I always think will those buying expensive custom modded light regret later, those modded lights are insanely expensive but i doubt their reliabilities.
Wish I’d ordered more of the DITO stainless steel lights last year during their 11/11 promo. 1-2 bucks for excellent SS lights including a ton of extras like ss rings and stuff. I bought just 1. tracked and insured shipping included.
Looking at Aliexpress on 11/11 today, there are no Dito lights to be found. They disappeared.
Funny, I was JUST in Ali looking for them. Dito is Gone.
I’ve bought some that I shouldn’t have!! Does that count?
Nope. This happened to everyone here.
Well that makes me feel a bit better…
BLF Giga thrower
Just thought of one: the Defiant Super Thrower that Home Depot sold a few years ago! I actually did buy one but I had offered it as the prize for my 1k post giveaway. Then Home Depot stopped selling them before I could get one for myself.
Lumintop SD10.
Runs on anything from 32650s to AAs, and gives very useable light for a very long time. I bought one, and wish I’d have bought a lot more.
Uniquefire 2100, Ultrafire WF-504B and Roche F12 :heart_eyes: , but it was some years ago and I was afraid of li-ion. So I bought 3xAAA flashlights like Ultrafire SK96 instead :person_facepalming: . Now Roche F12 is gone forever :cry: . It would compete with my Convoy S3 as my edc.
Do you think I like small flashlights with a shiny bezel too much ? 
black shadow terminator
This was also a bit in the back of my mind as well. One of the few soda can lights that throws fairly well. Nice looks and finish. The most notorious competitor with comparable beam profile was the Nitecore TM26 costing a whopping $400. The Terminator was something like $140? So much more affordable but still not cheap though. Nice how prices of really good quality lights have dropped significantly.
I wish I have bought a fenix tk20 ten years ago.
I will not buy a MF01 because it is quite some money to spend, it has a meager UI and there is some incidence of faulty lights, and in performance it is too close to a well-modded Q8, with the Q8 being cheaper, smaller and having better throw.
But it still is one of those lights that if Astrolux had done a bit more thorough job on it (and had used a nice TK firmware), the form factor, led+optics lay-out and use of high CRI Nichia’s had made it a must-have for a good price. I’m still tempted and may once regret not having bought one.
djozz,
you just described most of the Astrolux line.
You can have mine, v.2, for what I paid, but that is no sort of deal. The LEDs are superb in Nichia. Otherwise it is a disappointment to the discerning, all down to driver and UI. It could have been so good, and still is, in a limited way. You might I suppose regret not owning one, if that’s what floats (or sinks) your boat, but time moves on, and better things keep coming still, though I think we might be reaching “peak flashlight” soon.
Ah yes, DITO SS, that was awesome offer back then, I would slap myself for not buying it then even for full price (I think it was something around 10$ or so), Instead I bought a bunch of whistles and carabiners (stuff I don’t actually use) :person_facepalming:
But there was one light that was popular back when I joined this forum. It was a big and heavy light with 3 emitters (back then that was a WOW), used, I think, 3 18650 cells, simple design, no fancy cnurling like this days lights are (I would say something between ThruNite TN40 and TN42, a bit taller than TN40, not that wide head like TN42). Man, this is going to bother me until I find it…
Edit: found it, I was googling for Fenix TK61 (one of those I really wanted but was disappointed when I found that is has a plastic reflector and led shelf) and found then so popular BTU Shocker
Fenix E35UE. It sounds weird but when they were on clearance I put together some group buys for my team at work. They were down to about $27 each and I had one earmarked for myself but a last minute request came in so I let it go. I must have spent 3 or 4 times that amount chasing those features when I found out there were none left.