what do you think is a fair price to resell this set up?

Lots of fellow co-workers have asked me about my lights that a bring to work with me. I finally started volunteering my services by putting together ready to go light sets. I’ve been selling sf l2n’s with xr-e or xp-g emitters and 1.4a circuit board with either smooth or op reflectors, two genuine tf flame 18650’s with plastic case and an xtar mp1 charger. All for 60 bucks. Is this too cheap or too much considering they could buy the same stuff themselves minus assembling the drop in. My logic is that they either know nothing about flashlights or would more than likey get taken on eBay by some Lowlife seller selling “2000 lumen” lights and “5000ma” batteries for ridiculous prices. My service to them offers not waiting a month for an order, getting sold built stuff and knowing what they are buying before they put their money on the table. What do you all think?

Did a quick price check on all the individual items in that package deal and it doesn’t seem like you’re making that much profit out of it. Are you also making the drop-ins yourself? If so, then that package deal price of yours is more than fair in my opinion.

Yeah, about 12 bucks per sale. Like most hobbies, you won’t get rich. Mainly I just like putting them together for people. And seeing the look on peoples faces when I blow away their stingers!

If your friends were to buy the parts on their own, the L2N would be $14.99+$2 shipping, the TF flames would be $9.38, and the XTAR MP1 would be $9.25.

Total cost minus the drop-in = $35.62

So, basically, you're charging them $24.38 for a custom built drop-in AND acting as a buffer between them and the dangerously addictive world of budget flashaholism. That's a fine deal.

… with Murphy’s Law (anything that can go wrong will go wrong), I’d consider adding a few bucks as a reserve for the chance of having to replace a fried drop-in or bad battery.

LOL. That’s a good perspective! Although I think ruffles is right that I should charge a little more to cover a failed part. Higher failure rate with heavier emitters and drivers is why I decided to stick with the lower amperage stuff. Plus, in our line of work we need more throw than flood.

That quite a bit more fair than the $40 Sipik clones being pushed off to "first responders."

Yeah, I guess that guy has no problem sleeping at night.

I’d pay 60 for that set up if I was new to lights or had no idea how to build one. Pretty good deal. The extra $ goes for not having to do the research about which parts to use and for the work it takes to put together each light.

I may be letting my services go a little cheap. I was toying around with the idea of custom drivers using hidden modes. That may be a real possibility. I think an extra twenty or so would be a good price point for a quality light of those features. Although, if I go with the whole “made by first responders for first responders” bs marketing I could ask approximately $480 for the lights I build. I mean, they are built with responders in mind, right? Lmao

I think it’s fair and you probably could charge more and justify it to your friends when they find out just how long it takes to get the items shipped. It might also be a good idea to do a simple teardown, cleaning, reassembly and lubing. Many people complain about flickery lights and never figure out to tighten that tailcap retaining ring solarforce is smart to put the wavy washer in the tailcap between the switch board and retaining ring as it helps reduce flickering. So any lights I give out have the retaining ring lok-tited.

What I would actually offer is a Solarforce L2 as I consider it better looking and less expensive. And the big thing I would do to make it truly worth buying is putting a nanjg driver and foil wrap the module. It seems nobody really sells P60 modules with the very nice three mode nanjg driver with invisible PWM and no blinky modes. That gives you a selling advantage so people have a real reason to buy from you.