+1. I keep thinking "WTF?" that was a great 3 x AA light. With so few of these around and apparently a pretty good following on BLF and CPF, why would they stop manufacturing them??
According to HKE production was indeed stopped on this model. Maybe the cost of manufacturing this fine piece of light wasn't cost effective for what they could get for it. Only Ultrafire knows for sure and they haven't spoken up. Maybe they will get the hint and restart production but we are really only a tiny piece of the market and probably not worth the tooling and effort.
There are still some pieces on eBay (expensive at 52$) and TaoBao (at BestInOne's seller there, not sure if they actually have any in stock), and Ultrafire's shop allows to buy it so maybe they some in stock.
Missed it because I wasn't online last night... I would love to order one of these (for myself, sure that too) for a friend of mine who needs a flashlight, but I wouldn't quite trust with 18650s. The C88 would have been a good choice for him, and I would have jumped on this offer.
Good guess. Since it was such a short run, price per piece was closer to $28 plus a couple hundred for shipping...figure right at $30/ea, shipped to me.
Anyone want to drop nine grand on flashlights ? Anyone ?