I was just browsin' new stuff on HK equipment and found this titanium beast,at a whopping 469.00 not budget by far but cool nonetheless.Although unique,I couldn't help but feel I have seen this before.I did more poking around and found it is a copy of a company called cool fall and it's called spy 007.Did niteye commission this through them or is it a blatant rip-off?Maybe someone knows a bit more about this and can make sense of the clone deal.Conversely,I'd love to have this just not at that price.
You can find the company and owner on CPF, a well regarded member and light builder. I don’t own one, just really
an admirer of he’s hand built lights. Its a really a difficult market to keep your ideas from showing up
om someone else’s show room. As nice as the copy looks i would save the extra money
and get the real thing if i were in the market.
This copy has opened a whole bag of worms on CPL (post 7). Specifically, Sysmax have disassociated themselves from Niteye, calling them rip-off artists who stole the SPY design, and their own ring control. Niteye, post 59, in turn, are claiming that they actually own Jetbeam, and that Sysmax are simply a seller of Jetbeam .
Jetbeam even put up a warning pop-up on their web
Oddly enough I don’t have $460 for the copy, or $1200 for the original, so I’ll pass on the whole thing.
I’m still waiting for an inexpensive Chinese clone of this light.
haha Johnny. that's totally BFL spirit!
:D
it also means that we buyers didnt care about who rips off whom. only price matters. lol
Yes and no. There is no way in hell I’d ever pay $1200 for the real thing. If I bought a cheap clone for under $100 someone else who never saw the light might see it who were never exposed to a Spy and want the real thing and go buy it. Kinda like free advertising. I can’t believe it took so long for someone to steal the design.
Look up on the cost of raw 6AL4V then re-adjust the minimum price you wish to pay.
Damn that is expensive. Make it out of stainless and sell it for less.
Glad I don’t like it :bigsmile:
[quote=DARCANGEL I did more poking around and found it is a copy of a company called cool fall and it’s called spy 007.Did niteye commission this through them or is it a blatant rip-off[/quote]
As the saying goes in China.
” We’re not copying…………. it’s coincidence ”
lol :bigsmile:
I saw all the hubbub in CPF but NiteEye removed it from there site before I got to see the clone. If I was rich I’d buy the spy007, but lotto max never comes through for me 
Thanks for posting, that’s one clone I wouldn’t buy on principle.
As for the other nockoffs, keep em coming
Dang!I stumbled into a flashlight politics nightmare.I was further reading the whole sysmax,jetbeam,niteye thing and wow,what a mess.Jetbeam is obviously not pleased with niteye and was quick to denounce any affiliation.I think the spy 007 owns a unique corner of the market and should not worry too much,there are tons of clones of just about every light.
No worries, I appreciate the info. There’s some lights that shouldn’t be copied. For me that’s any custom light made by a flashaholic. 
As for manufacturers, well that’s why the have lawyers and patents
There, they’re, their
Hey, i hear some one copied your 3up heat sink…
Was that a pain in the ar!!!..Thanks to you i own the heaviest C2, and damn bright….Thank You…
I have contacted my sales rep at Sysmax to see if she can sort this out a bit for us.
Each of us have our own line and our own there
http://www.jet-beam.com/links/default.aspx
“Earnest declarations: SYSMAX Ind.(the sole owner of NITECORE & JETBEAM) and Niteye are NOT the same enterprise. As a famous flashlights manufactory and a member of PLATO, we SYSMAX feel shame about the counterfeit of SPY007 and the copied design of selector ring. At the same time, we strongly condemned the plagiarism from Niteye.”
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It seems that it is not the 1st time that niteye found inspiration in competitors products:
The reason why they look so much alike is that they had the same designer, he sold them slightly different plans, I think the did fences aside from slight asthetic differences are reflector and style of control ring.