I got them already and tested them out. Now they are installed in the small “600lm” flashlights. I think they are genuine Crees. Their tints are good. The light output are good also. I tested their light output on my home made IS. It is not calibrated so I cannot give the accurate lumen values. However, relatively, they are very good. For example, the reading from a Convoy C8 at highest brightness is 20000 lux from the IS. The two small ones with the replaced LEDs gave me 9000 lux with 14500 and 3000 with AA. Conservatively, I would divide 30 to get the lumen number but again it is not calibrated. (Edit: I made the dividing factor wrong. It should be 30, instead of 300. Corrected.)
Good to have a warning. They are too cheap to be true.
Nonetheless, I have been using a non-Cree AAA twisty light from eBay from 5 years ago. I put some dx tape on the lens, an it's a great little bedside light my wife used. No modes, just on off. And with the tape a pretty smooth beam.
But Iwouldn't like to have as my edc.
These things are cheap nowadays anyway. To make it clear, my sk68s were from Amazon and DX at $3.5 to $4.5, not from GB.
Bought this item, and it came in brown but I took it apart and its a real cree. I wish I hadn’t lost it. Cost the same as an SK68 but it uses a 18650 battery and does cool white.
Are you sure? Can you post a photo? Many of them shows as Cree on the base plate but actually not.
I lost the flashlight, I have a side pic of it… but it won’t help to identify since its too blurry. At this price its probably fake, but I didn’t know they’d put so much work into a fake light. I was looking at the ultra fire site to identify the flashlight but I didn’t find it. Want it anyway?
Never mind if you don’t have it. I was just curious.
I have several of these lights, my versions all have real Cree XPE inside them. But they were bought before the cree-fake-craziness, can’t guarantee these new ones would be the same.
Do you know what size of the driver it fits? I am looking for one of the cheap Ebay flashlights for testing LEDs and 17mm drivers. Right now, what I have cannot do both that well. sk68 uses 14mm drivers, I think, Ultrafire SH98 and E17 uses 20mm driver. I can use them to test LED with no problem but cannot really test 17mm drivers. P60 cannot test LED because it has to put the reflector on in order to turn it on.
All I need is a flashlight with a pill that can accept 17mm drivers. If it can easily access the LED from the front will be even better. There are quite a few of 18650 flashlight on Ebay for about $3 but e.g. this and this but I don’t know if they accept 17mm drivers for my purpose. Hope somebody can help so I don’t have to by something useless even though they are cheap. Thanks in advance.
If you’re using this for testing as you say then this may just be the one you want.
It does use 17mm driver, 16mm LED base, and better still you can remove the zoom and reinsert the pill only - bare LED straightaway accessible for whatever tests you need to do.
The brown one is here for $3.34 shipped
14500 Cree T6 for only $3.34. Looks interesting for the price
One of the photos included seems to shwo a damaged O ring.
Looks like a charging port cover. I hate those, always flopping open.
i am quite sure all(ot) of the cheapos have a Latticebright (aka fake Cree) LED in them… 
we should be a responsible forum and point that out in case uneducated people reading here…
Thanks. I will get one to try.
I guess this is the same flashlight Pulsar13 was talking about?
Can this flashligjt get an AA battery and work? or it is only for 14500 battery.
The listing only mentions a 14500 battery. Being so cheap it’s probably got a fake LED. I’ve not bought one.
I received this flashlight today and it doesnt work with any of the 3 batteries I have. So I opened it up and its got a Cree xpe looks genuine. Of course nowhere near 2500 lumens by a long shot even if it was an xml. Lol. Where do they get these numbers? So I emailed the seller amd he can refund or send me another. I asked if he can send me a different light of equal value. The side button feels cheesy. Id rather have a standard driver so I picked an 18650 zoomie. I hope he can send me that different light.