Ultratac A1 on Amazon. AA or 14500 600 lumen tail clicky. $11.95

Hmm, thought only the older As had that, as my Bs are paper-white.

According to 264's BLF review, the Sofirn SF14 has, "No pulse width modulation. White color beam tint. No purple-blue-green hue". To me, the SF14 output apears to has about a 5500 color temperature with no noticeable blue or green tint. But I may not be sensitive to these aberrations and they go unnoticed. Nevertheless, they are not an issue for me. Let us know what you settle on. Thanks.

Sofirn SP10B for $13.99. Not sure if that a good deal or not either.

https://www.amazon.com/Sofirn-flashlight-Keychain-Lumens-Practical/dp/B076J95YNF/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1531713425&sr=8-5&keywords=sofirn

I had one in my account cart yesterday at the 11.95 price. Came back this morning to complete the order and discovered the price has increased. Bait & switch? Greed in prep for Prime Day? Skirmish in trade war?

I've never had any UltraTac lights and likely will not in the future, based on their behavior. Reaching into my account cart to increase the price is shady & underhanded, to say the least. No different than being in the grocery store with a gallon of milk in my cart at, say, $1.99, then having a clerk pass by and place a price tag of $2.99 on it when I'm not looking.

For a society that supposedly is concerned with "saving face", these people sure aren't thinking about how their actions look to the rest of the world. Fake cells and wildly overstating cell capacities come to mind also.

/end rant\

I wouldn’t call that bait&switch nor shady. That is just how internet stores work - you can’t just put stuff in your cart and expect it to still be there at the same price tomorrow. Amazon prices change quite often - sometimes multiple times a day. But again, this isn’t something specific to UltraTac or even Amazon - most online stores work this way.

It depend on your needs. If you need a flashlight right away and this flashlight fits the bill, the price might be OK. It is a decent flashlight. But it can be had couple of dollars cheaper if one can wait for a sale. The AliExpress Sofirn Official Store seems to have a bi-annual sale, for example. During the last one in June, I picked one up for $10.42. They were even cheaper if you used their shopping App via a smart phone (which I don't own).

I bought one off of Amazon for $12.99 in March with a dollar-off coupon - with no regrets.

Agreed, and I’ve had prices go down, too, while languishing in my cart.

But the limit per customer sliding down from 2-per to 1-per just stinks. I stopped with GB coupons and flash-sales because of that, as it’s just not worth it.

It’s that double-whammy that soured me on the deal, and the mfr.

Anyway, water under the bridge, fish under the sea, whatever.

Never had that happen to me before.

I'd already committed to purchasing it.

Changing the price on something I've already committed to buy at a stated price doesn't fly with me. I'm not blaming Amazon.

shows 11.95 right now.

There is no “committed to purchasing it” until you hit buy button.

Appreciate the code. Thank you.

Maybe this price will get better after 3 pm EST today for prime day?
Never know.

Yeah, that’s not how it works. You’ve committed to nothing until you actually click the “Place Order” button.

People keep stuff in their carts for days, and weeks, or even months at a time, and they can always remove it from the cart at any point in time, so it’s not something that a retailer can accept as commitment.

Quit while you are behind, Slmjim. As others have said, this is how Amazon and pretty much every other eCommerce site work; it’s probably even how price changes in big supermarkets work.

There is nothing “Chinese” about it. I’m pretty sure that no third-party seller on Amazon even has a choice of whether to grandfather people in who have an item in their cart when they change a price. Moreover Amazon (a US company) themselves makes automatic price adjustments for products they sell. They also have multiple listings for the same product (like their Amazon Basics LSD NiMH batteries) at different prices for the same product.

I received this response to an email requesting that UltraTac honor the original price. Seems they might have gotten the Prime Day date wrong? (Wasn't 7/15.)

Note the discount code.

Thank you for email us. As you know, UltraTac A1's original price is US$16.88, we cut the price to US$11.95 on the 7/15 because of the prime day.
 This mini flashlight is a low-margin product, if we sell at US$11.95 we will lose about 3.5 dollars per flashlight.
 We can not afford to lose money continuously. you will find the price will restore to the original price eventually. 
But I had discussed with my manager, we decide to provide BLF members a special discount for 15% discount during Prime day.
 The discount code is PVOMWAQ2, you can provide this code to who want to buy it or post this code on BLF forum.
 If them can not seize this opportunity, I can't do anything about it in the future.
Hope you can understand it. Thank you again.

My Thanks to UltraTac for the resolution.

EDIT: I noticed when viewing on an iPad that the copy/paste was way whacked out of the right margin. Corrected.

Thanks SimJim, with the 15% off promo code of PVOMWAQ2 you provided, I just purchased a UntraTac A1 from Amazon for $10.16. This one will probably be gifted.

Amazon’s site is crashing already.
Even big money can’t buy enough bandwidth :slight_smile:

If I remember correctly, the K18 was reasonably well-received. I dislike cooler tint though or I’d probably pick one of these up.

…Although for $10 with nice enough mode spacing (1-30-220) maybe I’ll change my mind. :wink:

Just got mine today. The tint is not as cold as I thought it would be. It’s quite pleasant actually. I would probably say about 5300K or so. Not to far off my 5000K nichia light I compared it to. Works good, feels good. Feels like Lumintop Tool AA quality. Tint is warmer than the Tool AA as well.

Forthcoming review? :wink:

Does it at least tail stand?