Experiences with budget suppliers

For me Dealextreme has been pretty good - just don’t order from them in the Christmas rush or Chinese New Year. QualityChinaGoods used to be my supplier of choice, but not so cheap these days. KaiDomain has been very, very slow but reliable till my last order which they got wrong. Never had an error from QCG but they were pretty slow. KD is always very slow, DX can be quick.
But I live in Europe, not the USA so wonder if others experiences differ.

Thanks for the experiences!

For newcomers, the following abbreviation apply:

DX = Dealextreme ( http://dealextreme.com )

KD = Kaidomain ( http://kaidomain.com )

GCG = Qualitychinagoods ( http://qualitychinagoods.com )


By the way, on this forum it's perfectly acceptable to post direct links to the products or sites that you are discussing, as long as you don't spam the forum with junk. I'll try not to be an iron-fisted moderator.

would it be OK for members to-add the names of other budget sellers that they know of that are not already mentioned and build up a list of suppliers giving us better choice

Barrie

Yes please, that would be a big help! In fact, I could even add a ranking "5 star" system.


Let's put each dealer in it's own thread.

GoldenGadgets.com Home Page

Would you like to create a new thread for each of those too? I'll get around to putting a 5-star voting module on here sometime soon.

7dayshop.com UK only

Oops, sorry, wasn't clear on that. Could you make a new post so each dealer has its own thread? Just click the "New topic" button here in this forum: http://budgetlightforum.cz.cc/forum/marketplace/dealers

Thanks for helping with the list.

sorry man I'm not the brightest with these things i think i got it right this time

Sure thing, thanks for the help. Keep 'em coming please!

OK everyone, I have the 5-star rating sytem working, please give it a shot and let me know of any bugs you find. I have enabled it for the budget dealers listed so far in this forum.


From now on your posts can contain the voting widget, please use it mainly for budget dealer ratings and individual flashlight reviews. Notice the menu option "Fivestar" below the editor window when you make a new post, and enable it if you want.

Enjoy!

its all shaping up very nicely thank you for the hard work and the site

I'm glad to learn about other places, especially other places that I know what I'm gettting in to. Thanks to all for their recommendations.

I have experiences with a seller (www.hkequipment.net), pretty good, but it is hard to classified this to a budget seller.

As I know, only a few budget lights in there and price is a bit higher may be about $2-3 from others.

I like them because two things :
a) their shipping really fast to my country, other tooks about 15-25 days, they can do it just for 8-10days. It seem that they pay more on stamp cost. I ordered from DX, it has been 7 days, my order still in process at Hongkong Post. Ordered from CQG on Feb 26, shipped on March 1, just leave HK on March 9.
b) on some branded flash, their price is less than others

Manafont seems good, glad found it.

I don't know if the hobby chargers do this, but a lot of NiMH chargers use pulse charging where they charge at a high pulse rate and then back off. This is supposed to be good for breaking up the crystals (or whatever) that cause memory problems and reduce battery capacity, and also gives a cleaner signal that the battery is full. But if you sustained that pulse the battery would get too hot.