Haha yeah. My buddy asked for advice on getting a flashlight (don’t you love that?) and after I have him some ideas (i.e. Emisar D18), he sends this link for a little 90,000 lumen flashlight from Amazon for $20
Meanwhile I went out for a walk with my Imalent MS18 tonight and the thing is massive and… $600
I had an interesting talk with Vapcell yesterday. It seems Vapcell is one (or maybe even the one and only) exclusive reseller of this powerful Samsung 50S battery. Samsung is apparently forbidding direct distribution of its 50S battery, i.e. it will probably not appear as bare battery like 30T or 40T in known battery retailer shops. :-( Since all Samsung batteries can be traced back by their serial number it would be a bad idea for a retailer to illegally sell the naked battery to customers, facing severe consequences in their business relationship. Let's hope Samsung will change their mind eventually.
I also hoped LG Chemicals new H50 battery to be a direct competitor to Samsung's 50S battery. According to Vapcell the H50 turned out to be as good as Samsung's 50G but not as good as the 50S. (picture borrowed from mysku.ru)
Yeah but I mean, Vapcell is obviously biased toward themselves. IFAIK Samsung and others have always forbidden direct sale of cells, but maybe they put more effort into preventing that since the LG exploding cells thing early 2020. I noticed that recently Nkon added the 50G and they are not with the original wrap (yet are sold and appear as new), they probably had to find alternative sources for them (when I contacted them in September they couldn’t find any source for them), hopefully the will be able to find alternative source for the 50S too.
Just sent an email to EVVA Tech regarding the possibility of lowering the MOQ to 50pcs. And if set at 100pcs (or 50pcs), the total cost including shipping to Los Angeles. Let’s see what they say…
Exactly. The actual hope is that a shop such as Illumn is willing to take notice and help push this along. I am merely fishing for ballpark cost. And maybe a sample pair