping.
Therefore, by choosing $2 unregistered air parcel, you waive your right of filing a chargeback due to lost shipping. You are fully aware of and agree to the sales terms. We reserve the right to take your order or not.
Gaseous Tritium Light Source (GTLS) is a light source that does not require any power input to provide continuous illumination in darkness for more than 10-15 years. It is ideal light source for all kinds of safety signs or emergency devices. The markers we offer are great and recommended for attaching with your vital equipments or personal belongings to be visible and found in total darkness.
WELCOME We carry tritium vials and also produce acrylic, stainless steel / titanium markers, few titanium items and accessories. Please enjoy your stay here. Thanks.
The inventory listed on vials and related markers may not be 100% accurate as sometimes they are taken faster than we expected. If you have any question, please use Contact Us form to let us know.
These are the COLOR CODES we use.
And the right chart from vial maker provides the data of brightness, for reference only.
G - Green (Based on Green as 100%)
I - Ice Blue (60%)
Y - Yellow (80%)
R - Red (20%)
O - Orange (40%)
U - Purple (30%)
P - Pink (40%)
W - White (60%)
B - Blue (15%)
And the right chart from vial maker provides the data of brightness, for reference only.
G - Green (Based on Green as 100%)
I - Ice Blue (60%)
Y - Yellow (80%)
R - Red (20%)
O - Orange (40%)
U - Purple (30%)
P - Pink (40%)
W - White (60%)
B - Blue (15%)