Expensive absolutely means nothing.Price rises to meet demand. The highest lumen single 18650 flashlight IN THE WORLD is only 60 bucks. But the farthest throwing production light single 18650 (Acebeam T21, 180k candela, or, correct me if I'm wrong, 250 k candela 2x18350) is $150, expensive.Lights sell the same way every other thing on earth sells, nothing is overpriced unless it didn't meet the sales quota, nothing is underpriced unless it sells out before expected plan runs its course, and only the seller knows those things or can say those things unless it is overwhelmingly obvious (the Acbeam x70 is overpriced so can not meet at a minimum-correct me if you know more ) (the lumintop blf gt was underpriced for first under 200 dollar run, and sold out too fast, since then, raised it to the more appropriate 260 dollars)Now lumintop has again lowered the blf gt price because of sale halting from Astrolux mf04 being cheaper and farther throwing for about the same size, only size-limited people would buy it in their right mind. ///////// ///////// ///////// ///////// . You see, price is all about marketing, quality especially endurance and longevity have nothing to do with the price, you pay for what you get you never necessarily get what you pay for. Most profit is way, way above cost of production. MOP is means of production, and is a fixed value. So you can only produce so much per year and must price so that you sell it over that year. Another option-the usual, is pricing things above this value and putting it on sale once you are down to 10% left or once a new competitor takes away some of the market.///////// ///////// ///////// ///////// nothing will sell for being expensive. Good lights should be cheap, bad lights should be illegal to produce, just like bad cars, but if they were good lights would actually be more expensive, because people would have to buy them, and again as prior said, the MOP is fixed and only so many can be made or sold.