No, it’s not. Sofirn does this more often than you know. They want to get rid of stock, move whats not selling, get folks talking about the light, pick a reason. Thorfire and Sofirn have been very good to folks on here. They offer it up here because the BLF community has been good customers. They have offered deals to other Amazon sites besides the US in the past. Just all depends on what they have and where.
Great prices are available on their Ali site with no worries of extra charges. If you are overly worried about shipping times then you limit your options as to where you can or will buy from. Suit yourself.
It’s entirely possible. Like I said. Sofirn has always been great to us BLF’ers. I wanted a few lights for gifts this past Xmas, PM’d them and they took good care of me. I feel guilty sometimes asking but, they can always tell me no. I would still buy them anyway.
I have just gotten use to not using Amazon and getting my lights elsewhere. Not because I am anti-Amazon or anything. They decided to quit shipping orders here with USPS and started using their own completely useless logistic services. Which probably wouldn’t be that bad except for the fact that their hub is 60 miles away from my house. I’m in the middle of nowhere. Guess where city boys and girls don’t want to drive. Yep. Out here. So they mark it undeliverable. Amazon won’t ship by USPS so I don’t use Amazon. I never really need anything super quick anyway.