I would say avoid ebay too.
I am trying to buy a couple more SF flashlights too and also looking for good prices online. Among the internet dealers, most of them just have MSRP prices, a lot of them have free shippig or offer some free batteries. I can only find the two internet dealers as mentioned above, that have discounts. Placed an order with tacticalsupply last week and the order status is still "processing" though.
So the biggest discount so far I can find on SF is roughly 20% off.
I am wondering how big the profit margin is for SF flashlights. As I was in China early this year, the dealers' everyday price for SF flashlight is like 20% off MSRP. For example, a $99 MSRP E1L's sticker price is about $80(or 640 yuan) and you can bargain with them for a bit more (another 5% off at least). From what I can tell the SF flashlight they are selling are authentic, not fake. BUT they have to pay the international shipping, and import taxes, etc, shouldn't that make it more expensive than in U.S.? If all counted in and they are still selling for 80% MSRP to make a profit (I am sure they still make profit from that price), then what is the actual price U.S. dealers get here in U.S. from SF? Just a bit curious and think it is not fair to U.S. customers. BTW I donot think SF exports defective/discount item to China to make it cheaper, right?