A few years back I’ve seen members here promising a positive review for free flashlights and not bring at all
shy at all about it.
I think it’s great when vendors call them out on it.
I don’t pretend to speak for anyone else, but for me, most complete lights I buy off-the-rack, I leave as-is. Call it laziness. If I don’t like something about the light (blinkies, the UI, etc.), I just don’t buy it, period. Lots of lights I just walked away from, because a review or comment pointed out some annoyance that I really didn’t want to deal with.
Otherwise, some lights I’ll buy only for their value as hosts, and strip them down to parts as soon as I get them. The UF F13, ferinstance. Typische annoying H/M/L/strobe/SOS, but acto an OldLumens vid someone posted, it looked quite moddable, so I got a few. Wellp, 22mm driver instead of 20mm, but doable. C8s? Damn, I’ve got an army of C8s, ready’n’waiting for whatever LED, driver, etc., that I’d want to throw into it. Same with lots of ’502s and a few ’501s.
I agree that lights shouldn’t be epoxied shut (not unless the mfr has a no-questions-asked warranty in case the slightest thing goes wrong). But using Fujik instead of AS5 (or nothing) shouldn’t get them unnecessary razzing.
Once you open it up, though, don’t count on a warranty. What mfr in its right mind would cover a “hotrodded” light? “You break it, you bought it.”
Still, it’s really nice to be able to mod a light and not leave it bone-stock, if that’s what you want to do. As long as you’re not counting on a warranty, sure, make it mod-friendly.
Hope this isn’t a silly question, but is there any other way to get the E2L than through AX?
First, AX insists on displaying its pages for me in German, and other than “Klink” and “Schultz” I don’t speak German. (Yeah, yeah, click the set-language thingy, but sometime later on a different page, it’s back to the stalag again.)
Second, I’d rather not set up yet another account on another site, especially if I don’t sprechen sie deutsch.
Was hoping one would be available at GB, FT, Amazon, somewhere…
I feel your pain. I was very much upset with AE a couple hours ago due to their site glitches. I managed to ignore the language selection glitch but the mobile version I was trying to buy some Thorfire items but the page kept on changing back to mobile view every time I go to another page.
I ended up closing the tabs without buyung the items :weary:
Close any AE page and delete the AE cookies
Enter only via www, never in de, pt, es, or any other language
If you accidentally enter a language other than English, then you must delete the AE cookies
I am having the same issuues, someone recommended to click on “global site” on Top Right.
I think there were many people asking him the same question about avoiding AX, so I suggested to start an interest group to get an idea on everyone’s preferences and to see the numbers.
I think Jax also mentioned in one of the threads in feedback section that he is now accepting paypal. I don;t know the details though.
I’m not really understanding your having that problem Lightbringer, I logged in and bought a couple of lights from Jaxman on AliExpress using a Visa card and it was zero issue. They shipped quickly, enroute even now.