I got a $25 Amazon card as a gift, and since my current headlamp is being held together with twists of wire around the fractured plastic (one of those cheap 3AAA models), it was both justifiable and guilt-free from a financial viewpoint.
I ordered one the day I made the original post, and it arrived today. So I’m good, but I see the price has gone up five bucks since I posted the deal. Still a pretty good price.
eBay sellers do that kind of thing all the time. Because ebays system is really dumb. You can’t just temporarily say an items out of stock, you have to remove the listing. Then when you remove it, you loose all the sales attached to the listing, and potentially have to pay new listing fees again. Extreme price hiking is another way of saying this item is out of stock.
This Amazon seller has a few other heavily discounted items as well. Sunwayman T60cs for $80 shipped and M30r for $60 shipped. I couldn’t resist the T60cs
That T60s is a sweet deal at $80, but I’ve already got a good thrower and the wife would be very unhappy if I succumbed to flashaholicism… I’m already a borderline hoarder, combining the two would be a disaster. A well-lit disaster, but a disaster nonetheless.