So I am looking on Ebay at seller "365bid" and I scroll down on this page which is for an "UltraFire WF501B CREE XML T6" and see a photo which is clearly from Flashlight Foy! Here is the Ebay Photo:
And Hold On! I was looking for a Foy review with the same area and believe I found the exact same photo! See this thread reviewing the Ultrafire UF-980L and here is his photo from that thread:
I was going to say that the Ebay photo didn't look like an XM-L's hotspot, but I guess I'm wrong! But I'm sure it's way off for representing the beam of the "UltraFire WF501B CREE XML T6"! I've never really trusted Chinese beamshot photos and now I have proof!
Good find Garry. I've noticed on many beamshots that they are just recycled pictures, often the shot has nothing to do with the flashlight being sold. I guess this makes Foy kind of a a celebrity, huh?
You ought to contact the seller and tell them your turning them in to ebay for fraud. That's what it is. It won't do much good though. And even if ebay were to start cracking down on Asian sellers, they will just come back on as a different seller. Several of them have like 3 or more accounts. But there are some good ones.
You guys want to have some fun? I'm in if you all are. Let's get a bunch of BLF members here to send that guy a message stating this.
Hi,
I was very interested in your Ultafire 501B and was just about to buy it, but then I noticed that picture you stole from a guy on Budget Light Forum and it made me change my mind real quick. Thanks anyway.
Yeah, and link to the thread with the photo and explain you no longer want it because it's really a photo of an Ultrafire UF-980L!
Oh, and I went and did a search for the previous mention of Foy's stolen photos and I couldn't find it, so it wouldn't have done me any good to search first. (At least this didn't happen over at "the other forum" where I would have been castrated for doing such a thing and expected to know the post existed without it coming up in a search!)