(Dead deal)XM-L 2x 18650 headlight for $3.40

Originally posted by Davx in the deal alert thread. I thought I’d make a discussion thread for it. What intrigues me is the xml with 2x 18650s, and the mode arrangement seems alright. Anyone bought one?

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Couldn’t figure out how to grab their images.

Yeah, Ali has some special protection on images at their site.

Seems like a great deal. Even if it's cheap quality, there is some good stuff that can be salvaged from it. Must be a pricing mistake. Ordered one out of curiosity.

Thanks for the alert. :)

Ordered a couple, maybe I’ll get lucky ,prob not

Are they likely to send something completely different?

I got one too, it’ll be handy for hands free work. darn, going to have to scrape up a couple more 18650s now.

They are likely to send you a light with an xre/xpe. They are pretty clear it’s an xml though. I’d say it’s worth a shot.

Yeah, it would probably still be worth it. XM-L would be a lot better for biking though.

bought a couple, at that price they will make great gift form my flashaholic kids

For $3.40 I took the plunge and bought one. I can’t imagine ever using their charger but maybe someone can report on how decent (or not) it is. I didn’t see anything about low voltage protection so I assume there is none. I guess I’ll have to pick up some protected batteries or be extremely careful using my unprotected ones.

seems to be the same reviewed here

In my hands this was a piece of plastic crap and the switch broke after 2 uses. While it lasted threw a lot of light though

Bought one, was generous and selected the registered post for 0.01$. :bigsmile:

For $3.40 one can’t expect too much. All I want is for it to last through my next African vacation in Feb. I’ll also bring a Convoy S2 and S2+ for backup and some spare o-rings so that I can mount one of them to the headband if the headlight goes poof. And I’ll have an extra 2 batteries for the Convoy’s on top of that :slight_smile:

If this is real i would buy 5 of that, please if any one received it please help us with a fast review

I got this exact headlamp. I paid about $20 about a year ago. It’s pretty bright for a headlamp. It’s worth the $4 that’s for sure. I have never used the charger. The tint is really blue though. And the switch is fairly sensitive, had it turn on by itself when I had it in my backpack.

Well, good luck with that. You can certainly piss off some hippo before it breaks . My advice: don’t pack it with batteries inside, the switch is the weakest part and is not replaceable.

It is priced at $3.49 all through the transaction and at check out it bounces up to $12.99 - my experience with it two minutes ago anyway……

Mine went to $12.99 as soon as I hit “add to cart”.

Looks like they caught the mistake.

I’d probably go for a better quality and more reliable light…

You really don’t want to “piss off some hippo”.

Thanks for the advice. I always carry on my lights. I once had 20 lights in my backpack along with a Steripen. 9 were for myself, wife, and 1 kid, and the other 11 were presents for another daughter’s coworkers in Uganda. Not much room in the backpack for anything else :slight_smile: