Hello, I am thinking of getting the following from shenzhen-wholesale:
- Brinyte PD08 CREE Q5 LED Aluminum Flashlight
- P4 LED regulable foci aluminum flashlight(809A)
- Romisen RC-C6 CREE Q5 1-Mode 1xCR123A Flashlight
- ROMISEN RC-C8 3V-8V CREE Q5 LED regulable foci flashlight
- SKYRAY S-R5 XP-G R5 LED aluminum Flashlight
- TrustFire F23 XP-E LED Stainless Steel Flashlight
- UltraFire BJ08A 5-mode Q5 LED aluminum Flashlight
- UltraFire WF-504B CREE Q5 LED Aluminum Flashlight
- SKY RAY Luminus SST-50 LED 5-Mode Aluminum Flashlight
These are stuff I like and are not available at DX, or they are cheaper (with the posting fees) from DX.
What do you think? Do you see something you don't like or something I can do better at SW?
Thank you
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Let a flooder be my wife and a thrower be my mistress
The RC-C6 is available in several places - this could be the cheaper Q3 version, it is not possible to tell from the pictures. I have one and as zooming lights go it is not bad at all. I'd say it is worth it. Lightake had the Q3 version on offer a while back.
The Skyray S-R5 is available is several variants. Good light, well made, nice body.
The Trustfire F23 is one of my favourite lights - lovely but heavy. The switch can be fragile. Fran82 killed his one with a drop.
That is the new body shape 504B - someone here has one - but my memory is failing on who it is.
The SST-50 light is essentially the same body as the Uniquefire L2/Solarforce L2/old WF-504B. They are all P60 lights and I'd not buy any P60 sized SST-50 light as it is not well enough heatsinked to be driven at the 5A an SST-50 needs. Nor is 5A out of an 18650 a clever thing to do unless you buy (expensive) IMR cells. It is probably little or no brighter than a well-driven MC-E and costs a lot more.
The numbers from my light tests are always to be found here.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApkFM37n_QnRdDU5MDNzOURjYllmZHI...
I have the 504B and the C6 and I agree with Don. Both are very nice lights which I can recommend.
Cheap quality is good - Expensive crap isn´t
Whats the shipping price and weight?
Enter into Hongkong post see what you get.
Don I have the new ultrafire 504B body which I have put the ultrafire XPG R5 1mode drop-in.
Yes, I know it would never perform 100% on a p60 dropin with just one 18650, I just think that, what the heck, an SST-50 is an SST-50, how bad can it be? And I also like the body so it is not so big difference to add $15 more and get the dropin too.
Let a flooder be my wife and a thrower be my mistress
The shipping for this order is $33.80 using EMS (China -> Greece)
Let a flooder be my wife and a thrower be my mistress
What was the weight i tried to order but was put off by the shippping cost due to the weight. I do not know how they calculate it.
What was the weight i tried to order but was put off by the shippping cost due to the weight. I do not know how they calculate it.
What was the weight i tried to order but was put off by the shippping cost due to the weight. I do not know how they calculate it.
EMS tends to cost about ten times as much as ordinary post from HK. I will only use EMS if I get it for free.
The numbers from my light tests are always to be found here.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApkFM37n_QnRdDU5MDNzOURjYllmZHI...
Shipping cost are $3.75 per light.
SKYRAY S-R5 XP-G R5 LED aluminum Flashlight
TrustFire F23 XP-E LED Stainless Steel Flashlight
UltraFire BJ08A 5-mode Q5 LED aluminum Flashlight
These can be had cheaper on other sites
The weight is 981 grams.
Let a flooder be my wife and a thrower be my mistress
I think these companies make a profit on shipping. That's why I don't buy from them.
The same weight by HK Bulk Post (Which does have its issues) would be HK$65 or about US$6
The numbers from my light tests are always to be found here.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApkFM37n_QnRdDU5MDNzOURjYllmZHI...
That's the fundamental problems they think we don't know, about shipping cost price, they are profiteering.
EMS is a lot more expensive than HK Bulk Post which must be around the world's cheapest. I found this price page but I don't know what the currency unit is.
http://www.ems.com.cn/serviceguide/e-zi-fei-biao-zhun.html
It would seem to cost either 295 or 355 currency units to send 1kg to Greece. I presume the price is in Renimbi/Yuan but may be in internal non-convertible Chinese currency. 335 Yuan works out as US$53
The numbers from my light tests are always to be found here.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApkFM37n_QnRdDU5MDNzOURjYllmZHI...
I always choose EMS (even on DX) instead of HKP even if it's more expensive. It is fast and I always get the package (for example, my last order on DX was split in two by their choice, EMS package arrived 5 days after they sent it, HKP package hasn't arrived yet, two months after send date...).
The "way" to minimize EMS cost is to make less - bigger - orders, in DX sometimes it costs even $0 to choose EMS on bigger orders ($150 - $200).
Anyhow, SW doesn't even have HKP option and their quotation (I guess the cheapest alternative) was with EMS.
Let a flooder be my wife and a thrower be my mistress
Don't think so. Currently I'm talking to them for some parts. They give me prices for HKP I think.I have three samples:
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Quantity Unit Weight Total Weight
(PCS) (Kg) (Kg)
1 0.115 0.115
0.115+0.1
Post costs $6.72
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Quantity Unit Weight Total Weight
(PCS) (Kg) (Kg)
3 0.115 0.345
0.345+0.2
Post costs $13.07
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Quantity Unit Weight Total Weight
(PCS) (Kg) (Kg)
6 0.033 0.198
3 0.036 0.108
1 0.035 0.035
3 0.115 0.345
Sum 0.686+0.3
Post costs $20.53
Don't know why they have put additional +0.3 kg. It might be the packaging. I think I'll have to ask.
I hope you got a clue how they calculate postage prices. It looks like $30 per kilo.