After seeing this I started to hate this nitecore brand and I will stay away from them.
Who do they think they are ?
Very threatening words! And humiliating!
If I was fasttech I would remove all nitecores from sale.
Can somebody - another company - make a similar, better or clone of this ea4? I will be the first to order!
By the way who are you fasttech ?
Are you guys really from earth? lol
Really thanks for amazing prices and first class customer service!
A lot of sites do that with all sorts of stuff. And I haven’t seen a site at $74.99 either
We agree. Amazon does it very often as well, but we’re interested in sites carrying Chinese brand name lights. We ask because from their messages we’re pretty sure Nitecore means actual sale price.
We should add that we weren’t made aware of, or agree to bind to any MAP in the first place. Nitecore has a large distribution network in China. You can only take our words on this but their guys didn’t pass that information on, and now they get upset over this.
I’m thinking a simple way is a coupon code on products you’d like to ‘adjust’ the price on. You can still advertise the ‘happy price’ for manufacturers, but peeps in the know get the price you want to sell at. Call it a sale if you have to.
The in-cart adjustment would work too, it’s just a lot more obvious and may still be frowned upon.
There is MAP and Unilateral. MAP is the minimum advertised price, and unilateral is the price that it cannot be sold below (even with discounts). But these days each manufacturer/vendor seems to want you to implement these in different ways. Some you can advertise on the listings page at MAP with a strike through to indicate it's lower when added to your cart. Some you can't indicate the lower price at all, it just magically appears in the cart. Some you can't even show the price until "final checkout". Amazon got around this by requiring a log-in to see the final price, instead of actually going through the whole checkout process.
As someone who works for a retailer, it's very confusing and frustrating to always abide by all of these rules. I'm sure it's much more lax with Chinese companies though.
Another way around this “Price Fixing” (Because that is what it is) is to offer an instant coupon for $X amount off of Another/Different item when bought with the first Map item.
Or a coupon good for next purchase, or so much off on the batteries, or free batteries, the options are endless.
This way they get to have their precious Map price be honored.
Bose is one of the worst for this price fixing practice.
Thanks for all you do FastTech!
Later,
Keith
you see that all the time at the big box stores
buy the ps3 here and get a $40 gift card
buy an xbox here and get two games free
sign your soul over to the devil and spend 99 cents on an iphone
On some online dealers, prices can be transacted through emails. Even with the usual BLF/CPF discount, most items can be had at a still lower price. I have done this a couple of times.
How about a Trustfire X6 or even a clone of the X6 ?
I’ve been itching to pick up one of these for a while… 
Promo codes for brands are used by other merchants. I received a promo code for all Fenix lights that gave me 20% off the advertised price when entered at checkout. That merchant uses it for other brands off and on and it is still in business….
Thank you everyone for your inputs.
Well other sites are still selling these at around $55. This includes even eBay. We decided that if they can’t make everyone comply we have no choice but to ignore their request.
Once again the lights are available for order now in both cool white and neutral white flavors.
Jasmine
Thanks Jasmine. I hope you all don’t get in trouble. I’ve had great success with fasttech on my orders
I have to say here, I have made about 4-5 good sized purchases from them in the past month and a half.
A couple of the orders contained very minor issues. One package was missing some $2 magnets, one package came with a broken $3 red dot laser, and one came with a cheap flashlight that had a dirty reflector.
Fasttech handled EVERY issue with absolutely FANTASTIC service and I am very thankful for that.
I must say, if I need something, I’ll be ordering from Fasttech, and if they don’t have it, i’ll wait for them to get it lol.
Best shopping experience ever!
I just finished testing the six Panasonic NCR18650A 3100mAh button-top, protected cells I recently received fast from FastTech.
Firstly I charged them in my Pila IBC and all came out at 4.19V each. Next I have my hobby charger discharge capacity tested each one of them and here are the results:
3069 mAh (re-tested after I manually terminated the discharge mode due to some errands, 2914mAh)
3030
3036
3031
3064
3054
Excellent consistency and quality control by Panasonic.
I’m really glad you’re going this way on this issue. I don’t understand what NiteCore has to gain as I can only see the price you charge affecting your margin and not theirs. OK, they want to be a premium brand but I’d like to see them enforce this MAP in Europe as it’s outright price fixing and likely to attract the attention of the bureaucrats.
Still a bit premium for me even despite your great price. Maybe your friends at Convoy could take some ‘design inspiration’ from your recent dealings with NiteCore and show them how it can be done?
+1
Just have to say. From a scale from 1 to awesome. Fasttech is awesome! 
Hey fast tech. I just wanted to suggest you carry 936 or 937 soldering stations. :bigsmile: Real or knock off cause they both seem good and are hard to find at decent prices
I dont know if Fasttech reads this forum now or not, but Ill share my experience from other thread here:
Item ordered 03.01.13, paid for registered shipping, shipped from Fasttech 04.01.13, then it spent 9(!!!) days at HK post office before it was sent out on 13.01.13 and arrived at destination country during afternoon of 15th January, it spent 9(!!!) days in HK post office, it took ONLY 2 days for it to be delivered to my country, then it took 5(!!!) days(two holidays in between) for my local customs to process it and it was sent to post office and I picked it up on 6th day of this item being in my country, the first day it was at the post office!
So, yeah, I know how local post office processes packages, I knew that it might spend up to 5(!!!) days for local customs to process it, however Im really disappointed that it took 9(!!!) days for item to actually leave HK’s post office!
Not satisfied this time since I paid for registered, sorry…
Got my Trustfire flames 3000 today, took over a month(snail mail) so it came with the battery box without the additional wrap. I now know what you mean, mine is cracked a bit too. But it doesn’t care me because I can still use it(will glue it) and the whole deal was so cheap(8:money_mouth_face:
I haven’t tested them yet , but what I can say that they look awesome!
This holographic lightning with red and golden, very cool. Look much better than the old 2400. Wanted ever some of these for my collection, but was scared of all the fakes.
@veer: chill. They say 10 - 14 business days for registered shipping, so just as advertised.
Wow! I placed an order late last night (way too late, actually :weary: ) and I just got an email stating it is shipped! About eight hours from ordered to shipped. If the shipping goes smooth, this may break my current FT record of nine days ordered to received.
Great job Fasttech!