Nitecore EA4 L2 (XM-L2) Announcement and Crazy Sale!

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Yeah you are right but the Axes are made in Finland and so they should be for the price.

Marc.

Thanks for making this great offer available Craig!

I ordered my 1’st EA4 from you and I’m really pleased with it. What I really like about this light is that it’s great for gifting (with Eneloops & charger) to family & friends who wouldn’t be candidates for a Li-Ion battery light.

Can you buy the XM-L version from Fasttech for $9 less? Yes. $9 folks, come on; for a US based retailer and the newer LED?

Complete no-brainer for me! Like itguy08 said ``I’d rather pay a few $$ for your superior service than save a few $$.``

If you`re thinking of buying this light, how can you not go for for this exclusive version?

s. I’m just a customer, no affiliation with illumination supply or Craig.

I’ve often wondered if the web based shipping calculators that some vendors use for calculating USPS shipping to Canada are wonky. For example I’m looking at 3 Picatinny rails from a US based seller on eBay, they are $10.00 each, but then the shipping to Canada is $20.00 (USPS Priority Mail International Padded Flat Rate Envelope). Those 3 rails from a Hong Kong seller are $8.00 each with shipping included. So the math works out to this: rails from HK: $24.00, same rails from USA $50.00 (but perhaps as much as $70.00 if customs adds more taxes and duties and collection fees). I’m guessing that if those rails were sent via USPS First Class it would be about $3.00, but many US sellers are understandably reluctant to use this method as there is no tracking or accountability.

Then to make it even worse for Canadians trying to buy from US, for some reason if those cheap goods come from China, they simply seem to sail straight through customs. But from the USA, customs sets them to the side for valuation (another few days of delay), then slap duty and taxes on them, and then the Post Office charges another $5.00 fee to collect the taxes.

In spite of ‘NAFTA’, it seems like Canada and the UK are both severely disadvantaged when purchasing items from US sellers and the reason seems to be purely political on our side, and it doesn’t seem like USPS is doing much to help the US sellers either.

TS,

The USPS almost doubled their shipping costs to international customers. As for ebay, people set whatever shipping costs they’d like - many do this to get a bit more profit.

Yay, USPS. :frowning:

With the recent price increases i think the USPS thought they were being very smart, domestic shipping would barely be impacted, and the increase would be borne by foreigners. They don’t seem to realize that people will just buy from elsewhere when they double the shipping cost

I almost fell off my chair when I read the International chart!

I’ve often wondered if the shipping is subsidized in China but Google searches tend to indicate not. But obviously the Gov’t there must have realized how important it is to business to make sure they have a competitive edge in the International marketplace.

I didn’t realize that we are even better off in Canada. For example I just shipped a 6lb package from Canada to USA (via ‘Expedited Parcel-USA’), I can track it, and the total was $18.42. Looks like the USPS Priority Mail rate for this would be $41.00.

I wonder if the recent USPS rate hikes were thought to be stimulating the economy.

Wow, I sent a Magic Fire Scorpion HID to China a few months ago for under $20. Guess I won’t be able to do anything like that again!

I was involved in a rc racing boat club.if members ordered from china ,hong kong 99% of the time no matter what the value the item would arrive at address ,no import ,duty or vat to pay.However if sent by usps they would arrive by courier at the door with x amount of vat import duty to pay .You have to pay the courier before u receive your parcel.if sent by another method from usa 99% of the time they would b held at a local depot until dutys were paid then delivered to you.You could also collect if it was more convenient.Not forgetting there handling charge which i think is £11 now.

I do find it mildly amusing that the land of capitalism and market forces can’t complete with a state owned communist postal service on price. Mind you, Germanic efficiency also seems to be somewhat lacking from ‘Saxe-Coburg Mail’ here in the UK.

The mail order business has been the saviour of the UK postal service. Go to pick up a package at the weekend and it’s a sea of Amazon boxes and other on-line retailers behind the counter. I’ve not gotten the figures but there must be more post moving round the planet than ever before. Why prices have hiked so badly in the western markets over the last couple of years I just can’t understand.

They are wired 4S (pretty sure) and if you put 14500s in it you will instantly kill it.

that’s correct - no 14500s for this light!

Craig

eneloops work great in this light :slight_smile:

They sure do. I'm playing with mine right now........The EA4 that is!! sheesh, you guys have filthy minds!

i assumed you were playing with your hair

Ordered the xml2 version, cause I’m weak. Thanks for offering these :smiley:

Agreed it can be annoying shipping to Canada from the US. And the big increase in USPS costs has made it even worse. (In fairness to the USPS, FedEx and UPS costs have gone a mile high over the past couple of years, so you had to figure they’d get in on the action too.)

On the other hand, I ordered my EA4 XM-L2 from Illumination Supply Feb 14 and it arrived today Feb 19!

In a very well packaged proper box, not the abused bubble pack mailers we get so often get from China.

So I’ll continue to use Fasttech for batteries and budget lights, but for something really nice I’m going with Illumination Supply, my experience with them has been superb!

+1 i had to get one… I love my ea4w too much and itneeds a cw friend :slight_smile:

any tint shift? flickering? does the light function ok?

if everything seems ok, then its probably fine… at the worst maybe you shortened the life of the emitter by 2 or 3 hours, but with a 20,000 hour life span who cares :slight_smile:

more orange-ish :slight_smile: