AvroArrow
Enlightened
I've been eyeing the EOS for a while after cursing the fact that we almost never get the good deals on the EOS like our southern neighbors, like those $25USD sales about a month back. So I was poking around some Canadian sites and found the EOS on clearance for $31.00 CAD at Mountain Equipment Co-op (which is really close to the $25USD sale prices). HERE.
I bought a couple for myself and a couple for my co-workers. We figure it'd be handy with all the weird weather and power outages lately in Vancouver. 90kph+ winds and snow... not normal weather for Vancouver. The Vancouver store "had" the blue, gray/green, and orange ones. Now they only have the gray/green (4) and bright orange (10) ones.
The packaging was different though. The blue and gray/green ones came in a smaller pack without batteries, but the orange ones came in a larger package with 3 Duracell AAAs. Orange is not my color otherwise I would have gotten them because they came with batteries.
EDIT: Correction, the smaller packaged ones do in fact come with 3 Duracell AAAs. It's just that they were already installed into the light and not packaged separately. Doh! I think I'll open it up and try it before posting next time.
EDIT2: I really should fully test it out before posting. Out of the 3 blue ones, 1 of them didn't have those 2 plastic posts melted from the factory, so I just popped out the battery compartment and opened it up without having to drill out the melted "dots". It has a nice and white RX0H in it. My other blue one has a slight pink/purple tint to it compared to the RX0H one, but this one is already open for me from the factory. Oh yeah, it blows away my 0.5W River Rock headlamp. Wait until I put a XR-E P4 star into this EOS. :naughty:
They also have the 3x 5mm Princeton Tec Aurora on clearance for $21. I'm not sure if that's a good deal or not but I already have the River Rock 0.5W headlamp from Target (friend bought it for me on a trip to the States) so I didn't need it.
I bought a couple for myself and a couple for my co-workers. We figure it'd be handy with all the weird weather and power outages lately in Vancouver. 90kph+ winds and snow... not normal weather for Vancouver. The Vancouver store "had" the blue, gray/green, and orange ones. Now they only have the gray/green (4) and bright orange (10) ones.
The packaging was different though. The blue and gray/green ones came in a smaller pack without batteries, but the orange ones came in a larger package with 3 Duracell AAAs. Orange is not my color otherwise I would have gotten them because they came with batteries. EDIT: Correction, the smaller packaged ones do in fact come with 3 Duracell AAAs. It's just that they were already installed into the light and not packaged separately. Doh! I think I'll open it up and try it before posting next time.
EDIT2: I really should fully test it out before posting. Out of the 3 blue ones, 1 of them didn't have those 2 plastic posts melted from the factory, so I just popped out the battery compartment and opened it up without having to drill out the melted "dots". It has a nice and white RX0H in it. My other blue one has a slight pink/purple tint to it compared to the RX0H one, but this one is already open for me from the factory.
Oh yeah, it blows away my 0.5W River Rock headlamp. Wait until I put a XR-E P4 star into this EOS. :naughty:They also have the 3x 5mm Princeton Tec Aurora on clearance for $21. I'm not sure if that's a good deal or not but I already have the River Rock 0.5W headlamp from Target (friend bought it for me on a trip to the States) so I didn't need it.
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If you really want one, I can check at the post office how much it is to ship one to Australia and I can get one for you. It's $31.00+13% tax=$35.03 CAD ~ $38.24 AUD (according to xe.com today) plus whatever shipping. I know how bad it sucks when you can't get in on those awesome US-only deals sometimes.
