The conclusion is still that either these crappy lights are fake or Romisen (Mingxing Dongli Electronic Co., Ltd.) the whole company is in fact now a "fake", mostly copying Ultrafire and Trustfire designs using substandard parts. If I gave a crap I would have checked it out when i was at Romisen a few weeks ago but I had far more interesting things to do than checking for some lousy fake flashlights, maybe next time.
Yup , same here. I bought 2 of romisen flashlight from ebay the last 2 weeks and both of them turn out to be fake. I'm so pissed of. Wasting my time waiting.
This light, the RC-R5, is 100% genuine Romisen (read above). I've got two of these, one from KD and the other from ebay and they are absolutely the same. Both of them came in a typical Romisen cardbox (like this or this or this) with the model nr and battery usage printed on a sticker and a small black circle indicating the color.
Low quality and Romisen can very well go hand in hand, just have a look at the very sucky RC-F7 (which can be found on their site, too).
KD is notorious for low quality lights, ebay light are mostly fake. You get what you pay for, do i need to say that again?
It seems like you haven't got a real quality romisen. Try get one from shiningbeam.com or even on dealextreme, then compare them to the fake ones you got.
Looks like I ignited a sh&# storm! Everybody duck!!!! Honestly, I've only owned maybe 4 Romisens ever. Why I call this a fake is because it's not even close in quality to the others I've owned and seen, and because it's sooooooooooooooooo DIM! I mean... give me a break... If that even is an XP-G in there, it must be like - an A2 bin or something!!! I'm not buying it... sorry.... Maybe I should take some current draw readings... if it is an XP-G, it would have to be driven at ~300mA.... It's that freakin' dim!!
Well, I mean... I bought it... well, you get what I meant! :D This thing SUCKS!!!!
Not to mention - NO MODE MEMORY!!! It just comes on in the next mode - no matter what. You could wait 3 days and it will still remember and come on in the very next mode in line... It's like the lotto -you'll never know what you get when you turn this sucker on...
Update - right after writing that last post, I decided to pick it up and play with it... The switch broke within seconds! It now only comes on in high if I repeatedly click the switch! What a piece of GARBAGE!
Sometimes I wonder if some chinese sellers (and others) buy "seconds" from manufacturers and sell them as "new". The romisen I bought was a P O S fake or not. You usually get what you pay for or lesser quality than what you paid for.
You keep buying cheap craps at cheap prices from cheap online places, you end up with only cheap romisen flashlights <<< i have learned that lesson very well. Do you? or maybe all you have are fake ones so nothing to compare.
I don't care if you have 100 romisens if all of them are fake.
If they can make a fake flashlight, don't you think it's hard to make a white card box with the model nr and battery usage printed on a sticker and a small black circle indicating the color ??
man you are so quick on judging things.
I hope everyone reading my post please don't make the same mistake as i do. I listened phlowcus on the 12th post in this thread about he doesn't believe in fake romisen theory and order 2 romisen flashlight from ebay, WRONG MISTAKE. Both of them are fake and i do have the real one from DX to compare. One is a ok copy and the other is just crap (thread not even anodized) . The dead giveaway is the color of the orange bezel and switch, seem to be a washed out orange compare to the real one, the switch sound different when click on/off.