Re: $1 AA lights from Ebay
Chauncey,
Are you talking about these particular $1 ebay lights or others (it sounded like you were speaking of others in your previous post). This particular light ships for about $.50, making the total $1.50, which is a large part of what makes this a "good" deal- the to-your-door cost of the $1 light isn't $9.99 after shipping is added. 🙂
No, and looking at the lights (like the Romisen) they are better than the junk I first picked up. It was that frustration that led me to cpf.
I would have no problem at all picking up a decent Romisen for a buck & a half. It just makes me wonder how they are procured. I've never paid less than $15 bucks for a Romisen & all of them have worked flawlessly & been surprisingly bright & well made. My opinion from experience (maybe a dozen or so cheap DX Ultrafire's & Romisen's) is that brand in particular is more like a cheap Fenix with fewer settings & less sophistication.
Anodizing has been good & uniform on all of them & the beam quality & tint has rivaled (or exceeded) some much more expensive lights.
I've given away many of the Romisen's in CR 123, AA & AAA to friends who later got hooked on flashlights as a hobby.
The stuff from ebay wound up becoming objects for plinking with a .22 & the remains recycled.
I'd take a link to a genuine Romisen AA for $1.50 & happily try it out & report back.
I don't want anyone getting turned off of a bargain, but I'd also not want to see this stuff in landfills either.
I know some of the sellers on ebay are decent, but there are also plenty that don't care if they ship knowingly defective lights, because returning them to get back 99 cents is not something most will go to the time, trouble & expense over.
I think my experience is pretty relevant to new flashaholics (given I've wandered the same path as many w/ regard to ebay & other disapointments).
I'm all in for a bargain & would love to report back on a
positive ebay cheapo light experience.
edit:
You're damned right about ALWAYS absurd shipping and handling fees. I just bought six of the one dollar torches and they had the hide to charge me at total of $2.57 to ship the bundle to Australia. Absurd in the extreme and totally against the spirit of ebay, they should have charged me twenty dollars postage!!!!
I know it's not really my place to speak for him but I think Mr Torch Boy might have been simply trying to say that repeating every single one of a previous poster's pictures along with the entire long text of the poster's review in your quote was just a little excessive and might have been rather annoying to readers.
Dave, $2.57 sounds pretty cheap to me for the whole bundle. If I'm missing some sarcastic humor so be it.
Point taken about the repeat, but when I'm talking about specific experience with a given light & brand under discussion & would like to see people new avoid mistakes I've made......
Getting a bit tired of seeing posts like torchboy's that literally add zero to discussion & sick of the lack of courtesy & civility in general at times on the internet.
I expect to
give and
recieve courteous communication when talking face to face, & don't care for the faceless annonymity & bad manners that seem to increasingly prevail.
So, apologies extended to anyone who thinks my post was off topic.
